Cosmology with XMM galaxy clusters: the X-CLASS/GROND catalogue and photometric redshifts

Abstract

The XMM Cluster Archive Super Survey (X-CLASS) is a serendipitously-detected X-ray-selected sample of 845 galaxy clusters based on 2774 XMM archival observations and covering approximately 90 deg${}^2$ spread across the high-Galactic latitude ($|b|>20$ deg) sky. The primary goal of this survey is to produce a well-selected sample of galaxy clusters on which cosmological analyses can be performed. This article presents the photometric redshift followup of a high signal-to-noise subset of 266 of these clusters with declination $\delta <+20$ deg with GROND, a seven channel ($grizJHK$) simultaneous imager on the MPG 2.2m telescope at the ESO La Silla Observatory. We use a newly developed technique based on the red sequence colour-redshift relation, enhanced with information coming from the X-ray detection to provide photometric redshifts for this sample. We determine photometric redshifts for 236 clusters, finding a median redshift of $z=0.39$ with an accuracy of $\Delta z=0.02(1+z)$ when compared to a sample of 76 spectroscopically confirmed clusters. We also compute X-ray luminosities for the entire sample and find a median bolometric luminosity of $7.2\times 10^{43}\mathrm{erg}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$ and a median temperature 2.9 keV. We compare our results to the XMM-XCS and XMM-XXL surveys, finding good agreement in both samples. The X-CLASS catalogue is available online at http://xmm-lss.in2p3.fr:8080/l4sdb/.

arXiv commentAccepted for publication in MNRAS. 26 pages, 14 figures. Catalogue information available on request to the authors pending a digital version (see in paper)

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