Swift AGN and Cluster Survey (SWCL). II. SDSS Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Griffin R.D.
  2. Dai X.
  3. Kochanek C.S.
  4. Bregman J.N.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We study 203 (of 442) Swift AGN and Cluster Survey extended X-ray sources located in the SDSS DR8 footprint to search for galaxy over-densities in three-dimensional space using SDSS galaxy photometric redshifts and positions near the Swift cluster candidates. We find 104 Swift clusters with a >3{sigma} galaxy over-density. The remaining targets are potentially located at higher redshifts and require deeper optical follow-up observations for confirmation as galaxy clusters. We present a series of cluster properties including the redshift, brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) magnitude, BCG-to-X-ray center offset, optical richness, and X-ray luminosity. We also detect red sequences in ~85% of the 104 confirmed clusters. The X-ray luminosity and optical richness for the SDSS confirmed Swift clusters are correlated and follow previously established relations. The distribution of the separations between the X-ray centroids and the most likely BCG is also consistent with expectation. We compare the observed redshift distribution of the sample with a theoretical model, and find that our sample is complete for z<~0.3 and is still 80% complete up to z~0.4, consistent with the SDSS survey depth. These analysis results suggest that our Swift cluster selection algorithm has yielded a statistically well-defined cluster sample for further study of cluster evolution and cosmology. We also match our SDSS confirmed Swift clusters to existing cluster catalogs, and find 42, 23, and 1 matches in optical, X-ray, and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich catalogs, respectively, and so the majority of these clusters are new detections.

Keywords
  1. galaxy-clusters
  2. redshifted
  3. x-ray-sources
  4. surveys
  5. visible-astronomy
  6. sloan-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2016ApJS..222...13G
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22220013

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2016-02-18T13:20:33Z
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2016-02-18T13:20:33Z
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