HIFLUGCS
The HIghest X-ray FLUx Galaxy Cluster Sample
is a complete sample of galaxy clusters with X-ray flux
limit fX,lim(0.1-2.4 keV) = 2.0×10-11 erg/s/cm2 and galactic latitude
|bII| >= 20.0 deg covering 2/3 of the sky.
Concise overview of cosmological constraints
obtained from HIFLUGCS.
Main paper. ApJ, 567, 716-740 (2002).
gzipped PS-file
PDF-file
Related papers.
Subset of papers referring to HIFLUGCS.
Electronic data tables in different formats.
Tables 3 and 4 of the main paper, gzipped postscript.
Tables 3 and 4 of the main paper, LaTex.
Table 3 of the main paper, ASCII.
Table 4 of the main paper, ASCII.
IDL routine to manipulate the ASCII data, tablecheck.pro
(provided by Greg Schwarz).
For instance to plot luminosity versus mass type within IDL:
.r tablecheck
tablecheck,'tab3.asc',11,12,Lum,LBol
tablecheck,'tab4.asc',13,19,M500,M200
plot,alog10(M200),alog10(LBol),psym=1
HIFLUGCS core facts for your PalmPilot, PDB format (requires pilot-db).
Optical DSS images
with adaptively smoothed X-ray contours from
ROSAT PSPC
overlaid. Image center is not always coincident with cluster center.
Overlays prepared with software written by Andreas Vogler. If you find
these images useful for your work please include a reference to this web site
(www.reiprich.net) and/or the main paper (ApJ, 567, 716). The galaxy
group NGC 5044 is displayed as an example below.
Images.
The model galaxy cluster X-ray spectra shown in Chapter 6 in Peter Schneider's
book can be downloaded
here.
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Last modified: Wed Jul 30 13:44:23 EDT 2003