Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 22-Mar-2024)

Result of query: info cati XMMXCS JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS.s$
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Details on Acronym:   XMMXCS
  
XMMXCS (XMM Cluster Survey)
Write:<<XMMXCS JHHMM.m+DDMM>>
<<XMMXCS JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS.s>>
N: about 5000
Object:Cluster of G  (SIMBAD class: ClG = Cluster of Galaxies)
Note:The XMM Cluster Survey (XCS, see http://www.xcs-home.org) is a major new serendipitous galaxy cluster survey, based on public archival XMM-Newton data.
We are starting to discover clusters in such data, and so wish to register our proposed acronym before we begin to refer to them in print.
The survey is described in ref. 2001ApJ...547..594R.
2006ApJ...646L..13S: first ref. with a XMMXCS object.
2012MNRAS.423.1024M: first data release (N=503 clusters, format JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS.s).
2016MNRAS.463.1929M: addition of the XCS-Ancillary sample.
Ref:=2006ApJ...646L..13S
bySTANFORD S.A. , ROMER A.K., SABIRLI K., DAVIDSON M., HILTON M., VIANA P.T.P., COLLINS C.A., KAY S.T., LIDDLE A.R., MANN R.G., MILLER C.J., NICHOL R.C., WEST M.J., CONSELICE C.J., SPINRAD H., STERN D., BUNDY K.
 Astrophys. J., 646, 13-16 (2006)
  The XMM cluster survey: a massive galaxy cluster at z = 1.45.
o<XMMXCS J2215.9-1738> N=1. Table 1: <[SRS2006] NNNNN> N=6 among (Nos 14289-14651).
Ref:=2012MNRAS.423.1024M
byMEHRTENS N. , ROMER A.K., HILTON M., LLOYD-DAVIES E.J., MILLER C.J., STANFORD S.A., HOSMER M., HOYLE B., COLLINS C.A., LIDDLE A.R., VIANA P.T.P., NICHOL R.C., STOTT J.P., DUBOIS E.N., KAY S.T., SAHLEN M., YOUNG O., SHORT C.J., CHRISTODOULOU L., WATSON W.A., DAVIDSON M., HARRISON C.D., BARUAH L., SMITH M., BURKE C., MAYERS J.A., DEADMAN P.-J., ROONEY P.J., EDMONDSON E.M., WEST M., CAMPBELL H.C., EDGE A.C., MANN R.G., SABIRLI K., WAKE D., BENOIST C., DA COSTA L., MAIA M.A.G., OGANDO R.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 423, 1024-1052 (2012)
  The XMM Cluster Survey: optical analysis methodology and the first data release.
oxcsdr1.dat: <XMMXCS JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS.s> N=503 = <XMMXCS JHHMM.m+DDMM> N=503.
Ref:=2016MNRAS.463.1929M
byMEHRTENS N. , ROMER A.K., NICHOL R.C., COLLINS C.A., SAHLEN M., ROONEY P.J., MAYERS J.A., BERMEO-HERNANDEZ A., BRISTOW M., CAPOZZI D., CHRISTODOULOU L., COMPARAT J., HILTON M., HOYLE B., KAY S.T., LIDDLE A.R., MANN R.G., MASTERS K., MILLER C.J., PAREJKO J.K., PRADA F., ROSS A.J., SCHNEIDER D.P., STOTT J.P., STREBLYANSKA A., VIANA P.T.P., WHITE M., WILCOX H., ZEHAVI I.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 463, 1929-1943 (2016)
  The XMM Cluster Survey: the halo occupation number of BOSS galaxies in X-ray clusters.
oTable 1: <XMMXCS JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS.s> N=53 added.
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <J/MNRAS/423/1024/>
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <J/MNRAS/463/1929/>
Originof the Acronym: p = Pre-registered to IAU Comm.5