The XMM Cluster Survey : a new cluster catalogue and applications

In this thesis, we present the XMM Cluster Survey Second Data Release (XCS-DR2) and use it to test possible spectroscopic biases, fit scaling relations, and find massive, relaxed galaxy clusters. XCS finds clusters in the XMM public archive. The new cluster candidate list includes 15,642 objects fou...

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Main Author: Rooney, Philip
Published: University of Sussex 2016
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.690463