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The Southern SHARC Survey: the z = 0.3 - 0.7 Cluster XLF

D. J. Burke, C. A. Collins, R. M. Sharples, A. K. Romer, B. P. Holden, R. C. Nichol

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9708145

Abstract

We present the z = 0.3 - 0.7 cluster X-ray luminosity function (XLF) determined from the Southern SHARC (Serendipitous High-redshift Archival ROSAT Cluster) survey. Over the luminosity range L ~ (0.3 - 3) x 1044 erg/s (0.5 - 2.0 keV) the XLF is in close agreement with that of the low redshift X-ray cluster population. This result greatly strengthens our previous claim of no evolution of the cluster population, at these luminosities, at a median redshift of z =0.44.

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