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We present a modified adaptive matched filter algorithm designed to identify clusters of galaxies in wide-field imaging surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The cluster-finding technique is fully adaptive to imaging surveys with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Feng Dong , Elena Pierpaoli , James E. Gunn , Risa H. Wechsler

We select galaxy cluster candidates from the high-redshift (BEST_Z > 0.9) end of the first SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey (eRASS1) galaxy cluster catalogue, for which we obtain moderately deep J-band imaging data with the OMEGA2000 camera at…

Mass and concentration of clusters of galaxies are related and evolving with redshift. We study the properties of a sample of 31 massive galaxy clusters at high redshift, 0.8 < z < 1.5, using weak and strong lensing observations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mauro Sereno , Giovanni Covone

Aims: We present a new method that uses luminosity or stellar mass functions combined with clustering measurements to select samples of galaxies at different redshifts likely to follow a progenitor-to-descendant relationship. As the method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Nelson Padilla , Daniel Christlein , Eric Gawiser , Danilo Marchesini

We analyze the small-scale clustering in "MegaZ-LRG", a large photometric-redshift catalogue of Luminous Red Galaxies extracted from the imaging dataset of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. MegaZ-LRG, presented in a companion paper, spans the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 Chris Blake , Adrian Collister , Ofer Lahav

We present first results on the use of a colour space filter for detecting galaxy clusters at cosmological redshifts in the XMM Large Scale Structure Survey. All clusters studied, but one, are successfully colour--detected in spite of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Andreon , J. Willis , H. Quintana , I. Valtchanov , M. Pierre , F. Pacaud

Despite decades of study, we still do not fully understand why some massive galaxies abruptly switch off their star formation in the early Universe, and what causes their rapid transition to the red sequence. Post-starburst galaxies provide…

We present here an efficient method for selecting high luminosity and massive high redshift clusters of galaxies, crucially important tools in cosmology. By selecting bright and extremely X-ray loud (high F(X)/F(V)) sources, we were able to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Cagnoni , M. Elvis , D. -W. Kim , P. Mazzotta , J. -S. Huang , A. Celotti

The evolution of galaxies depends on their masses and local environments; understanding when and how environmental quenching starts to operate remains a challenge. Furthermore, studies of the high-redshift regime have been limited to…

The early Universe at redshift z\sim6-11 marks the reionization of the intergalactic medium, following the formation of the first generation of stars. However, those young galaxies at a cosmic age of \lesssim 500 million years (Myr, at z…

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 the galaxy-galaxy angular correlations as a function of photometric redshift in a deep-wide galaxy survey centered on the Hubble Deep Field South. Images were obtained with the Big Throughput Camera on the Blanco 4m telescope at…

Recent wide-field imaging observations of the X-ray luminous cluster RDCSJ1252.9-2927 at z=1.24 uncovered several galaxy groups that appear to be embedded in filamentary structure extending from the cluster core. We make a spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Tanaka , C. Lidman , R. G. Bower , R. Demarco , A. Finoguenov , T. Kodama , F. Nakata , P. Rosati

We describe the first optical survey of absorption systems associated with galaxy clusters at z= 0.3-0.9. We have cross-correlated SDSS DR3 quasars with high-redshift cluster/group candidates from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey. We have…

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 present accurate photometric redshifts for galaxies observed by the Cluster Lensing and Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). CLASH observed 25 massive galaxy cluster cores with the Hubble Space Telescope in 16 filters spanning 0.2 - 1.7…

Measurements of galaxy clustering are now becoming possible over a range of redshifts out to z=3. We use a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation to compute the expected evolution of the galaxy correlation function with redshift. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. M. Baugh , A. J. Benson , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , C. G. Lacey

Testing theories of hierarchical structure formation requires estimating the distribution of galaxy morphologies and its change with redshift. One aspect of this investigation involves identifying galaxies with disturbed morphologies (e.g.,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 P. E. Freeman , R. Izbicki , A. B. Lee , J. A. Newman , C. J. Conselice , A. M. Koekemoer , J. M. Lotz , M. Mozena

We have carried out a joint photometric and structural analysis of red sequence galaxies in four clusters at a mean redshift of z ~ 1.25 using optical and near-IR HST imaging reaching to at least 3 magnitudes fainter than $M^*$. As…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-07 R. De Propris , M. N. Bremer , S. Phillipps

The TexOx Cluster (TOC) Survey uses overdensities of radiosources in the NVSS to trace clusters of galaxies. The links between radiosources and rich environments make this a powerful way to find clusters which may potentially be overlooked…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steve Croft , Steve Rawlings , Gary J. Hill