Southern Galaxy Clusters: Surveys and Target Lists for ACT
Jack Hughes
Rutgers University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
136 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ
USA
SZE References:
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Microwave Sky Simulations and Projections for Galaxy Cluster Detection with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
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The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
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Relativistic Corrections to the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect for Clusters of Galaxies. II. Inclusion of Peculiar Velocities
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Survey and General Cluster References:
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A Complete Sample of 12 Very X-Ray Luminous Galaxy Clusters at z > 0.5
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Chandra Sample of Nearby Relaxed Galaxy Clusters: Mass, Gas Fraction, and Mass-Temperature Relation
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- Pimbblet et al. 2005, MNRAS, 366, 645. The Las Campanas/Anglo-Australian Telescope Rich Cluster Survey - III. Spectroscopic studies of
X-ray bright galaxy clusters at z~ 0.1
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- Fukazawa, Makishima, & Ohashi 2004, PASJ, 56, 965 .
ASCA Compilation of X-Ray Properties of Hot Gas in Elliptical Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters: Two Breaks in the Temperature Dependences
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- Ota & Mitsuda 2004, A&A, 428, 757. A uniform X-ray analysis of 79 distant galaxy clusters with ROSAT and ASCA
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- Bohringer et al. 2004, A&A, 425, 367. The ROSAT-ESO Flux Limited X-ray (REFLEX) Galaxy cluster survey. V. The cluster catalogue
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- Popesso et al. 2004, A&A, 423, 449. RASS-SDSS Galaxy clusters survey. I. The catalog and the correlation of X-ray and optical properties
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- Wu et al. 1999, ApJ, 524, 22. The L_X-T and L_X-Sigma Relationships for Galaxy Clusters Revisited
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- Mullis et al. 2003, ApJ, 594, 154. The 160 Square Degree ROSAT Survey: The Revised Catalog of 201 Clusters with Spectroscopic Redshifts
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- Ikebe et al. 2002, A&A, 383, 773. A new measurement of the X-ray temperature function of clusters of galaxies
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- de Grandi et al. 1999, ApJ, 514, 148. A Flux-limited Sample of Bright Clusters of Galaxies from the Southern Part of the
ROSAT All-Sky Survey: The Catalog and LOG N-LOG S
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Erratum
- Ebeling et al. 1998, MNRAS, 301, 881.
The ROSAT Brightest Cluster Sample - I. The compilation of the sample and the cluster log N-log S distribution
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- Ebeling et al. 1996, MNRAS, 281, 799.
Properties of the X-ray-brightest Abell-type clusters of galaxies (XBACs) from ROSAT All-Sky Survey data - I. The sample
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- Slee, Roy, & Savage 1994, Australian Journal of Physics, 47, 145. A VLA survey of rich
clusters of galaxies. 2: The stronger sources: Maps, polarisations and identifications
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- Edge & Stewart 1991, MNRAS, 252, 414. EXOSAT observations of clusters of galaxies. I - The X-ray data.
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Cluster and other source catalogs:
Summary Listing of Selected Southern Clusters:
RA Dec Redshift LX TX Transists Zenith Visible from ACT
(J2000.0) (10^44 erg) (keV) at midnight at site during night
Name hh mm ss dd mm ss ACT site on ( airmass < 2 )
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Abell 85 00 41 50 -09 18 07 0.0555 5.3 6.5 9-OCT-2007 (26-APR-2007 25-FEB-2008)
Abell 478 04 13 26 +10 27 58 0.090 8.0 6.9 2-DEC-2007 (23-JUN-2007 22-APR-2008)
Abell 3404 06 45 29 -54 13 08 0.1644 7.1 N.A. 9-JAN-2008 (13-JUL-2007 23-JUN-2008)
1ES0657 06 58 31 -55 56 49 0.2965 21.6 17.4 12-JAN-2008 (16-JUL-2007 26-JUN-2008)
Abell 754 09 08 50 -09 38 12 0.0542 3.9 9.0 14-FEB-2008 ( 4-SEP-2007 19-JUL-2008)
Abell 1689 13 11 30 -01 20 07 0.1832 13.1 9.3 17-APR-2007 (24-NOV-2006 9-SEP-2007)
Abell 3558 13 27 58 -31 29 17 0.048 3.1 5.4 21-APR-2007 (18-NOV-2006 23-SEP-2007)
Abell 3571 13 47 28 -32 51 14 0.0391 4.0 6.8 26-APR-2007 (23-NOV-2006 28-SEP-2007)
Abell 2163 16 15 49 -06 09 00 0.203 20.9 13.0 3-JUN-2007 ( 4-JAN-2007 24-OCT-2007)
Abell 3667 20 12 31 -56 49 55 0.0556 5.1 6.3 2-AUG-2007 (16-FEB-2007 24-DEC-2007)
Useful websites:
- ACT is located at Longitude 67:47:13 W (4h31m8.9s); Latitude -22:57:30; and Altitude 5144 m
- Compute Local Apparent Sidereal Time
LST
Last updated: 1 June 2007
Jack Hughes/Rutgers University