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The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is conducting a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect survey over large areas of the southern sky, searching for massive galaxy clusters to high redshift. In this preliminary study, we focus on a 40 square-degree…

The ROSAT Deep Cluster Survey (RDCS) has provided a new large deep sample of X-ray selected galaxy clusters. Observables such as the flux number counts n(S), the redshift distribution n(z) and the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) over a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Borgani , P. Rosati , P. Tozzi , C. Norman

The XMM Cluster Survey (XCS) is a serendipitous search for galaxy clusters using all publicly available data in the XMM-Newton Science Archive. Its main aims are to measure cosmological parameters and trace the evolution of X-ray scaling…

We have started PISCES project; a panoramic imaging and spectroscopic survey of distant clusters on Subaru. It exploits the unique wide-field imaging capability of Suprime-Cam, which provides a 34'x27' field of view corresponding to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tadayuki Kodama , the PISCES team

We apply a matched-filter cluster detection algorithm to the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) i-band data for the Deep-1, Deep-2, Deep-3 and Deep-4 fields covering a total of 4square degrees. To test the implemented…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. F. Olsen , C. Benoist , A. Cappi , S. Maurogordato , A. Mazure , E. Slezak , C. Adami , C. Ferrari , F. Martel

Gravitational lensing magnification is measured with a significance of 9.7 sigma on a large sample of galaxy clusters in the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). This survey covers ~154 deg^2 and contains over 18,000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Jes Ford , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Thomas Erben , Clotilde Laigle , Martha Milkeraitis , Christopher Morrison

As the largest, clearly defined building blocks of our Universe, galaxy clusters are interesting astrophysical laboratories and important probes for cosmology. X-ray surveys for galaxy clusters provide one of the best ways to characterise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Hans Boehringer , Gayoung Chon , Joerg Retzlaff , Joachim Truemper , Klaus Meisenheimer , Norbert Schartel

I review recent observational progress in the search for and study of distant galaxy clusters in the X-ray band, with particular emphasis on the evolution of the abundance of X-ray clusters out to z~1. Several on-going deep X-ray surveys…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piero Rosati

Sub/millimeter galaxies are a key population for the study of galaxy evolution because the majority of star formation at high redshifts occurred in galaxies deeply embedded in dust. To search for this population, we have performed an…

We present the first high redshift (0.3 < z < 1.1) galaxy clusters found by systematically identifying optical low surface brightness fluctuations in the background sky. Using spectra obtained with the Keck telescope and I-band images from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Dennis Zaritsky , Amy E. Nelson , Julianne J. Dalcanton , Anthony H. Gonzalez

Abridged] We present here new results on the space density of rich, optically-selected, clusters of galaxies at low redshift (z<0.15). These results are based on the application of the matched filter cluster-finding algorithm to 1067 deg2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. Bramel , R. C. Nichol , A. C. Pope

The Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS) is among the first galaxy redshift surveys to sample a reasonably fair volume of the local Universe. On the largest scales (>> 100/h Mpc), the galaxy distribution appears smooth; on relatively small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. L. Tucker , H. Lin , S. Shectman

We present new results on the clustering and three-dimensional distribution of radio galaxies from the Texas-Oxford NVSS Structure (TONS) survey. The TONS survey was constructed to look at the distribution of radio galaxies in a region of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Kate Brand , Steve Rawlings , Joe Tufts , Gary Hill

We present a large X-ray selected serendipitous cluster survey based on a novel joint analysis of archival Chandra and XMM-Newton data. The survey provides enough depth to reach clusters of flux of $\approx 10^{-14} {ergs} {cm}^{-2}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 J. R. Peterson , J. G. Jernigan , R. R. Gupta , J. Bankert , S. M. Kahn

X-ray selected surveys of clusters of galaxies can distinguish between hierarchical models of the growth of structure in the Universe. Here we present the first results from an X-ray selected, flux and surface brightness limited deep survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. R. Jones , C. Scharf , H. Ebeling , E. Perlman , G. Wegner , M. Malkan , D. Horner

We have assembled a sample of 115 galaxy clusters at 0.1<z<1.3 with archived Chandra ACIS-I observations. We present X-ray images of the clusters and make available region files containing contours of the smoothed X-ray emission. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. J. Maughan , C. Jones , W. Forman , L. Van Speybroeck

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide a complete imaging and spectroscopic survey of the high-latitude northern sky. The 2D survey will image the sky in five colors and will contain nearly 5 x 107 galaxies to g ~ 23m. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Neta A. Bahcall

We calculate the all-sky number of galaxy clusters that are expected to be gravitationally lensed by foreground massive clusters. We describe the redshift and number distributions of clusters using a Press-Schechter analysis, and model the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Asantha R. Cooray , Gilbert P. Holder , Jean M. Quashnock