1. The XMM Cluster Survey: Present status and latest results.
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Viana, P.T.P., Mehrtens, N., Harrison, C.D., Romer, A.K., Collins, C.A., Hilton, M., Hoyle, B., Kay, S.T., Liddle, A.R., Mayers, J.A., Miller, C.J., Rooney, P.J., Sahlén, M., and Stott, J.P.
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The XMM Cluster Survey (XCS) is a serendipitous search for galaxy clusters using all publicly available data in the XMM- Newton Science Archive. Our recent first data release (XCS-DR1) contains 503 optically confirmed groups and clusters, among which 256 new to the literature and 357 whose X-ray emission was detected for the first time. We discuss their properties and provide an update on the work being done. As examples of the applications of XCS-DR1, we mention the 17 fossil groups/clusters identified with the help of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Their brightest galaxies have stellar populations and star-formation histories which are similar to normal brightest cluster galaxies, but their stellar masses are significantly larger and correspond to a much bigger fraction of the total group/cluster optical luminosity. We also highlight the 15 clusters expected tobe also detected by the Planck satellite, and characterize the expected overlap between the final XCS and Planck cluster catalogues. (© 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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