Properties of the X-ray-brightest Abell-type clusters of galaxies (XBACs) from ROSAT All-Sky Survey data - I. the sample

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 281, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 799-829

  Ebeling, H ^a,b,d   Voges, W ^a   Bohringer H ^a   Edge, A C ^b   Huchra, J P ^c   Briel, U G ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: clusters: general; Large scale structure of universe; Surveys; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COSMOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; GALAXIES;

ALL-SKY; ALL-SKY SURVEY; CLUSTER OF GALAXIES; COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; GALAXIES: CLUSTERS: GENERAL; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE; PROPERTY; SURVEY DATA; X-RAY FLUX; X-RAYS: GALAXIES;

SURVEYS;

EID: 0001503748     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/281.3.799     Document Type: Article

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