The ROSAT-ESO Flux Limited X-ray (REFLEX) Galaxy cluster survey

We present the catalogue of the REFLEX Cluster Survey providing information on the X-ray properties, redshifts, and some identification details of the clusters in the REFLEX sample. The catalogue describes a statistically complete X-ray flux-limited sample of 447 galaxy clusters above an X-ray flux of 3 10-12 erg s-1 cm-2 (0.1 to 2.4 keV) in an area of 4.24 ster in the southern sky. The cluster candidates were first selected by their X-ray emission in the ROSAT-All Sky Survey and subsequently spectroscopically identified in the frame of an ESO key programme. Previously described tests have shown that the sample is more than 90% complete and there is a conservative upper limit of 9% on the fraction of clusters…

• NA
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• GM
  George Mason University
• CI
  California Institute of Technology
• JP
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• KP
  Key Programme