Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-03-20
Astrophys.J. 645 (2006) 955-976
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
64 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/504457
We present a survey of serendipitous extended X-ray sources and optical cluster candidates from the Chandra Multi-wavelength Project (ChaMP). Our main goal is to make an unbiased comparison of X-ray and optical cluster detection methods. In 130 archival Chandra pointings covering 13 square degrees, we use a wavelet decomposition technique to detect 55 extended sources, of which 6 are nearby single galaxies. Our X-ray cluster catalog reaches a typical flux limit of about ~10^-14 erg s^-1 cm^-2, with a median cluster core radius of 21 arcsec. For 56 of the 130 X-ray fields, we use the ChaMP's deep NOAO/4m MOSAIC g, r, and i imaging to independently detect cluster candidates using a Voronoi tessellation and percolation (VTP) method. Red-sequence filtering decreases the galaxy fore/background contamination and provides photometric redshifts to z~0.7. From the overlapping 6.1 square degree X-ray/optical imaging, we find 115 optical clusters (of which 11% are in the X-ray catalog) and 28 X-ray clusters (of which 46% are in the optical VTP catalog). The median redshift of the 13 X-ray/optical clusters is 0.41, and their median X-ray luminosity (0.5-2 keV) is L_X=(2.65\pm0.19)x10^43 ergs s^-1. The clusters in our sample that are only detected in our optical data are poorer on average (~4sigma) than the X-ray/optically matched clusters, which may partially explain the difference in the detection fractions.
Barkhouse Wayne A.
Burenin Rodion
Cameron Robert
Green Paul J.
Jannuzi Buell Tomasson
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