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大质量星系团巡天中最亮的星系团的X射线

The X-ray brightest clusters of galaxies from the Massive Cluster Survey

H. Ebeling, A. C. Edge, A. Mantz, E. Barrett, J. P. Henry, C. J. Ma, L. van Speybroeck

摘要:

我们提供了在大规模星系团巡天(MACS)中检测到的非常X射线发光的星系团的统计完整样本。第二次MACS发布包括ROSAT亮源目录中所有34个标称X射线通量超过2x 10 ^(-12)erg/s/cm ^2(0.1-2.4 keV)的MACS星团;其中三分之二是新发现的。这个子集的红移范围从0.3到0.5,补充了2007年发表的12个最遥远的MACS星团(z>0.5)的完整样本,并进一步证实了X射线选择对汇编本质上大质量的星系团样本的有效性。钱德拉/ACIS的广泛的后续观察导致另外三个MACS集群候选者被淘汰为(主要)X射线点源。对于另外四个集群-然而,仍然在我们的34个样本中-点源污染被发现约为50%。在这个子样本中,星系团的X射线亮度中值为1.3x10^45 erg/s(0.1-2.4 keV,钱德拉,在r_500范围内),这表明MACS的巡天策略有能力找到最极端、最稀有的星系团,直到出现显著的红移。在此版本中,所有簇的光学和X射线数据的比较发现了广泛的形态,没有明显的偏向于松弛或合并系统。

英文摘要:

We present a statistically complete sample of very X-ray luminous galaxy clusters detected in the MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS). This second MACS release comprises all 34 MACS clusters with nominal X-ray fluxes in excess of 2x10^(-12) erg/s/cm^2 (0.1-2.4 keV) in the ROSAT Bright Source Catalogue; two thirds of them are new discoveries. Extending over the redshift range from 0.3 to 0.5, this subset complements the complete sample of the 12 most distant MACS clusters (z>0.5) published in 2007 and further exemplifies the efficacy of X-ray selection for the compilation of samples of intrinsically massive galaxy clusters. Extensive follow-up observations with Chandra/ACIS led to three additional MACS cluster candidates being eliminated as (predominantly) X-ray point sources. For another four clusters --- which, however, remain in our sample of 34 --- the point-source contamination was found to be about 50%. The median X-ray luminosity of 1.3x10^45 erg/s (0.1-2.4 keV, Chandra, within r_500) of the clusters in this subsample demonstrates the power of the MACS survey strategy to find the most extreme and rarest clusters out to significant redshift. A comparison of the optical and X-ray data for all clusters in this release finds a wide range of morphologies with no obvious bias in favour of either relaxed or merging systems.

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