The XMM Cluster Survey: Optical analysis methodology and the first data release

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 423, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1024-1052

  Mehrtens, Nicola ^a   Romer, A Kathy ^a,b   Hilton, Matt ^c,d   Lloyd Davies, E J ^a   Miller, Christopher J ^e   Stanford, S A ^f,g   Hosmer, Mark ^a   Hoyle, Ben ^h,i,j   Collins, Chris A ^k   Liddle, Andrew R ^a,b   Viana, Pedro T P ^l,m   Nichol, Robert C ^b,i   Stott, John P ^k,n   Dubois, E Naomi ^a,b   Kay, Scott T ^o   Sahlén, Martin ^p   Young, Owain ^a   Short, C J ^a   Christodoulou, L ^a   Watson, William A ^a,b   Davidson, Michael ^q   Harrison, Craig D ^e   Baruah, Leon ^a   Smith, Mathew ^i,r   Burke, Claire ^k   Mayers, Julian A ^a   Deadman, Paul James ^a   Rooney, Philip J ^a   Edmondson, Edward M ⁱ   West, Michael ^s   Campbell, Heather C ^a,i   Edge, Alastair C ⁿ   Mann, Robert G ^q   Sabirli, Kivanc ^a   Wake, David ^n,t   Benoist, Christophe ^u,v   da Costa, Luiz ^v,w   Maia, Marcio A G ^v,w   Ogando, Ricardo ^v,w   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b South East Physics Network   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^k LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^l CENTRO DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Portugal)

^m UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

ⁿ DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^p STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^q UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^s EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^t YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^v LABORATÓRIO INTERINSTITUCIONAL DE E ASTRONOMIA LINEA   (Brazil)

^w OBSERVATÓRIO NACIONAL   (Brazil)

more..

Author keywords

Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Surveys; Techniques: photometric; Techniques: spectroscopic; X rays: galaxies: clusters

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; PHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER SURVEY; COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; DATA RELEASE; GALAXIES DISTANCES AND REDSHIFTS; RED SHIFT; SCALING RELATIONS; TECHNIQUES: PHOTOMETRIC; TECHNIQUES: SPECTROSCOPIC; X-RAYS GALAXIES CLUSTERS; X-VALUES;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84862135468     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20931.x     Document Type: Article

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