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Dartmouth College

2000

Data analysis

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The Warps Survey - Iv. The X-Ray Luminosity-Temperature Relation Of High-Redshift Galaxy Clusters, B. W. Fairley, L. R. Jones, C. Scharf, H. Ebeling, E. Perlman, D. Horner, G. Wegner, M. Malkan Jul 2000

The Warps Survey - Iv. The X-Ray Luminosity-Temperature Relation Of High-Redshift Galaxy Clusters, B. W. Fairley, L. R. Jones, C. Scharf, H. Ebeling, E. Perlman, D. Horner, G. Wegner, M. Malkan

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We present a measurement of the cluster X-ray luminosity-temperature (L-T) relation out to high redshift (z∼0.8). Combined ROSAT PSPC spectra of 91 galaxy clusters detected in the Wide Angle ROSAT Pointed Survey (WARPS) are simultaneously fitted in redshift and luminosity bins. The resulting temperature and luminosity measurements of these bins, which occupy a region of the high-redshift L-T relation not previously sampled, are compared with existing measurements at low redshift in order to constrain the evolution of the L-T relation. We find the best fit to low-redshift (z<0.2) cluster data, at T …