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:

Sehgal, Trac, Huffenberger, & Bode 2007, ApJ, 664, 149. Microwave Sky Simulations and Projections for Galaxy Cluster Detection with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope ADS
Birkinshaw 1999, Phys. Rep., 310, 97. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect ADS
Nozawa, Itoh,and Kohyama, 1998, ApJ, 508, 17. Relativistic Corrections to the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect for Clusters of Galaxies. II. Inclusion of Peculiar Velocities ADS

Survey and General Cluster References:

Ebeling et al. 2007, ApJ, 661, L33. A Complete Sample of 12 Very X-Ray Luminous Galaxy Clusters at z > 0.5 ADS
Vikhlinin et al. 2006, ApJ, 640, 691. Chandra Sample of Nearby Relaxed Galaxy Clusters: Mass, Gas Fraction, and Mass-Temperature Relation ADS
Burenin et al. 2006, arXiv:astro-ph/0610739. The 400 square degrees ROSAT PSPC galaxy cluster survey: Catalog and statistical calibration ADS
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 ADS
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 ADS
Ota & Mitsuda 2004, A&A, 428, 757. A uniform X-ray analysis of 79 distant galaxy clusters with ROSAT and ASCA ADS
Bohringer et al. 2004, A&A, 425, 367. The ROSAT-ESO Flux Limited X-ray (REFLEX) Galaxy cluster survey. V. The cluster catalogue ADS
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 ADS
Wu et al. 1999, ApJ, 524, 22. The L_X-T and L_X-Sigma Relationships for Galaxy Clusters Revisited ADS
Mullis et al. 2003, ApJ, 594, 154. The 160 Square Degree ROSAT Survey: The Revised Catalog of 201 Clusters with Spectroscopic Redshifts ADS
Ikebe et al. 2002, A&A, 383, 773. A new measurement of the X-ray temperature function of clusters of galaxies ADS
Reiprich & Bohringer 2002, ApJ, 567, 716. The Mass Function of an X-Ray Flux-limited Sample of Galaxy Clusters ADS
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 ADS 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 ADS
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 ADS
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 ADS
Edge & Stewart 1991, MNRAS, 252, 414. EXOSAT observations of clusters of galaxies. I - The X-ray data. ADS

Cluster and other source catalogs:

X-ray clusters (from NED), ACT strip 2008 html region file
All clusters (from NED), ACT strip 2008 text listing
X-ray sources (from NED), ACT strip 2008 text listing
XMM X-ray sources (XMM2i catalog drawn from 4117 EPIC observations made between 2000 February 3 and 2008 March 28), ACT strip 2008 region file

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 )
  ----------- ---------- ---------- -------- ------------ ---------  ----------------  ------------------------
  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:

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Last updated: 1 June 2007

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