MACS: The evolution and properties of massive clusters of galaxies

Details MACS: The evolution and properties of massive clusters of galaxies MACS: The evolution and properties of massive clusters of galaxies

2000-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001320v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures. Oral paper presented at the "Large-Scale Structure in the X-ray Universe" conference, Santorini, September

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We present first results from the MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS), a new large-scale X-ray survey designed to find and characterize very massive, distant clusters of galaxies. Based on X-ray detections in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey, MACS aims to compile a sample of more than 200 X-ray luminous clusters at z>0.3, about 50 times the number of EMSS clusters in the same redshift and luminosity range. The MACS sample is uniquely suited to investigate cluster evolution at redshifts and luminosities poorly sampled by all existing surveys. At the time of writing the MACS sample comprises 41 clusters with measured redshifts of 0.30.3 are scheduled for spectroscopic observation. From a preliminary analysis of a statistically well defined subsample of the 25 X-ray brightest MACS clusters we conclude tentatively that negative evolution is not significant at the highest X-ray luminosities (Lx>10^45 erg/s) out to redshifts of z~0.4. Our findings thus extend the no-evolution result obtained by many serendipitous ROSAT cluster surveys at lower luminosities.

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