2001/03/21 by A. Moretti, Alberto Moretti, L. Guzzo +26
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0103348
6 pages,4 figures.To appear in the proceedings of the "X-Ray Astronomy 2000" conference (Sept. 2000, Palermo, Italy), PASP Conference Series, ed. R. Giacconi, L. Stella and S. Serio
arxiv created 2001/03/21 · arxiv updated 2019/08/17
We describe the main features of the BMW survey of serendipitous X-ray clusters, based on the still unexploited ROSAT-HRI archival observations. The sky coverage, surface density and first deep optical CCD images of the candidates indicate that this sample can represent an excellent complement to the existing PSPC deep cluster surveys and will provide us with a fully independent probe of the evolution of the cluster abundance, in addition to significantly increasing the number of clusters known at z>0.6.