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Updated catalog of 132,684 galaxy clusters and evolution of brightest cluster galaxies

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-12 v1
Authors: Z. L. Wen , J. L. Han
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Abstract

We identified 132,684 clusters in the redshift range of 0.05<z<0.8 from SDSS DR8. The spectroscopic redshifts of 52,683 clusters have been included in the catalog using SDSS DR9 data. We found that BCGs are more luminous in richer clusters and at higher redshifts.

Keywords

galaxy clusters brightest cluster galaxies redshift SDSS luminosity cluster richness evolution

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@article{arxiv.1301.0871,
  title  = {Updated catalog of 132,684 galaxy clusters and evolution of brightest cluster galaxies},
  author = {Z. L. Wen and J. L. Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0871},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

It will be appear in the proceeding of IAUS295. The updated catalog of galaxy clusters is now available at http://zmtt.bao.ac.cn/galaxy_clusters

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