Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...209.7710m&link_type=abstract
2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #77.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, V
Mathematics
Logic
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Scientific paper
The XCS (Romer et al. 2001) is an ambitious program to mine the entire XMM archive for galaxy clusters. It will produce a catalog of several thousand serendipitously-detected clusters in over 500 square degrees and to beyond z=1. A key feature will be X-ray temperatures (TX to within 20%) for any cluster with >500 counts. TX is one of the best observational proxies for cluster mass. The XCS Survey will provide the cluster targets used to calibrate the cluster mass function from redshift 0 to 1. Such a calibration will be vital for the next generation of large-area galaxy cluster surveys.
The NOAO-XCS (NXS) Survey is a homogeneous multi-band optical imaging survey of more than 500 XCS clusters in the northern and southern hemispheres (via KPNO and CTIO). Upon completion in 2008, it will constitute the largest and deepest multiwavelength survey of galaxy clusters. The cluster photometric redshifts will drive the derivation of cosmological parameters as well as the first ever self-consistent measurement of the cluster X-ray luminosity-temperature relationship to z>1. The XCS-NOAO galaxy catalog will probe the evolution of cluster galaxies as a function of cluster mass. The legacy will be a unique dataset for the community to exploit until the next great X-ray observatory.
Hilton Matt
Hosmer Mark
Merhtens N.
Miller Christopher J.
Romer Kathy A.
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