Optical/Infrared Survey of Galaxy Clusters
Abstract
In this contribution the ongoing effort to build a statistical sample of clusters of galaxies over a wide range of redshifts to study the evolution of clusters and member galaxies is reviewed. The starting point for this project has been the list of candidate clusters identified from the I-band EIS-WIDE survey data. Since the completion of this survey, new optical/infrared observations have become available and have been used to confirm some of these candidates using the photometric data alone or in combination with the results of follow-up spectroscopic observations. Our preliminary results show that the yield of real physical associations from the original catalog is conservatively >60% and that a large sample of clusters in the southern hemisphere, extending to high-redshifts, is within reach.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0012254,
title = {Optical/Infrared Survey of Galaxy Clusters},
author = {Luiz da Costa and S. Arnouts and S. Bardelli and C. Benoist and A. Biviano and S. Borgani and W. Boschin and T. Erben and M. Girardi and H. E. Jorgensen and L. F. Olsen and M. Ramella and M. Schirmer and P. Schneider and M. Scodeggio and E. Zucca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0012254},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To appear in the proceeding of the ESO/ECF/STScI Workhop on Deep Fields, Oct. 9.-12.,2000; 7 pages, 3 figures