Einstein Observatory Clusters of Galaxies Catalog Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Jones, Forman
  2. Published by
    NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Abstract
      The Einstein Observatory Clusters of Galaxies Catalog presents the X-ray characteristics of a sample of 368 clusters of galaxies with redshifts less than 0.2 which were observed with the Einstein Imaging Proportional Counter (IPC). For each cluster, the authors measured the 0.5 - 4.5 keV counting rate and computed the 0.5 - 4.5 keV source luminosity, as well as the bolometric luminosity within fixed metric radii. They detected 85% of Abell clusters with z < 0.1, demonstrating that the large majority of these optically selected clusters are not the results of chance superpositions. For 163 clusters, they measured their X-ray surface brightness profiles and determined their core radii. For about 230 clusters, they then used either their measured core radii and beta values, or mean values derived for this sample, to measure central gas densities and gas masses. They used estimated or measured cluster gas temperatures, along with the derived gas-density profiles, to estimate total cluster masses, under the assumptions that the gas is isothermal and in hydrostatic equilibrium. This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2005 based on the merger of CDS tables J/ApJ/511/65/table3.dat and table4.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
    
Keywords
  1. Cluster of Galaxies
Bibliographic source
1999ApJ...511...65J
See also HTML
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/eingalclus.html
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://nasa.heasarc/eingalclus

Access

IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=eingalclus&
IVOA Table Access TAP
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
Web browser access HTML
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_eingalclus&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1

History

2025-01-17T00:00:00
Resource record created
2025-01-17

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