English

The BMW X-ray Cluster Survey

Astrophysics 2019-08-17 v1

Abstract

We describe the main features of the BMW survey of serendipitous X-ray clusters, based on the still unexploited ROSAT-HRI archival observations. The sky coverage, surface density and first deep optical CCD images of the candidates indicate that this sample can represent an excellent complement to the existing PSPC deep cluster surveys and will provide us with a fully independent probe of the evolution of the cluster abundance, in addition to significantly increasing the number of clusters known at z>0.6.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0103348,
  title  = {The BMW X-ray Cluster Survey},
  author = {Alberto Moretti and Luigi Guzzo and Sergio Campana and Stefano Covino and Davide Lazzati and Marcella Longhetti and Emilio Molinari and Maria Rosa Panzera and Gianpiero Tagliaferri and Ian Dell'Antonio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0103348},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

6 pages,4 figures.To appear in the proceedings of the "X-Ray Astronomy 2000" conference (Sept. 2000, Palermo, Italy), PASP Conference Series, ed. R. Giacconi, L. Stella and S. Serio

R2 v1 2026-07-22T07:56:43.896Z