Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol. 3: Clusters of Galaxies: Probes of Cosmological Structure and Galaxy Evolution, ed. J. S. Mulchaey, A. Dressler, and A. Oemler (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press)
astro-ph/0307150

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Abstract. The selection of clusters of galaxies through their X-ray emission has proved to be an extremely powerful technique over the past four decades. The growth of X-ray astronomy has provided the community with a steadily more detailed view of the intracluster medium in clusters. In this review I will assess how far X-ray surveys of clusters have progressed and how far they still have to travel.

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
• In the Beginning...
• The End of the First Age of X-ray Astronomy?
• X-RAY IMAGING BEGINS WITH EINSTEIN
• Detailed Imaging and Spectra
• The EMSS
• THE X-RAY DARK AGES
• ROSAT All-Sky Survey
• ROSAT Pointed Observations
• THE MIDDLE AGE OF X-RAY ASTRONOMY?
• ASCA Observations
• The Unfulfilled Potential of ABRIXAS
• Chandra and XMM-Newton
• CAN "EDGE'S LAW" HOLD?
• CONCLUSIONS
• A CODA
• REFERENCES