Abstract
We present and discuss the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of the ROSAT Brightest Cluster sample (BCS), an X-ray flux limited sample of clusters of galaxies in the northern hemisphere compiled from ROSAT All-Sky Survey data. The BCS allows the local cluster XLF to be determined with unprecedented accuracy over almost three decades in X-ray luminosity and provides an important reference for searches for cluster evolution at higher redshifts. We find the significance of evolution in both the XLF amplitude and in the characteristic cluster luminosity L -->X to be less than 1.8 ? within the redshift range covered by our sample thereby disproving previous claims of strong evolution within z 0.2.
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