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SPIDERS is the spectroscopic follow-up effort of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) project for the identification of X-ray selected galaxy clusters. We present our catalogue of 2740 visually inspected galaxy clusters as a part of…

Identifying galaxy clustering at high redshift (i.e. z > 1) is essential to our understanding of the current cosmological model. However, at increasing redshift, clusters evolve considerably in star-formation activity and so are less likely…

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We present a catalog of detailed visual classifications for 14034 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 4 (DR4). Our sample includes nearly all spectroscopically-targeted galaxies in the redshift range 0.01<z<0.1 down…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Preethi B. Nair , Roberto G. Abraham

Weak lensing surveys are emerging as an important tool for the construction of "mass selected" clusters of galaxies. We evaluate both the efficiency and completeness of a weak lensing selection by combining a dense, complete redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Margaret J. Geller , Michael J. Kurtz , Ian P. Dell'Antonio , Massimo Ramella , Daniel G. Fabricant

We explore the degrees of freedom required to jointly fit projected and redshift-space clustering of galaxies selected in three bins of stellar mass from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Main Galaxy Sample (SDSS MGS) using a subhalo abundance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Joseph DeRose , Matthew R. Becker , Risa H. Wechsler

We present a new cluster-finding algorithm based on a combination of the Voronoi Tessellation and Friends-Of-Friends methods. The algorithm utilises probability distribution functions derived from a photometric redshift analysis and is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lee Clewley , Caroline van Breukelen , David Bonfield

A direct approach to studying the galaxy-halo connection is to analyze groups and clusters of galaxies that trace the underlying dark matter halos, emphasizing the importance of identifying galaxy clusters and their associated brightest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Hai-Xia Ma , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Suchetha Cooray , Yongda Zhu

Clusters of galaxies are important laboratories for understanding both galaxy evolution and constraining cosmological quantities. Any analysis of clusters, however, is best done when one can reliably determine which galaxies are members of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J. Brunner , L. M. Lubin

Using photometric data from the Dark Energy Survey and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, we estimate photometric redshifts for 105 million galaxies using the nearest-neighbour algorithm. From such a large data base, 151,244 clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-07 Z. L. Wen , J. L. Han

Measuring cosmic shear in wide-field imaging surveys requires accurate knowledge of the redshift distribution of all sources. The clustering-redshift technique exploits the angular cross-correlation of a target galaxy sample with unknown…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 J. L. van den Busch , H. Hildebrandt , A. H. Wright , C. B. Morrison , C. Blake , B. Joachimi , T. Erben , C. Heymans , K. Kuijken , E. N. Taylor

We present a selection of candidates of clusters and protoclusters of galaxies identified in the photometric data of the HSC-SSP Wide Public Data Release 3 (PDR3), spanning the redshift range $\rm 0.1 \leq z \leq 2$. The selection method,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Marcelo C. Vicentin , Laerte Sodré , Michael A. Strauss , Erik V. R. de Lima , Pablo Araya-Araya

We present 279 galaxy cluster candidates at $z > 1.3$ selected from the 94 deg$^{2}$ Spitzer South Pole Telescope Deep Field (SSDF) survey. We use a simple algorithm to select candidate high-redshift clusters of galaxies based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Rettura , J. Martinez-Manso , D. Stern , S. Mei , M. L. N. Ashby , M. Brodwin , D. Gettings , A. H. Gonzalez , S. A. Stanford , J. G. Bartlett

We present a new, objectively selected, sample of galaxy overdensities detected in the Hubble Space Telescope Medium Deep Survey. These clusters/groups were found using an automated procedure which involved searching for statistically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-12 E. J. Ostrander , R. C. Nichol , K. U. Ratnatunga , R. E. Griffiths

We measure the topology (genus curve) of the galaxy distribution in a mock redshift catalog designed to resemble the upcoming Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The catalog, drawn from a large N-body simulation of a Lambda-CDM cos- mological…

Identifying galaxy clusters through overdensities of galaxies in photometric surveys is the oldest and arguably the most economic and mass-sensitive detection method, compared to X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect surveys that detect the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-01 J. E. Geach , J. A. Peacock

We discuss a method to build up and study a sample of distant galaxies, with 2<z<5, using the gravitational amplification effect in cluster-lenses for which the mass distribution is well known. The candidates are selected close to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Pello , J. P. Kneib , G. Bruzual , J. M. Miralles

We present GLIMPSE - Gravitational Lensing Inversion and MaPping with Sparse Estimators - a new algorithm to generate density reconstructions in three dimensions from photometric weak lensing measurements. This is an extension of earlier…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Adrienne Leonard , François Lanusse , Jean-Luc Starck

We study the clustering of galaxies detected at $i<22.5$ in the Science Verification observations of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Two-point correlation functions are measured using $2.3\times 10^6$ galaxies over a contiguous 116 deg$^2$…

An extensive redshift survey has been conducted on a sample of 15 nearby (0.01 < z < 0.05) clusters of galaxies. A total number of 860 redshifts were determined by fitting of emission--lines and/or cross-correlation techniques. Of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Stein

Supervised artificial neural networks are used to predict useful properties of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, in this instance morphological classifications, spectral types and redshifts. By giving the trained networks unseen…