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ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION

2.PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF GALAXY CLUSTERS

2.1.X-ray properties of clusters

2.2.Cooling in the Intra Cluster Medium

3.OBSERVATIONAL FRAMEWORK

3.1.Optically-based Cluster Surveys

3.2.X-ray Cluster Surveys

3.3.Strategies and Selection Functions for X-ray Surveys

3.4.Other methods

4.THE SPACE DENSITY OF X-RAY CLUSTERS

4.1.Local Cluster Number Density

4.2.The Cluster Abundance at Higher Redshifts and Its Evolution

4.3.Distant X-ray Clusters: the Latest View from Chandra

5.COSMOLOGY WITH X-RAY CLUSTERS

5.1.The cosmological mass function

5.2.Deriving from cluster evolution

6.OUTLOOK AND FUTURE WORK

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