ROSAT All-Sky Survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 Galaxy Clusters

The authors use ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) broad-band X-ray images and the optical clusters identified from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) to estimate the X-ray luminosities around ~65,000 candidate galaxy clusters with masses &gt;~10&lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt; h&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; M&lt;sub&gt;sun&lt;/sub&gt; based on an optical to X-ray (OTX) code that they developed. They obtain a catalog with X-ray luminosities for all 64,646 clusters. A total of 34,522 (~53%) of these clusters have a signal-to-noise ratio S/N &gt; 0 after subtracting the background signal. According to the reference paper (but see HEASARC Caveats section below), this catalog contains 817 clusters (473 at redshift z &lt;= 0.12) with S/N &gt; 3 for their X-ray detections (an additional 12,629 clusters have 3 &gt;= S/N &gt; 1 and 21,076 clusters have 1 &gt;= S/N &gt; 0). The authors find about 65% of these X-ray clusters have their most massive member located near the X-ray flux peak; for the remaining 35%, the most massive galaxy is separated from the X-ray peak, with the separation following a distribution expected from a Navarro-Frenk-White profile. In the reference paper, the authors 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, although the scatter in these correlations is large. Comparing the properties of X-ray clusters of similar halo masses but having different X-ray luminosities, they find that massive haloes with masses &gt;~10&lt;sup&gt;14&lt;/sup&gt; h&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; M&lt;sub&gt;sun&lt;/sub&gt; contain a larger fraction of red satellite galaxies when they are brighter in X-ray. An opposite trend is found in central galaxies in relative low-mass haloes with masses &lt;~10&lt;sup&gt;14&lt;/sup&gt; h&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; M&lt;sub&gt;sun&lt;/sub&gt; where X-ray brighter clusters have smaller fraction of red central galaxies. Clusters with masses &gt;~10&lt;sup&gt;14&lt;/sup&gt; h&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; M&lt;sub&gt;sun&lt;/sub&gt; that are strong X-ray emitters contain many more low-mass satellite galaxies than weak X-ray emitters. These results are also confirmed by checking X-ray clusters of similar X-ray luminosities but having different characteristic stellar masses. The cluster catalog containing the optical properties of member galaxies and the X-ray luminosity is also available at &lt;a href="http://gax.shao.ac.cn/data/Group.html"&gt;http://gax.shao.ac.cn/data/Group.html&lt;/a&gt;. The optical data used in this analysis are taken from the SDSS galaxy group catalogs of Yang et al. (2007, ApJ, 671, 153), constructed using the adaptive halo-based group finder of Yang et al. (2005, MNRAS, 356, 1293), here updated to DR7. The parent galaxy catalog is the New York University Value-Added Galaxy Catalog (NYU-VAGC; Blanton et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 2562) based on the SDSS DR7 (Abazajian et al. 2009, ApJS, 182, 543), which contains an independent set of significantly improved reductions. In this study, the authors adopt a Lambda cold dark matter cosmology whose parameters are consistent with the 7-year data release of the WMAP mission: Omega&lt;sub&gt;m&lt;/sub&gt; = 0.275, Omega&lt;sub&gt;Lambda&lt;/sub&gt; = 0.725, h = H&lt;sub&gt;0&lt;/sub&gt;/(100 km s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; Mpc&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;) = 0.702, and sigma&lt;sub&gt;8&lt;/sub&gt; = 0.816. This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2017 based upon the &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/439/611"&gt;CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/439/611&lt;/a&gt; file catalog.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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