A Complete Sample of 12 Very X-Ray Luminous Galaxy Clusters at z > 0.5

By H. Ebeling, E. Barrett, D. Donovan, C. J. Ma, A. Edge, L. V. Speybroeck. 2007

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We present the statistically complete and cosmologically most relevant subset of the 12 most distant galaxy clusters detected at z > 0.5 by the Massive Cluster Survey (MACS). Ten of these systems are new discoveries; only two (MACS J0018.5+1626, aka Cl 0016+1609, and MACS J0454.1-0300, aka MS 0451.6-0305) were previously known. We provide fundamental cluster properties derived from our optical and X-ray follow-up observations as well as the selection function in tabulated form to facilitate cosmological studies using this sample.

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X-ray–optical classification of cluster mergers and the evolution of the cluster merger fraction (2011, methodology): “We refer to the literature for a detailed discussion and results (Ebeling et al. 2007; Bradač et al. 2008; Ma et al. 2010).”
New constraints on dark energy from the observed growth of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters (2007, background): “The Massive Cluster Survey (MACS; Ebeling et al. 2001, 2007) – which at this writing contains 126 clusters and covers 55 per cent of the sky – extends these data to z ∼ 0.7.”
THE CLUSTER LENSING AND SUPERNOVA SURVEY WITH HUBBLE: AN OVERVIEW (2011, methodology): “The CLASH sample is drawn heavily from the Abell and MACS cluster catalogs (Abell 1958; Abell et al. 1989; Ebeling et al. 2001, 2007, 2010).”
The Observed Growth of Massive Galaxy Clusters II: X-ray Scaling Relations (2009, methodology): “6 shows the standard data set used throughout this work in black, with an additional 12 high-redshift (0.5 < z < 0.7) Faint MACS clusters from Ebeling et al. (2007) in blue and 22 clusters from the 400 Square Degree survey (400d, 0.35 < z < 0.9; Burenin et al. 2007) in green.”
Improved constraints on dark energy from Chandra X-ray observations of the largest relaxed galaxy clusters (2007, background): “The bulk of the clusters at z > 0.3 were identified in the MACS survey (Ebeling, Edge & Henry 2001; Ebeling et al. 2007).”
The MCXC: a meta-catalogue of x-ray detected clusters of galaxies (2010, background): “Apart from the six MACS DIST luminosity measurements in Ebeling et al. (2007), the luminositiesL500 are directly available for all MACS clusters.”
Planck2013 results. XXIX. ThePlanckcatalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources (2013, background): “The smaller-area MACS sample, based on systematic follow-up ofROSATbright sources (Ebeling et al. 2007), contains a dozen clusters atz ≥ 0.5.”
CLASH: WEAK-LENSING SHEAR-AND-MAGNIFICATION ANALYSIS OF 20 GALAXY CLUSTERS (2014, methodology): “The CLASH sample is drawn largely from the Abell and MACS cluster catalogs (Abell 1958; Abell et al. 1989; Ebeling et al. 2001, 2007, 2010).”
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE COMBINED STRONG AND WEAK LENSING ANALYSIS OF THE CLASH SAMPLE: MASS AND MAGNIFICATION MODELS AND SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES (2014, methodology): “As the two previous clusters in our CLASH list, M0744 (z = 0.698) is also part of the 12 MACS clusters at z > 0.5 (Ebeling et al. 2007), and as such was first analyzed in Zitrin et al. (2011a), where the first multiply imaged galaxies known for this cluster were found.”
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CLASH: THE ENHANCED LENSING EFFICIENCY OF THE HIGHLY ELONGATED MERGING CLUSTER MACS J0416.1−2403 (2012, background): “Sereno & Zitrin (2012) showed that in a triaxial lensing analysis, the 12 MACS clusters at z > 0.5 (Ebeling et al. 2007) have relatively low concentrations, despite the many multiple images uncovered in their fields.”
LoCuSS: first results from strong-lensing analysis of 20 massive galaxy clusters at z= 0.2 (2009, result): “Similar studies of clusters at z > 0.3 from the MAssive Cluster Survey (Ebeling et al. 2001, 2007) will allow evolution in the properties of cluster cores to be probed (e.g. Smith et al. 2009a, Richard et al. in preparation).”
Revealing the Properties of Dark Matter in the Merging Cluster MACS J0025.4–1222 (2008, background): “4−1222 were targeted in the course of a DEIMOS/KECK spectroscopic campaign for the MACS survey (Ebeling et al. 2007).”
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CLASH: THREE STRONGLY LENSED IMAGES OF A CANDIDATE z ≈ 11 GALAXY (2012, background): “7+7015 (z = 0.591, Ebeling et al. 2007), were selected on the basis of their especially strong gravitational lensing power as observed in previous imaging, with the primary goal of discovering highly magnified galaxies at high redshift.”