MACS

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Abbreviation of MAssive Cluster Survey A survey for a statistically complete sample of distant (0.7>z>0.3) very X-ray luminous massive clusters of galaxies (“galaxy clusters”), culled from the ROSAT Bright Source Catalogue of X-ray sources

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