The REFLEX Cluster Survey: Observing Strategy and First Results on Large-Scale Structure
Astrophysics
2019-08-17 v1
Abstract
We give a general description of the optical observing strategy of the ROSAT-ESO Flux-Limited X-ray (REFLEX) cluster survey. This presently includes 460 clusters of galaxies selected from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey in the Southern hemisphere, to a flux limit of 3 10^{-12} erg s^{-1} cm^{-2}. Redshifts are now measured for 95% of this sample. Work is in progress to complete this coverage, and then extend the sample to fainter fluxes. A few highlights on the large-scale distribution of REFLEX clusters and their clustering properties are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9903396,
title = {The REFLEX Cluster Survey: Observing Strategy and First Results on Large-Scale Structure},
author = {L. Guzzo and H. Boehringer and P. Schuecker and C. A. Collins and S. Schindler and D. M. Neumann and S. De Grandi and R. Cruddace and G. Chincarini and A. C. Edge and P. A. Shaver and W. Voges},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9903396},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Latex; 12 pages with colour PS figures. To appear in "The ESO Messenger", 95, p.27