A MaxBCG Catalog of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Benjamin P. Koester,Timothy A. McKay,J. Annis,Risa H. Wechsler,August E. Evrard,Lindsey Bleem,Matthew R. Becker,David Johnston,Erin Sheldon,Robert C. Nichol,Christopher J. Miller,Ryan Scranton,N. A. Bahcall,J. C. Barentine,Howard Brewington,J. Brinkmann,Mike Harvanek,S. J. Kleinman,J. Krzesinski,D. Long,Atsuko Nitta,Donald P. Schneider,S. Sneddin,W. Voges,Donald G. York +24 more
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In this article, a catalog of galaxy clusters selected using the maxBCG redsequence method from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric data is presented, which includes 13,823 clusters with velocity dispersions greater than 400 km/s.Abstract:
We present a catalog of galaxy clusters selected using the maxBCG redsequence method from Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric data. This catalog includes 13,823 clusters with velocity dispersions greater than 400 km/s, and is the largest galaxy cluster catalog assembled to date. They are selected in an approximately volume-limited way from a 0.5 Gpc^3 region covering 7500 square degrees of sky between redshifts 0.1 and 0.3. (ABRIGDED)read more
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