Back to the article index
Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- 2.PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF GALAXY
CLUSTERS
- 2.1.X-ray properties of clusters
- 2.2.Cooling in the Intra Cluster
Medium
- 3.OBSERVATIONAL FRAMEWORK
- 3.1.Optically-based Cluster
Surveys
- 3.2.X-ray Cluster Surveys
- 3.3.Strategies and Selection Functions
for X-ray Surveys
- 3.4.Other methods
- 4.THE SPACE DENSITY OF X-RAY CLUSTERS
- 4.1.Local Cluster Number Density
- 4.2.The Cluster Abundance at Higher Redshifts and Its
Evolution
- 4.3.Distant X-ray Clusters: the Latest
View from Chandra
- 5.COSMOLOGY WITH X-RAY CLUSTERS
- 5.1.The cosmological mass
function
- 5.2.Deriving from cluster evolution
- 6.OUTLOOK AND FUTURE WORK
- REFERENCES