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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 360, Issue 4, Pages 1393-1400Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09140.x
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galaxies : clusters : general; galaxies : formation; cosmology : theory; large-scale structure of Universe
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We use the non-linear spherical model in cold dark matter (CDM) cosmologies with dark energy to investigate the effects of dark energy on the growth of structure and the formation of virialized structures. We consider dark energy models with a constant equation-of-state parameter w. For -1 < w < -1/3, clusters form earlier and are more concentrated in quintessence than in Lambda CDM models, but they form later and are less concentrated than in the corresponding open model with the same matter density and no dark energy. We point out some confusion in the literature around the expression of the collapse factor (ratio of the radius of the sphere at virialization to that at turnaround) derived from the virial theorem. We use the Sheth & Tormen extension of the Press-Schechter framework to calculate the evolution of the cluster abundance in different models and show the sensitivity of the cluster abundance to both the amplitude of the mass fluctuations, sigma(8), and the sigma(8)-w normalization, selected to match either the cosmic microwave background observations or the abundance of X-ray clusters.
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