Current status


  • BAX contains informations on more than 2000 groups and clusters of galaxies
  • more than 1800  clusters with available flux measurements
  • more than 500 clusters with available temperature measurements


  • Publication updates and completness:
    nearly data from 600 papers concerning x-ray clusters are included:

  • almost all XMM publications.
  • All publications of Year 2003.
  • 65% of publications of 2004
  • 50% of publications of 2005
  • 70% of publications of 2006
  • All publications of 2007
  • 65% of publications of 2008