Issue |
A&A
Volume 688, August 2024
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Article Number | A210 | |
Number of page(s) | 35 | |
Section | Catalogs and data | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202349031 | |
Published online | 28 August 2024 |
The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey
Optical identification and properties of galaxy clusters and groups in the western galactic hemisphere★
1
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics,
Giessenbachstrasse 1,
85748
Garching,
Germany
e-mail: mkluge@mpe.mpg.de
2
University-Observatory, Ludwig-Maximilians-University,
Scheinerstrasse 1,
81679
Munich,
Germany
3
IRAP, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, CNES,
31028
Toulouse,
France
4
Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Astro- und Teilchenphysik,
Technikerstr. 25/8,
6020
Innsbruck,
Austria
5
Excellence Cluster Origins,
Boltzmannstr. 2,
85748
Garching,
Germany
6
McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin,
2515 Speedway, Stop C1402,
Austin,
TX
78712,
USA
7
Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin,
2515 Speedway, Stop C1400,
Austin,
TX
78712,
USA
8
Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (AIfA), Universität Bonn,
Auf dem Hügel 71,
53121
Bonn,
Germany
9
Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP),
An der Sternwarte 16,
14482
Potsdam,
Germany
10
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory,
Casilla 603,
La Serena,
Chile
Received:
20
December
2023
Accepted:
30
April
2024
The first SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey (eRASS1) provides the largest intracluster medium-selected galaxy cluster and group catalog covering the western Galactic hemisphere. Compared to samples selected purely on X-ray extent, the sample purity can be enhanced by identifying cluster candidates using optical and near-infrared data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. Using the red-sequence-based cluster finder eROMaPPer, we measured individual photometric properties (redshift zλ, richness λ, optical center, and BCG position) for 12000 eRASS1 clusters over a sky area of 13 116 deg2, augmented by 247 cases identified by matching the candidates with known clusters from the literature. The median redshift of the identified eRASS1 sample is z = 0.31, with 10% of the clusters at z > 0.72. The photometric redshifts have an accuracy of δz/(1 + z) ≲ 0.005 for 0.05 < z < 0.9. Spectroscopic cluster properties (redshift zspec and velocity dispersion σ) were measured a posteriori for a subsample of 3210 and 1499 eRASS1 clusters, respectively, using an extensive compilation of spectroscopic redshifts of galaxies from the literature. We infer that the primary eRASS1 sample has a purity of 86% and optical completeness >95% for z > 0.05. For these and further quality assessments of the eRASS1 identified catalog, we applied our identification method to a collection of galaxy cluster catalogs in the literature, as well as blindly on the full Legacy Surveys covering 24069 deg2. Using a combination of these cluster samples, we investigated the velocity dispersion-richness relation, finding that it scales with richness as log(λnorm) = 2.401 × log(σ) − 5.074 with an intrinsic scatter of δin = 0.10 ± 0.01 dex. The primary product of our work is the identified eRASS1 cluster catalog with high purity and a well-defined X-ray selection process, opening the path for precise cosmological analyses presented in companion papers.
Key words: catalogs / surveys / galaxies: clusters: general / galaxies: distances and redshifts / galaxies: groups: general / X-rays: galaxies: clusters
The catalog is available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr (130.79.128.5) or via https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/688/A210
© The Authors 2024
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