AMiBA, XMM, and Cluster Surveys
نویسنده
چکیده
The Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy (AMiBA) is an interferometric array of 19 dishes co-mounted on a steerable platform and operating at 95GHz. One of the main scientific aims of AMiBA is to conduct cluster surveys using the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect. Here we explore the potential of AMiBA as a tailor-made SZ instrument for the study of cluster physics and cosmology via cluster surveys out to the epoch of cluster formation. In particular, we explore the potential of combining AMiBA cluster surveys with the XMM-LSS (Large Scale Structure) survey.
منابع مشابه
The XMM - LSS survey I .
We have designed a medium deep large area X-ray survey with XMM – the XMM Large Scale Structure survey, XMM-LSS – with the scope of extending the cosmological tests attempted using ROSAT cluster samples to two redshift bins between 0 < z < 1 while maintaining the precision of earlier studies. Two main goals have constrained the survey design: the evolutionary study of the cluster-cluster correl...
متن کاملThe XMM - LSS survey I . Scientific
We have designed a medium deep large area X-ray survey with XMM – the XMM Large Scale Structure survey, XMM-LSS – with the scope of extending the cosmological tests attempted using ROSAT cluster samples to two redshift bins between 0 < z < 1 while maintaining the precision of earlier studies. Two main goals have constrained the survey design: the evolutionary study of the cluster-cluster correl...
متن کاملReconstructing the Peak Distribution in the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Surveys
We examine the ability of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect (SZE) statistics proposed by Lee (2002) using numerical simulations. The statistics describe the distribution of the peak heights in the noise-contaminated SZE sky maps, and provide an analysis technique to sort out the noise-contamination effect and estimate the number density of real clusters. The method is devised to be suitable for the...
متن کاملXMM Cluster Survey: X-ray source identification using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The XMM Cluster Survey (XCS) is predicted to detect thousands of clusters observed serendipitously in XMM-Newton pointings. We investigate automating optical follow-up of XCS cluster candidates using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) public archive, concentrating on 42 XMM observations that overlap the First Data Release of the SDSS. Confining ourselves to the inner 11 arcminutes of the XMM f...
متن کاملThe Xmm Large Scale Structure Survey: Scientific Motivation and First Observations
Thanks to its unrivalled sensitivity and large field of view, XMM potentially occupies a leading position as a survey instrument. We present cosmological arguments in favour of a medium-sensitivity, large-scale structure survey with XMM, using galaxy clusters as tracers of the cosmic network. We show how this has motivated the definition of a concrete survey, the XMM Large-Scale Structure Surve...
متن کامل