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Measuring the X-ray luminosities of SDSS DR7 clusters from RASS

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2014-06-19 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We use ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) broadband X-ray images and the optical clusters identified from SDSS DR7 to estimate the X-ray luminosities around 65,000\sim 65,000 candidate clusters with masses \ga1013\msunh\ga 10^{13}\msunh based on an Optical to X-ray (OTX) code we develop. We obtain a catalogue with X-ray luminosity for each cluster. This catalog contains 817 clusters (473 at redshift z0.12z\le 0.12) with S/N>3S/N> 3 in X-ray detection. We find about 65%65\% of these X-ray clusters have their most massive member located near the X-ray flux peak; for the rest 35%35\%, the most massive galaxy is separated from the X-ray peak, with the separation following a distribution expected from a NFW profile. We investigate a number of correlations between the optical and X-ray properties of these X-ray clusters, and find that: the cluster X-ray luminosity is correlated with the stellar mass (luminosity) of the clusters, as well as with the stellar mass (luminosity) of the central galaxy and the mass of the halo, but the scatter in these correlations is large. Comparing the properties of X-ray clusters of similar halo masses but having different X-ray luminosities, we find that massive halos with masses \ga1014\msunh\ga 10^{14}\msunh contain a larger fraction of red satellite galaxies when they are brighter in X-ray. ... A cluster catalog containing the optical properties of member galaxies and the X-ray luminosity is available at {\it http://gax.shao.ac.cn/data/Group.html}.

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@article{arxiv.1312.7417,
  title  = {Measuring the X-ray luminosities of SDSS DR7 clusters from RASS},
  author = {Lei Wang and Xiaohu Yang and Shiyin Shen and H. J. Mo and Frank C. van den Bosch and Wentao Luo and Yu Wang and Erwin T. Lau and Q. D. Wang and Xi Kang and Ran Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.7417},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

13 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS