MC-simulation of a galaxy cluster object list

Presenter: Johannes Hölzl

The eROSITA instrument on board of the spacecraft Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma, which will be launched in 2012, will conduct an all-sky survey in X-Rays. A main goal of the survey is the observation of galaxy clusters, which promises further knowledge of dark matter. As input for the simulation of the survey we present a Monte-Carlo simulation generating a list of galaxy clusters. The clusters are distributed according to the mass function by Tinker et al, 2008. The MC-simulation generates the celestial coordinates as well as cluster mass and redshift, from these the observables luminosity and angular diameter are derived.

Jörn Wilms
Ingo Keykenbohm
Christian Schmid
Christoph Großberger
Michael Wille
Wiebke Eikmann