Evolution in the X-ray Cluster Luminosity Function Revisited

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1996-11-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9611182v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

20 pages, 11 figures. Latex. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Table 1 of paper is available from http://astro.uchicago.edu/h

Scientific paper

10.1086/304061

(Shortened Abstract) We present new X-ray data taken from the ROSAT PSPC pointing archive for 21 clusters in the Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS). We have supplemented these data with new optical follow-up observations found in the literature and overall, 32 of the original 67 z>0.14 EMSS clusters now have new information. Using this improved EMSS sample, we have re-determined the EMSS X-ray Cluster Luminosity Function as a function of redshift. We have removed potential mis-classifications and included our new measurements of the clusters X-ray luminosities and redshifts. We find similar luminosity functions to those originally presented by Henry etal (1992); albeit with two important differences. First, we show that the original low redshift EMSS luminosity function is insufficiently constrained. Secondly, the power law shape of our new determination of the high redshift EMSS luminosity function (z=0.3 to 0.6) has a shallower slope than that seen by Henry etal. We have quantified the degree of evolution seen in the X-ray cluster luminosity using several statistical tests. The most restrictive analysis indicates that our low and high redshift EMSS luminosity functions are statistically different at only the 95% level. However, other tests indicate that these luminosity functions differ by as little as one sigma. These data are therefore, consistent with no evolution in the X-ray cluster luminosity function out to z=0.5.

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