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An extensive redshift survey has been conducted on a sample of 15 nearby (0.01 < z < 0.05) clusters of galaxies. A total number of 860 redshifts were determined by fitting of emission--lines and/or cross-correlation techniques. Of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Stein

We present an extensive spectroscopic follow-up campaign of 29 strong lensing (SL) selected galaxy clusters discovered primarily in the Second Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS-2). Our spectroscopic analysis yields redshifts for 52…

We report the discovery of a cluster of galaxies via its weak gravitational lensing effect on background galaxies, the first spectroscopically confirmed cluster to be discovered through its gravitational effects rather than by its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. Wittman , J. A. Tyson , V. E. Margoniner , J. G. Cohen , I. P. Dell'Antonio

We present and analyze the optical and X-ray catalogs of moderate-redshift cluster candidates from the ROSAT Optical X-ray Survey, or ROXS. The survey covers 4.8 square degrees (23 ROSAT PSPC pointings). The cross-correlated cluster…

We present a structure finding algorithm designed to identify galaxy groups in photometric redshift data sets: the probability friends-of-friends (pFoF) algorithm. This algorithm is derived by combining the friends-of-friends algorithm in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I-hui Li , Howard K. C. Yee

We describe an objective and automated method for detecting clusters of galaxies from optical imaging data. This method is a variant of the so-called `matched-filter' technique pioneered by Postman et al. (1996). With simultaneous use of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Wataru Kawasaki , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Mamoru Doi , Sadanori Okamura

We present a catalog of 200 clusters of galaxies serendipitously detected in 647 ROSAT PSPC pointings covering 158 square degrees. This is one of the largest X-ray selected cluster samples, comparable in size only to the ROSAT All-Sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Vikhlinin. B. R. McNamara , W. Forman , C. Jones , H. Quintana , A. Hornstrup

Weak gravitational lensing has the potential to select clusters independently of their baryon content, dynamical state, and star formation history. We present steps toward the first shear-selected sample of clusters, from the Deep Lens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. E. Margoniner , the Deep Lens Survey Team

We report on the first results from a redshift survey of a flux-limited sample of X-ray clusters selected serendipitously from the ROSAT PSPC data archive. We spectroscopically confirm 15 clusters in the range 0.3 < z < 0.7, to a flux limit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. A. Collins , D. J. Burke , A. K. Romer , R. M. Sharples , R. C. Nichol

3D Voronoi's tessellation method was first applied to identify groups of galaxies in the structure of a supercluster. The sample under consideration consists of more than 7000 galaxies of the Local Supercluster (LS) with radial velocities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 O. V. Melnyk , A. A. Elyiv , I. B. Vavilova

We determine the distance to 38 clusters of galaxies in the redshift range 0.14 < z < 0.89 using X-ray data from Chandra and Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect data from the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Bonamente , M. Joy , S. La Roque , J. Carlstrom , E. Reese , K. Dawson

We present a new algorithm to detect inter-cluster galaxy filaments based upon the assumption that the orientations of constituent galaxies along such filaments are non-isotropic. We apply the algorithm to the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kevin A. Pimbblet

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

We analyze the clustering of galaxies in the first public data release of the HSC Subaru Strategic Program. Despite the relatively small footprints of the observed fields, the data are an excellent proxy for the deep photometric datasets…

We directly compare X-ray and optical techniques of cluster detection by combining SDSS photometric data with a wide-field ($\sim 1.8$ deg$^{2}$) XMM-{\em Newton} survey in the North Galactic Pole region. The optical cluster detection…

Recently, a number of methods have emerged to detect galaxy clusters solely through their weak lensing signal. Using the recently-introduced wavelet multi-scale detection method, we focus here on the potential for the use of tomographic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 L. Chappuis , S. Pires , G. W. Pratt , G. Leroy , A. Daurelle , C. Giocoli , C. Carbone

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

Galaxy clusters enable unique opportunities to study cosmology, dark matter, galaxy evolution, and strongly-lensed transients. We here present a new cluster-finding algorithm, CluMPR (Clusters from Masses and Photometric Redshifts), that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 M. J. Yantovski-Barth , Jeffrey A. Newman , Biprateep Dey , Brett H. Andrews , Michael Eracleous , Jesse Golden-Marx , Rongpu Zhou

We discuss the rationale and the present status of a large redshift survey aiming at measuring distances for all the clusters of galaxies detected by the ROSAT X--ray All--Sky Survey in the southern hemisphere, with flux larger than $\sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luigi Guzzo

We present spectroscopic confirmation of five galaxy clusters at $1.25 < \textit{z} < 1.5$, discovered in the $2500$ deg$^{2}$ South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SPT-SZ) survey. These clusters, taken from a mass-limited sample with a…