The MCXC: a meta-catalogue of x-ray detected clusters of galaxies

By R. Piffaretti, M. Arnaud, G. Pratt, E. Pointecouteau, Jean-Michel Alimi Service d'Astrophysique CEA-SACLAY, France., Cesr, Service de Physique des Particules CEA-Saclay. 2010

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We present the compilation and properties of a meta-catalogue of X-ray detected clusters of galaxies, the MCXC. This very large catalogue is based on publicly available ROSAT All Sky Survey-based (NORAS, REFLEX, BCS, SGP, NEP, MACS, and CIZA) and serendipitous (160SD, 400SD, SHARC, WARPS, and EMSS) cluster catalogues. Data have been systematically homogenised to an overdensity of 500, and duplicate entries from overlaps between the survey areas of the individual input catalogues are carefully handled. The MCXC comprises 1743 clusters with virtually no duplicate entries. For each cluster the MCXC provides three identifiers, a redshift, coordinates, membership in the original catalogue, and standardised 0.1−2.4 keV band luminosity L500 ,t otal massM500, and radius R500. The meta-catalogue additionally furnishes information on overlaps between the input catalogues and the luminosity ratios when measurements from different surveys are available, and gives notes on individual objects. The MCXC is available in electronic format for maximum usefulness in X-ray, SZ, and other multiwavelength studies.

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RELICS: Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey (2019, background): “We also considered other factors in this selection, including X-ray mass estimates (Mantz et al. 2010; MCXC Piffaretti et al. 2011); weak lensing mass estimates (Sereno 2015 compilation including Weighing the Giants Applegate et al. 2014, von der Linden et al. 2014b; Umetsu et al. 2014; Hoekstra et ”
The pre-launch Planck Sky Model: a model of sky emission at submillimetre to centimetre wavelengths (2012, methodology): “The ROSAT catalogue used in the model is the MetaCatalogue of X-ray detected Clusters of galaxies (MCXC) by Piffaretti et al. (2011).”
redMaPPer. I. ALGORITHM AND SDSS DR8 CATALOG (2013, background): “2+180625.3, the richest redMaPPer cluster not found within the MCXC cluster catalog (Piffaretti et al. 2011), a system with λ = 236±12 at redshift zλ = 0.396± 0.013.”
The SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey (2024, neutral): “To do that, we make use of published X-ray cluster catalogues, including MCXC (Piffaretti et al. 2011), XXL365 (Adami et al. 2018), XCS (Mehrtens et al. 2012), eFEDS (Liu et al. 2022a), and X-CLASS (Clerc et al. 2012).”
GALAXY CLUSTERS DISCOVERED VIA THE SUNYAEV–ZEL’DOVICH EFFECT IN THE FIRST 720 SQUARE DEGREES OF THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE SURVEY (2012, methodology): “We use the redshift and mass estimates reported by Piffaretti et al. (2011), where the masses were estimated from the X-ray luminosity-mass relation.”
The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey (2019, background): “…al. 2019), as sources of extended extragalactic emission at X-ray wavelengths (e.g., Gioia et al. 1990; Böhringer et al. 2004; Ebeling et al. 2010; Piffaretti et al. 2011; Mehrtens et al. 2012; Liu et al. 2015b; Adami et al. 2018; Klein et al. 2019), and via their Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ)…”
Scaling relations for galaxy clusters in the Millennium-XXL simulation (2012, methodology): “To mimic the MCXC, we will use “X-ray flux limited” samples which weight each object by L 3/2 X , since Piffaretti et al. (2011) built the MCXC by combining a number of X-ray surveys, most of which are effectively flux-limited.”
NINE-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE (WMAP) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETER RESULTS (2012, methodology): “22 Note that the relations 2 and 3 are derived originally for L500, which came from the analysis of XMM-Newton observations of the ROSAT-detected clusters (Piffaretti et al. 2011), while we use the published values of LX from the REFLEX and the extended BCS samples.”
Probing cosmic isotropy with a new X-ray galaxy cluster sample through the LX–T scaling relation (2020, methodology): “These luminosities were homogenized for systematics between the different parent catalogs, and were aperture-corrected to reflect the flux within R500 (for more details see Piffaretti et al. 2011, Chap.”
Planck2018 results (2018, methodology): “This conservative cluster mask was constructed by extending our SZ-cluster mask to at least three times the virial radius (θ500) of each cluster, and enlarging the cluster catalogue: instead of using only the internallydetected Planck SZ Catalogue, we added X-ray clusters listed in the Meta-Catalogu”
GALAXY CLUSTERS DISCOVERED VIA THE SUNYAEV–ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT IN THE 2500-SQUARE-DEGREE SPT-SZ SURVEY (2014, background): “…SPT sample to those from other large cluster catalogs selected via their ICM observables: namely the clusters detected in the all-sky ROSAT survey (Piffaretti et al. 2011), which includes the NORAS (Böhringer et al. 2000), REFLEX (Böhringer et al. 2004), and MACS (Ebeling et al. 2001) cluster…”