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    Constraining the neutrino mass with the CSST galaxy clusters

    Mingjing Chen and Wenjuan Fang*

    Yufei Zhang

    Zhonglue Wen†

    Weiguang Cui

    • College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Leshan Normal University, Leshan 614000, People’s Republic of China

    • CAS Key Laboratory of FAST, NAOC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People’s Republic of China and National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, People’s Republic of China

    • *Contact author: wjfang@ustc.edu.cn
    • †Contact author: zhonglue@nao.cas.cn

    Phys. Rev. D 112, 063506 – Published 5 September, 2025

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/t821-6gr8

    Abstract

    With the advent of next-generation surveys, constraints on cosmological parameters are anticipated to become more stringent, particularly for the total neutrino mass. This study forecasts such constraints utilizing galaxy clusters from the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST). Employing Fisher matrix techniques, we derive the constraint σ(Mν) from cluster number counts, cluster power spectrum, and their combination. The investigation covers both the standard cosmological model with massive neutrinos νΛCDM and the inclusion of dynamical dark energy in the νw0waCDM model, revealing a minor impact of dark energy on neutrino mass constraints. We examine the largest source of systematic arising from the mass-observable relation uncertainties and find that, with perfect knowledge of the scaling relation parameters, CSST clusters have the potential to enhance precision, tightening constraints to ∼0.03  eV. We also study the effects of the maximum redshift zmax and other uncertainties, including those in redshift, halo mass function, and bias. Furthermore, we emphasize the significance of accounting for the growth-induced scale-dependent bias effect, which we find can tighten the final constraint by a factor of 1.2–2.2.

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