Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-09-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
A&A accepted, 14 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables. The first cluster catalogue with the X-ray-optical overlay and fitted spectra fo
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361/201117498
We present a catalogue of X-ray selected galaxy clusters and groups as a first release of the 2XMMi/SDSS Galaxy Cluster Survey. The survey is a search for galaxy clusters detected serendipitously in observations with XMM-Newton in the footprint of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The main aims of the survey are to identify new X-ray galaxy clusters, investigate their X-ray scaling relations, identify distant cluster candidates and study the correlation of the X-ray and optical properties. In this paper we describe the basic strategy to identify and characterize the X-ray cluster candidates that currently comprise 1180 objects selected from the second XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue (2XMMi-DR3). Cross-correlation of the initial catalogue with recently published optically selected SDSS galaxy cluster catalogues yields photometric redshifts for 275 objects. Of these, 182 clusters have at least one member with a spectroscopic redshift from existing public data (SDSS-DR8). Here we present the X-ray properties of the first cluster sample which comprises 175 clusters, among which 139 objects are new X-ray discoveries while the others were previously known as X-ray sources. The first cluster sample from the survey covers a wide range of redshifts from 0.09 to 0.61, bolometric luminosities L_500 = 1.9 x 10^42 - 1.2 x 10^45 erg/s, and masses M_500 = 2.3 x 10^13 - 4.9 x 10^14 Msun. We extend the relation between the X-ray bolometric luminosity L_500 and the X-ray temperature towards significantly lower T and L and still find that the slope of the linear L-T relation is consistent with values published for high luminosities.
Lamer Georg
Schwope Axel
Takey Ali
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