The representative XMM-Newton cluster structure survey (REXCESS) of an X-ray luminosity selected galaxy cluster sample

By H. Boehringer, P. Schuecker, G. Pratt, M. Arnaud, Trevor J. Ponman, Judith Croston, Stefano Borgani, Richard G. Bower, U. Briel, C. Collins and 24 more. 2007

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Context.The largest uncertainty for cosmological studies using clusters of galaxies is introduced by our limited knowledge of the statistics of galaxy cluster structure, and of the scaling relations between observables and cluster mass.

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SEVEN-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE (WMAP) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION (2010, methodology): “The REXCESS sample contains clusters selected from the ROSAT All-sky Survey (Böhringer et al. 2007).”
NINE-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE (WMAP) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETER RESULTS (2012, background): “This may be caused by sample differences: the UPP is the median of a particular X-ray cluster sample, “REXCESS,” derived from the ROSAT All-sky Survey (Böhringer et al. 2007).”
Towards a realistic population of simulated galaxy groups and clusters (2013, methodology): “…entropy profile from Pratt et al. (2010), derived from REXCESS – a representative sample of 33 clusters derived from a flux-limited parent sample (Böhringer et al. 2007), whereas the black right-facing triangles represent the sample of Vikhlinin et al. (2006), who targeted relaxed, cool core…”
Probing cosmic isotropy with a new X-ray galaxy cluster sample through the LX–T scaling relation (2020, methodology): “It has been shown though that the ROSAT LX values are fully consistent with the ones from XMM-Newton within the ROSAT LX uncertainties (Böhringer et al. 2007; Zhang et al. 2011) (see Appendix A.9 for further tests) Our estimates for the cluster X-ray luminosities used the reported X-ray…”
Gas entropy in a representative sample of nearby X-ray galaxy clusters (REXCESS): relationship to gas mass fraction (2009, methodology): “In the present paper we re-investigate the entropy with REXCESS (Böhringer et al. 2007), a representative sample of 33 local (z < 0.2) clusters drawn from the REFLEX catalogue (Böhringer et al. 2004), all of which have been observed with XMM-Newton.”
INTRACLUSTER MEDIUM ENTROPY PROFILES FOR A CHANDRA ARCHIVAL SAMPLE OF GALAXY CLUSTERS (2009, background): “Nevertheless, flux-limited samples do suffer from some inadequacies and further study of a carefully selected sample of clusters, chosen either from our own archival sample or using representative, rather than complete, samples such as REXCESS (Böhringer et al. 2007), may be warranted.”
The universal galaxy cluster pressure profile from a representative sample of nearby systems (REXCESS) and the Y-SZ-M-500 relation (2009, methodology): “The REXCESS data set A description of theREXCESS sample, includingXMM-Newton observation details, can be found in Böhringer et al. (2007).”
The MCXC: a meta-catalogue of x-ray detected clusters of galaxies (2010, background): “ROSAT-derived catalogues still play a major role in providing targets for deeper observation with the current generation of X-ray instruments (e.g., Böhringer et al. 2007; Vikhlininet al. 2009), and for identification of existing clusters in new surveys in other wavelength bands (e.g., Popesso et…”
THE PSEUDO-EVOLUTION OF HALO MASS (2012, background): “Large observational campaigns have been undertaken in the past (Vikhlinin et al. 2006; Böhringer et al. 2007; Mantz et al. 2010) and are also currently under way (e.g.Benson et al. 2013) to calibrate these scaling relations since they are necessary to obtain cosmological constraints from the…”
Planck intermediate results: V. Pressure profiles of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (2012, unknown): “A10 have ﬁtted this analytical proﬁle to a combination of observed pressure proﬁles derived for the REXCESS sample (Böhringer et al. 2007) from high quality XMM-Newton data, together with three sets of predicted proﬁles from numerical simulations of structure formation implementing DM and baryon…”
LoCuSS: comparison of observed X-ray and lensing galaxy cluster scaling relations with simulations (2008, background): “…clusters are part of the REFLEX-DXL sample (Zhang et al. 2004, 2006; Finoguenov et al. 2005), 12 clusters are from the LoCuSS Pilot Study sample (Zhang et al. 2007), and additionally 6 clusters are from the REXCESS sample (Böhringer et al. 2007; Pratt et al. 2007; Croston et al. 2007) respectively.”
Galaxy cluster X-ray luminosity scaling relations from a representative local sample (REXCESS) (2008, methodology): “…aperture and extrapolated to an assumed radius ofR200, and are thus not equivalent to the luminosities derived in this paper (see Böhringer et al. 2004 for luminosity calculation details; the appropriate REFLEX luminosities for theREXCESS sample are given in Table 3 of Böhringer et al. 2007).”
Calibration of the galaxy cluster M-500-Υ-x relation with XMM-Newton (2007, background): “A deeper understanding of the mass scaling relations will come from the X-ray study of larger unbiased samples of local clusters, such as REXCESS (Böhringer et al. 2007), combined with lensing data.”
Galaxy-cluster gas-density distributions of the Representative XMM-Newton Cluster Structure Survey (REXCESS) (2008, background): “Full details of the sample selection function can be found in Böhringer et al. (2007).”
Scaling relations for galaxy clusters in the Millennium-XXL simulation (2012, methodology): “First, the mean tSZ signal for stacks of maxBCG clusters of given optical richness is about half of that predicted by scaling relations derived from the much smaller REXCESS sample for which individual X-ray profiles are available (Böhringer et al. 2007).”