The XMM Cluster Survey:Optical analysis methodology and the first data release

By N. Mehrtens, A. Romer, M. Hilton, E. Lloyd-Davies, C. J. Miller, S. Stanford, Mark Hosmer, Ben Hoyle, C. Collins, Andrew R. Liddle and 29 more. 2011

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The XMM Cluster Survey (XCS) is a serendipitous search for galaxy clusters using all publicly available data in the XMM-Newton Science Archive. Its main aims are to measure cosmological parameters and trace the evolution of X-ray scaling relations. In this paper we present the first data release from the XMM Cluster Survey (XCS-DR1). This consists of 503 optically confirmed, serendipitously detected, X-ray clusters. Of these clusters, 256 are new to the literature and 357 are new X-ray discoveries. We present 463 clusters with a redshift estimate (0.06 1.0, including a new spectroscopically confirmed cluster at z= 1.01); (ii) 66 clusters with high TX (>5keV); (iii) 130 clusters/groups with low TX (X values in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) 'Stripe 82' co-add region; (v) 77 clusters with measured TX values in the Dark Energy Survey region; (vi) 40 clusters detected with sufficient counts to permit mass measurements (under the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium); (vii) 104 clusters that can be used for applications such as the derivation of cosmological parameters and the measurement of cluster scaling relations. The X-ray analysis methodology used to construct and analyse the XCS-DR1 cluster sample has been presented in a companion paper, Lloyd-Davies et al.

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The SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey (2024, unknown): “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).”
The halo mass function through the cosmic ages (2012, methodology): “…on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/433/2/1230/1747663 by guest on 28 July 2018 Mehrtens et al. 2012; Pillepich, Porciani & Reiprich 2012) and cluster counting via the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect (Fowler et al. 2010; Planck…”
THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY COADD: 275 deg2 OF DEEP SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY IMAGING ON STRIPE 82 (2011, background): “…large area on a part of the sky that has been heavily studied, there are also many opportunities for multi-wavelength studies, from the x-ray (XMM: Mehrtens et al. 2012) to the microwave (SZ: Menanteau et al. 2010; Hand et al. 2011; Reese et al. 2012; Sehgal et al. 2011; Hasselfield et al. 2013)…”
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Planck 2013 results. XX. Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts (2013, methodology): “…observations, which have been used as source catalogues for higherprecision observations by the Chandra and XMM-Newton satellites, as well as surveys with XMM-Newton, including the XMM Cluster Survey (XCS, Mehrtens et al. 2012) and the XMM Large Scale Structure survey (XMM-LSS, Willis et al. 2013).”
The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey (2019, background): “…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) signature (Sunyaev & Zel’dovich…”