VERIFICATION OF A SUBSAMPLE OF THE ABELL SURVEY USING X-RAY DATA

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HENRIKSEN, M [1 ]
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[1] SPACE TELESCOPE SCI INST,BALTIMORE,MD 21218
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10.1086/116123
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P1 [天文学];
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We have used the available x-ray data to investigate systematic errors in a complete subsample of the Abell catalog which has been used in studies of large-scale structure. We find no evidence that this complete subsample has systematic errors in the form of: entries misidentified as rich clusters or grossly misclassified in richness or distance class, and omissions of rich clusters from the complete survey.
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