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Cluster-Void Degeneracy Breaking: Dark Energy, Planck and the Largest Cluster & Void

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arxiv 1511.04075 v2 pith:NE3PMBXF submitted 2015-11-12 astro-ph.CO gr-qc

Cluster-Void Degeneracy Breaking: Dark Energy, Planck and the Largest Cluster & Void

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Combining galaxy cluster and void abundances breaks the degeneracy between mean matter density $\Omega_{\rm m}$ and power spectrum normalization $\sigma_8$. In a first for voids, we constrain $\Omega_{\rm m} = 0.21 \pm 0.10$ and $\sigma_8 = 0.95 \pm 0.21$ for a flat $\Lambda$CDM universe, using extreme-value statistics on the claimed largest cluster and void. The Planck-consistent results detect dark energy with two objects, independently of other dark energy probes. Cluster-void studies also offer complementarity in scale, density, and non-linearity - of particular interest for testing modified-gravity models.

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