Detecting Clusters of Galaxies at High Redshift with the Spitzer Space Telescope
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We present an infrared adaptation of the Cluster Red-Sequence method. We modify the two filter technique of Gladders & Yee (2000) to identify clusters based on their R-[3.6] color. We apply the technique to the 4 degree^2 Spitzer First Look Survey and detect 123 clusters spanning the redshift range 0.09 < z < 1.4. Our results demonstrate that the Spitzer Space Telescope will play an important role in the discovery of large samples of high redshift galaxy clusters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0503638,
title = {Detecting Clusters of Galaxies at High Redshift with the Spitzer Space Telescope},
author = {Gillian Wilson and Adam Muzzin and Mark Lacy and the FLS Team},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0503638},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
To appear in the conference proceedings "Spitzer Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe, held Nov. 2004 in Pasadena, 4 pages including 4 figures