The Southern SHARC Survey: the Z = 0.3--0.7 Cluster X-Ray Luminosity Function 1
Abstract
We present the z = 0.3-0.7 cluster X-ray luminosity function (XLF) determined from the Southern Serendipitous High-Redshift Archival ROSAT Cluster (SHARC) survey. Over the luminosity range L ~ (0.3-3) × 1044 ergs s-1 (0.5-2.0 keV), the XLF is in close agreement with that of the low-redshift X-ray cluster population. This result greatly strengthens our previous claim of no evolution of the cluster population, at these luminosities, at a median redshift of z=0.44.
Based partly on data collected at the European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chile, and the Anglo-Australian Telescope, Siding Spring, Australia.- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- October 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1086/310943
- Bibcode:
- 1997ApJ...488L..83B
- Keywords:
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- GALAXIES: CLUSTERS: GENERAL;
- GALAXIES: EVOLUTION;
- X-RAYS: GALAXIES;
- X-RAYS: GENERAL;
- Galaxies: Clusters: General;
- Galaxies: Evolution;
- X-Rays: Galaxies;
- X-Rays: General