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In this paper we serendipitously identify X-ray cluster candidates using XMM-Newton archival observations complemented by 5-band optical photometric follow-up observations (r~23 mag) as part of the X-ray Identification (XID) programme. Our…

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…

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

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

This paper presents preliminary results of a spectroscopic survey being conducted at the VLT of fields with optically-selected cluster candidates identified in the EIS I-band survey. Here we report our findings for three candidates selected…

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has obtained 450 square degrees of photometric scan data, in five bands (u',g',r',i',z'), which we use to identify clusters of galaxies. We illustrate how we do star-galaxy separation, and present a simple and…

We present new spectroscopic data in the field of five high-redshift (z>=0.6) candidate galaxy clusters, drawn from the EIS Cluster Candidate Catalog. A total of 327 spectra were obtained using FORS1 at the VLT, out of which 266 are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. F. Olsen , E. Zucca , S. Bardelli , C. Benoist , L. da Costa , H. E. Jørgensen , A. Biviano , M. Ramella

We present a sample of 383 X-ray selected galaxy groups and clusters with spectroscopic redshift measurements (up to z ~ 0.79) from the 2XMMi/SDSS Galaxy Cluster Survey. The X-ray cluster candidates were selected as serendipitously detected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 A. Takey , A. Schwope , G. Lamer

Statistical overdensities of radiosources in the Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS) are used as signposts to identify high-redshift clusters of galaxies. These potential clusters have been observed at 20 and 13 cm at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. J. Buttery , G. Cotter , R. W. Hunstead , E. M. Sadler

We investigate, using simulated galaxy catalogues, the completeness of searches for massive clusters of galaxies in redshift surveys or imaging surveys with photometric redshift estimates, i.e. what fraction of clusters (M>10^14/h Msun) are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin White , C. S. Kochanek

[Abridged] We present a homogeneous and complete catalogue of optical groups identified in the purely flux limited (17.5<=I<=24.0) VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). We use mock catalogues extracted from the MILLENNIUM simulation, to correct for…

AIMS: We present a weak lensing search of galaxy clusters in the 4 deg2 of the CFHT Legacy Survey Deep. This work aims at building a mass-selected sample of clusters. METHODS: We use the deep i' band images to perform weak lensing mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Raphael Gavazzi , Genevieve Soucail

We propose a novel method to reconstruct high-resolution three-dimensional mass maps using data from photometric weak-lensing surveys. We apply an adaptive LASSO algorithm to perform a sparsity-based reconstruction on the assumption that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-03 Xiangchong Li , Naoki Yoshida , Masamune Oguri , Shiro Ikeda , Wentao Luo

We report on the progress of our search for serendipitous distant X-ray galaxy clusters in the ROSAT PSPC pointed observations archive. The initial aim of our work is to measure the X-ray luminosity function of clusters down to 4 x 10^-14…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. J. Burke , C. A. Collins , R. C. Nichol , A. K. Romer , B. Holden , R. M. Sharples , M. P. Ulmer

We have developed a novel method of determining 2D radial density profiles for astronomical systems of discrete objects using Voronoi tessellations. This Voronoi-based method was tested against the standard annulus-based method on 5…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-04 Veronika Dornan , William E. Harris

In this paper, we present the tools used to search for galaxy clusters in the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), and our first results. The cluster detection is based on an implementation of the optimal filtering technique that enables us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 M. Radovich , E. Puddu , F. Bellagamba , M. Roncarelli , L. Moscardini , S. Bardelli , A. Grado , F. Getman , M. Maturi , Z. Huang , N. Napolitano , J. McFarland , E. Valentijn , M. Bilicki

We describe the scientific motivation behind, and the methodology of, the Stanford Cluster Search (StaCS), a program to compile a catalog of optically selected clusters of galaxies at intermediate and high (0.3 < z < 1) redshifts. The…

Based on the photometric redshift catalog of Zou H. et al. (2019), we apply a fast clustering algorithm to identify 540,432 galaxy clusters at $z\lesssim1$ in the DESI legacy imaging surveys, which cover a sky area of about 20,000 deg$^2$.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-21 Hu Zou , Jinghua Gao , Xin Xu , Xu Zhou , Jun Ma , Zhimin Zhou , Tianmeng Zhang , Jundan Nie , Jiali Wang , Suijian Xue

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