12–14 Sept 2011
AlbaNova main building
Europe/Stockholm timezone

The cosmological implications of massive clusters

13 Sept 2011, 16:45
45m
FD51 (AlbaNova main building)

FD51

AlbaNova main building

Roslagstullsbacken 21 Stockholm

Speaker

Ben Hoyle

Description

The existence of high redshift massive clusters is a good test of cosmology, because the theoretical cluster mass function is well known from simulations. After a brief overview of the history of this test, I describe the tension these clusters cause with LCDM and possible explanations.

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