Galaxy groups and low mass clusters at z<0.6: A perspective from the XMM Large Scale Structure survey
Abstract
Galaxy groups and low-mass clusters provide important laboratories in which to study X-ray gas physics and the interplay between galaxy evolution and environmental effects. The X-ray Multi-Mirror (XMM) Large Scale Structure (LSS) survey has currently imaged 5 deg2 to a nominal extended source flux limit of order 10e-14 ergs/s/cm2 and is dominated numerically by low-mass groups and clusters at redshifts 0.2 < z < 0.6. We discuss the generation of the XMM-LSS cluster sample, initial results on the physics of groups and low-mass clusters and the prospects for detailed follow-up studies of these systems.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0610800,
title = {Galaxy groups and low mass clusters at z<0.6: A perspective from the XMM Large Scale Structure survey},
author = {J. P. Willis and F. Pacaud and M. Pierre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0610800},
year = {2007}
}
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To appear in the Proceedings of the XLIst Rencontres de Moriond, XXVIth Astrophysics Moriond Meeting: "From dark halos to light", Eds. L.Tresse, S. Maurogordato and J. Tran Thanh Van (Editions Frontieres)