A MaxBCG Catalog of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
dc.contributor.author | Koester, Benjamin P. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | McKay, Timothy A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Annis, James | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Wechsler, Risa H. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Evrard, August E. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Bleem, L. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Becker, M.R. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Johnston, D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Sheldon, E. S. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Nichol, Robert C. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Miller, Christopher J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Scranton, R. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Bahcall, Neta A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Barentine, J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Brewington, H. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Brinkmann, J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Harvanek, Mike | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Kleinman, Scot | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Krzesinski, Jurek | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Long, Dan | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Nitta, Atsuko | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Schneider, Donald P. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Sneddin, S. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Voges, W. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | York, D. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-08-14T19:13:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-08-14T19:13:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007-05-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Koester, BP; McKay, TA; Annis, J; Wechsler, RH; Evrard, AE; Bleem, L; Becker, M; Johnston, D; Sheldon, E; Nichol, R; Miller, C; Scranton, R; Bahcall, N; Barentine, J; Brewington, H; Brinkmann, J; Harvanek, M; Kleinman, S; Krzesinski, J; Long, D; Nitta, A; Schneider, DP; Sneddin, S; Voges, W; York, D. (2007). Astrophysical Journal, 660: 239-255. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60627> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0004-637X | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701265 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60627 | |
dc.description.abstract | We present a catalog of galaxy clusters selected using the maxBCG red-sequence method from Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric data. This catalog includes 13,823 clusters with velocity dispersions greater than ~400 km s-1 and is the largest galaxy cluster catalog assembled to date. They are selected in an approximately volume-limited way from a 0.5 Gpc3 region covering 7500 deg2 of sky between redshifts 0.1 and 0.3. Each cluster contains between 10 and 190 E/S0 ridgeline galaxies brighter than 0.4L* within a scaled radius R200. The tight relation between ridgeline color and redshift provides an accurate photometric redshift estimate for every cluster. Photometric redshift errors are shown by comparison to spectroscopic redshifts to be small (?z~=0.01), essentially independent of redshift, and well determined throughout the redshift range. Runs of maxBCG on realistic mock catalogs suggest that the sample is more than 90% pure and more than 85% complete for clusters with masses >=1x1014 Msolar. Spectroscopic measurements of cluster members are used to examine line-of-sight projection as a contaminant in the identification of brightest cluster galaxies and cluster member galaxies. Spectroscopic data are also used to demonstrate the correlation between optical richness and velocity dispersion. Comparison to the combined NORAS and REFLEX X-ray-selected cluster catalogs shows that X-ray-luminous clusters are found among the optically richer maxBCG clusters. This paper is the first in a series that will consider the properties of these clusters, their galaxy populations, and their implications for cosmology. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Univ Chicago Press | en_US |
dc.title | A MaxBCG Catalog of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | AA(Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | bkoester@umich.edu, tamckay@umich.edu.), AB(Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.), AC(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL.), AD(Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Hubble Fellow.), AE(Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.), AF(Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.), AG(Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | bkoester@umich.edu, tamckay@umich.edu. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | bkoester@umich.edu, tamckay@umich.edu. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | bkoester@umich.edu, tamckay@umich.edu.), AH(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.), AI(Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University, New York, NY.), AJ(Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK.), AK(Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, NOAO, La Serena, Chile.), AL(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.), AM(Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, NJ.), AN(Apache Point Observatory, Sunspot, NM.), AO(Apache Point Observatory, Sunspot, NM.), AP(Apache Point Observatory, Sunspot, NM.), AQ(Apache Point Observatory, Sunspot, NM.), AR(Apache Point Observatory, Sunspot, NM.), AS(Apache Point Observatory, Sunspot, NM. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Mount Suhora Observatory, Cracow Pedagogical University, Cracow, Poland.), AT(Apache Point Observatory, Sunspot, NM.), AU(Apache Point Observatory, Sunspot, NM.), AV(Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.), AW(Apache(TRUNCATED) | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/60627/1/Koester2007MaxBCG.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/509599 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Astrophysics (Physics, Department of) |
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