160d survey papers

Vikhlinin et al. 1998:  "A Catalog of 203 Galaxy Clusters Serendipitously Detected in the ROSAT PSPC Pointed Observations"

Description of the X-ray detection method. List of detected X-ray sources. Statistical calibration. Cluster log N – log S

Mullis et al. 2003:  "The 160 Square Degree ROSAT Survey: The Revised Catalog of 201 Clusters with Spectroscopic Redshifts"

Final object catalog with redshifts. Notes on optical IDs.

Vikhlinin et al. 1998:  "Evolution of Cluster X-Ray Luminosities and Radii: Results from the 160 Square Degree ROSAT Survey"

Initial results confirming negative evolution of the X-ray luminosity function. No evolution is found in the distribution of clusters sizes.

Mullis et al. 2004:  "Evolution of the Cluster X-Ray Luminosity Function"

Final analysis of the X-ray luminosity function from the 160d sample decidedly confirms the negative evolution in the comoving number density of high-Lx systems.

Vikhlinin et al. 1999:  "X-Ray Overluminous Elliptical Galaxies: A New Class of Mass Concentrations in the Universe?"

A significant fraction of clusters detected in X-ray appear as a seemingly isolated giant elliptical galaxy.

McNamara et al. 2001:  "A Richness Study of 14 Distant X-Ray Clusters from the 160 Square Degree Survey"

The paper discusses optical properties of the high-redshift X-ray selected clusters.

Vikhlinin et al. 2003:  "Cosmological constraints from evolution of cluster baryon mass function at z~0.5"

160d clusters are used to measure the evolution of the mass function at z>0.4. The cosmological fit to these data provides constraints on Ω_M and Ω_Λ comparable to those from SN and CMB inthe pre-WMAP era.