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We investigate the influence of environment on brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) evolution using a sample of 63 clusters at 0.3 < z < 0.9 drawn primarily from the Las Campanas Distant Cluster Survey and follow-up V, I, and K' photometry. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Amy E. Nelson , Anthony H. Gonzalez , Dennis Zaritsky , Julianne J. Dalcanton

To test whether clusters have rising mass to light ratios at large radii and to estimate the amplitude of the density fluctuation spectrum on the scale of 10\hmpc\ the Canadian Network for Observational Cosmology (CNOC) cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlberg

The Cosmology Redshift Survey of the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST-CRS) will provide redshift measurements of galaxies and quasars over 5700{\degsq} in the southern hemisphere. As targets for the 4MOST-CRS, we present…

We have used the ROSAT All-Sky Survey around the North Ecliptic Pole to construct a complete sample of galaxy clusters. The deep and contiguous nature of the survey affords us the opportunity to examine large-scale structure in the Universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Christopher R. Mullis

The details of the stellar mass assembly of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) remain an unresolved problem in galaxy formation. We have developed a novel approach that allows us to construct a sample of clusters that form an evolutionary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yen-Ting Lin , Mark Brodwin , Anthony H. Gonzalez , Paul Bode , Peter R. M. Eisenhardt , S. A. Stanford , Alexey Vikhlinin

We cross-correlate the 100 um Improved Reprocessing of the IRAS Survey (IRIS) map and galaxy clusters at 0.1 < z < 0.3 in the maxBCG catalogue taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, measuring an angular cross-power spectrum over multipole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-08 Adam D. Hincks , Amir Hajian , Graeme E. Addison

We present an analysis of the X-ray emission for a complete sample of 288 Abell clusters spanning the redshift range 0.016<= z <= 0.09 from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. This sample is based on our 20cm VLA survey of nearby Abell clusters. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael J. Ledlow , Wolfgang Voges , Frazer N. Owen , Jack O. Burns

We cross-identified the ROSAT Bright Source Catalog (RBSC) and the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) to construct the RBSC-NVSS sample of the brightest X-ray sources (>= 0.1 counts/s or ~1E-12 ergs/cm/cm/s in the 0.1-2.4 keV band) that are also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. E. Bauer , J. J. Condon , T. X. Thuan , J. J. Broderick

This is the fourth of a series of papers on low X-ray luminosity galaxy clusters. The sample comprises 45 galaxy clusters with X-ray luminosities fainter than 0.7 10$^{44}$ erg s$^{-1}$ at redshifts lower than 0.2 in the regions of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-17 A. L. O'Mill , M. V. Alonso , C. Valotto , J. L. Nilo Castellón

[Abridged] We report the discovery of JKCS041, a massive near-infrared selected cluster of galaxies z=1.9. The cluster was originally discovered using a modified red-sequence method and was also detected in follow-up Chandra data as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Andreon , B. Maughan , G. Trinchieri , J. Kurk

Candidate clusters of galaxies drawn from the sample identified from the moderately deep I-band data of the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS), have been used for follow-up optical/infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations. The observations…

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

We present weak lensing mass estimates of seven shear-selected galaxy cluster candidates from the Deep Lens Survey. The clusters were previously identified as mass peaks in convergence maps of 8.6 sq. deg of R band imaging, and followed up…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 Alexandra Abate , D. Wittman , V. E. Margoniner , S. L. Bridle , Perry Gee , J. Anthony Tyson , Ian P. Dell Antonio

The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) is a $\sim$100 square degree, two-filter imaging survey in the $R_C$ and $z'$ filters, designed primarily to locate and characterise galaxy clusters to redshifts as high as $z=1.4$. This paper provides…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Michael D. Gladders , Howard K. C. Yee

We present the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) a survey of 20 fields containing distant galaxy clusters with redshifts ranging from 0.4 to almost 1.0. Candidate clusters were chosen from among the brightest objects identified in the Las…

Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) are typically massive ellipticals at the centers of clusters. They are believed to experience strong environmental processing, and their mass assembly and star formation history are still debated. We have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 G. Castignani , M. Radovich , F. Combes , P. Salomé , M. Maturi , L. Moscardini , S. Bardelli , C. Giocoli , G. Lesci , F. Marulli , E. Puddu , M. Sereno

We present the second ROSAT all-sky survey source catalogue, hereafter referred to as the 2RXS catalogue. This is the second publicly released ROSAT catalogue of point-like sources obtained from the ROSAT all-sky survey (RASS) observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-30 Th. Boller , M. J. Freyberg , J. Truemper , F. Haberl , W. Voges , K. Nandra

This is the third paper in a series that reports on our investigation of the clustering properties of AGNs identified in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In this paper, we extend the redshift range to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mirko Krumpe , Takamitsu Miyaji , Alison L. Coil , Hector Aceves

Investigations of the cluster environment of radio sources have not shown a correlation between radio power and degree of clustering. However, it has been demonstrated that extended X-ray luminosity and galaxy clustering do exhibit a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. A. Miller , F. N. Owen , J. O. Burns , M. J. Ledlow , W. Voges

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…