2XMMi/SDSS Galaxy Cluster Survey

The authors have compiled a sample of X-ray-selected galaxy groups and clusters from the XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog (2XMMi-DR3) with optical confirmation and redshift measurement from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In their paper, they present an analysis of the X-ray properties of this new sample with particular emphasis on the X-ray luminosity-temperature (L&lt;sub&gt;X&lt;/sub&gt; - T) relation. The X-ray cluster candidates were selected from the 2XMMi-DR3 catalog in the footprint of the SDSS-DR7. The authors developed a finding algorithm to search for overdensities of galaxies at the positions of the X-ray cluster candidates in the photometric redshift space and to measure the redshifts of the clusters from the SDSS data. For optically confirmed clusters with good quality X-ray data, they derived the X-ray flux, luminosity, and temperature from proper spectral fits, while the X-ray flux for clusters with low-quality X-ray data was obtained from the 2XMMi-DR3 catalogue. The detection algorithm provides the photometric redshift of 530 galaxy clusters. Of these, 310 clusters have a spectroscopic redshift for at least one member galaxy. About 75 percent of the optically confirmed cluster sample are newly discovered X-ray clusters. Moreover, 301 systems are known as optically selected clusters in the literature while the remainder are new discoveries in X-ray and optical bands. The optically confirmed cluster sample spans a wide redshift range 0.03 to 0.70 (median z = 0.32). In this paper, they present the catalog of X-ray-selected galaxy groups and clusters from the 2XMMi/SDSS galaxy cluster survey. The catalog has two subsamples: (i) a cluster sample comprising 345 objects with their X-ray spectroscopic temperature and flux from the spectral fitting; (these objects are identified by having values for the table_sample parameter of 1 in this HEASARC implementation of the catalog) and (ii) a cluster sample consisting of 185 systems with their X-ray flux from the 2XMMi-DR3 catalog, because their X-ray data are insufficient for spectral fitting (these objects are identified by having values for the table_sample parameter of 2 herein). For each cluster, the catalog also provides the X-ray bolometric luminosity and the cluster mass at R&lt;sub&gt;500&lt;/sub&gt; based on scaling relations and the position of the likely brightest cluster galaxy (BCG). The updated L&lt;sub&gt;X&lt;/sub&gt; - T relation of the current sample with X-ray spectroscopic parameters is presented in the paper. The authors found the slope of the L&lt;sub&gt;X&lt;/sub&gt; - T relation to be consistent with published ones. They see no evidence for evolution in the slope and intrinsic scatter of the L&lt;sub&gt;X&lt;/sub&gt; - T relation with redshift when excluding the low-luminosity groups. This catalog of X-ray selected galaxy clusters and groups supersedes and subsumes the first release of the 2XMMi/SDSS Galaxy Cluster Survey, comprising 175 clusters of galaxies, which was presented in Takey et al. (2011, A&amp;A, 534, A120). This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2013 based on &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/558/A75"&gt;CDS catalog J/A+A/558/A75&lt;/a&gt; files table1.dat and table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration