A MaxBCG Catalog of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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Benjamin P. Koester · University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

T. A. McKay · University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

J. Annis · Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Risa H. Wechsler · Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology

A. E. Evrard · University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

L. E. Bleem · University of Chicago

M. R. Becker

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)

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Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

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Published in: The Astrophysical Journal

Volume 660, Issue 1, pp. 239-255

DOI: 10.1086/509599

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A MaxBCG Catalog of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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