Monday 29 April, 2:30 pm, Curia II
The ROSAT archives have been sucked dry and new X-ray survey telescope can't get funded, so the only options to generate large (enough) samples of clusters for cosmological studies seem to be the XMM archive and Blind SZ detection. But, by the time these samples are available, will there be any parameter space left to explore?
In this talk, I will review the analysis of existing cluster samples and the arguments used to motivate the development of new cluster surveys. I will then discuss two surveys in progress; one based on the XMM X-ray archive and the other on a sub-millimeter (SZ) survey at the South Pole.