Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bartlett, J.G.
• Chamballu, A.
• Melin, J.-B.
• Arnaud, M.
• Members of the Planck Working

Titel

The Planck cluster survey

Ist Teil von

• Astronomische Nachrichten, 2008-02, Vol.329 (2), p.147-150

Ort / Verlag

Berlin: WILEY-VCH Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Access via Wiley Online Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Planck Satellite will survey the entire sky in 9 millimeter/submillimeter bands and detect thousands of galaxy clusters via their thermal Sunyaev‐Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The unprecedented volume of the survey will permit the construction of a unique catalog of massive clusters out to redshifts of order unity. We describe the expected contents of this catalog and use an empirical model of the intra‐cluster gas to predict the X‐ray properties of Planck SZ clusters. Using this information we show how a ∼10 Ms follow‐up program on XMM‐Newton could increase by ∼100‐fold the number of clusters with measured temperatures in the redshift range z = 0.5–1. Such a large sample of well‐studied massive clusters at these redshifts would be a powerful cosmological tool and a significant legacy for XMM‐Newton. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)