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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…

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gillian Wilson , Adam Muzzin , Mark Lacy , the FLS Team

Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) are commonly found at the centers of massive galaxies. Estimating their masses ($M_\text{BH}$) is crucial for understanding galaxy-SMBH co-evolution. We present WISE2MBH, an efficient algorithm that uses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-21 J. Hernández-Yévenes , N. Nagar , V. Arratia , T. H. Jarrett

We find clusters and superclusters of galaxies using the Data Release 1 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Density fields with smoothing lengthst of 10 and 0.8 Mpc/h are calculated. We found that galaxies and clusters in a high-density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Einasto , E. Tago , M. Einasto , E. Saar

Preliminary results of a search for distant clusters of galaxies using the recently released I-band data obtained by the ESO Imaging Survey are presented. In this first installment of the survey, data covering about 3 square degrees in…

We present an analysis of the clustering of galaxies from z ~ 2 to the present day using the WIRCam Deep Survey (WIRDS). WIRDS combines deep near-infrared data with the deep optical data from the CFHTLS Deep fields, providing a photometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 R. M. Bielby , V. Gonzalez-Perez , H. J. McCracken , O. Ilbert , E. Daddi , O. Le Fèvre , P. Hudelot , J. -P. Kneib , Y. Mellier , C. Willott

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mapped the entire sky at mid-infrared wavelengths 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 microns. The mission was primarily designed to extract point sources, leaving resolved and extended sources unexplored. We…

In order to enlarge publicly available optical cluster catalogs, in particular at high redshift, we have performed a systematic search for clusters of galaxies in the CFHTLS. We used the Le Phare photometric redshifts for the galaxies…

The results of a search for distant clusters of galaxies performed using the I-band data obtained by the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS) are presented. Cluster candidates are identified using a matched filter algorithm, that provides not only an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Scodeggio , L. F. Olsen , L. N. da Costa

Using twin ground-based telescopes, the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) scanned both equatorial hemi- spheres, detecting more than 500 million stars and resolving more than 1.5 million galaxies in the near-infrared (1 - 2.2 microns)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas Jarrett

Superclusters of galaxies mark the large-scale overdense regions in the Universe. Superclusters provide an ideal environment to study structure formation and to search for the emission of the intergalactic medium such as cosmic filaments…

We describe an automated method, the Cut & Enhance method (CE) for detecting clusters of galaxies in multi-color optical imaging surveys. This method uses simple color cuts, combined with a density enhancement algorithm, to up-weight pairs…

A new method for a simultaneous search for clusters of galaxies in X-ray photon maps and optical galaxy maps is described. The merging of X-ray and optical data improves the source identification so that a large amount of telescope time for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Schuecker , Hans Boehringer , Wolfgang Voges

As the densest galaxy environments in the universe, clusters are vital to our understanding of the role that environment plays in galaxy formation and evolution. Unfortunately, the evolution of high-redshift cluster galaxies is poorly…

Key cosmological applications require the three-dimensional galaxy distribution on the entire celestial sphere. These include measuring the gravitational pull on the Local Group, estimating the large-scale bulk flow and testing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-18 Maciej Bilicki , Thomas H. Jarrett , John A. Peacock , Michelle E. Cluver , Louise Steward

Clusters of galaxies can be used as powerful probes to study astrophysical processes on large scales, test theories of the growth of structure, and constrain cosmological models. The driving science goal of the SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey…

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

Imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is used to measure the empirical size-richness relation for a large sample of galaxy clusters. Using population subtraction methods, we determine the radius at which the cluster galaxy number…

Galaxy clusters play a crucial role in constraining cosmological parameters. Cluster detection and characterization have therefore become an important field of modern cosmology. In this work, we aim at constructing reasonably representative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-16 Cristiano De Boni , Nabila Aghanim , Marian Douspis , Elie Soubrié , Roberto De Propris

We used star density maps obtained from 2MASS to obtain a sample of star clusters in the entire Galactic Plane with |b|<20deg. A total of 1788 star cluster candidates are identified in this survey. Among those are 681 previously known open…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Froebrich , A. Scholz , C. L. Raftery