Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-10-06
Astrophys.J. 566 (2002) 744-770
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted to ApJ, 32 pages, 8 figures, uses emulateapj5.sty, for associated data table see http://casa.colorado.edu/~lewisad/
Scientific paper
10.1086/324139
The complete ensemble of Einstein Imaging Proportional Counter (IPC) X-ray images has been re-processed and re-analyzed using a multi-aperture source detection algorithm. A catalog of 772 new source candidates detected within the central regions of the 1435 IPC fields comprising the Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS) has been compiled. By comparison, 478 EMSS sources fall within the same area of sky. A randomly-selected subsample of 133 fields was first examined. We found that most of these sources are either the summation of two or more lower count rate point sources that fall within the larger detection apertures or are single point sources, while \leq 2.3% of the full catalog of sources are extrapolated to be actual distant (z > 0.14) clusters whose extended X-ray structure kept them from being detected in the EMSS despite having sufficient total flux. We then constructed other subsamples specifically selected to contain those X-ray sources most likely to be clusters. Both a database search and an optical imaging campaign have found several new distant clusters, setting a firm lower limit on the number of new clusters in the entire catalog. We estimate that the original EMSS cluster sample is 72-83% complete. We update the Henry et al. 1992 EMSS distant cluster sample with more recent information, and use the redshifts and X-ray luminosities for these new EMSS clusters to compute a revised X-ray Luminosity Function (XLF). The addition of these new high-z, high-L_X clusters to the EMSS is sufficient to remove the requirement for ``negative'' evolution at high-L_X out to z~0.5. We conclude that the EMSS has systematically missed clusters of low surface brightness.
Ellingson Erica E.
Gaidos Eric J.
Lewis Aaron D.
Stocke John T.
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