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We have measured fluxes or flux limits for 31 of the 79 cluster candidates in the Palomar Distant Cluster Survey (PDCS) using archival ROSAT/PSPC pointed observations. Our X-ray survey reaches a flux limit of $\simeq 3 \times 10^{-14}$ erg…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. P. Holden , A. K. Romer , R. C. Nichol , M. P. Ulmer

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

We analyze the density profiles and virial radii for a sample of 90 nearby clusters, using galaxies with available redshifts and positions. Each cluster has at least 20 redshifts measured within an Abell radius, and all the results come…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Girardi , A. Biviano , G. Giuricin , F. Mardirossian , M. Mezzetti

We present a sample of 171 candidate groups and clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshift over an area of ~550 square degrees at the South Galactic Pole selected by using optically identified radio sources from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Zanichelli , R. Scaramella , G. Vettolani , M. Vigotti , S. Bardelli , G. Zamorani

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

We present the first results of a serendipitous search for clusters of galaxies in deep ROSAT-PSPC pointed observations at high galactic latitude. The survey is being carried out using a Wavelet based Detection Algorithm which is not biased…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 P. Rosati , R. Della Ceca , R. Burg , C. Norman , R. Giacconi

We have developed a method for detecting clusters in large imaging surveys, based on the detection of structures in galaxy density maps made in slices of photometric redshifts. This method was first applied to the Canada France Hawaii…

The Northern Sky Optical Cluster Survey is a project to create an objective catalog of galaxy clusters over the entire high-galactic-latitude Northern sky, with well understood selection criteria. We use the object catalogs generated from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 R. R. Gal , R. R. DeCarvalho , S. C. Odewahn , S. G. Djorgovski , V. E. Margoniner

We present the Las Campanas Distant Cluster Survey, which has produced over a thousand galaxy cluster candidates at 0.35 < z < 1.1 (see Gonzalez et al. 2001 for the full catalog). We discuss the technique that enabled us to use short (~ 3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dennis Zaritsky , Anthony H. Gonzalez , Amy E. Nelson , Julianne J. Dalcanton

In this paper we present an objectively defined catalog of 459 small, high density groups of galaxies out to z~0.2 in a region of 6260 square degrees in the northern sky derived from the Digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey. Our…

We present the first dynamical study of the optically selected Palomar Distant Cluster Survey (PDCS). We show that eleven out of twelve PDCS clusters we observed are real over-densities of galaxies. Most clusters have velocity dispersions…

We investigate the internal structure of clusters of galaxies in high-resolution N-body simulations of 4 different cosmologies. There is a higher proportion of disordered clusters in critical-density than in low-density universes, although…

We report the first results from the Z-FOURGE survey: the discovery of a candidate galaxy cluster at z = 2.2 consisting of two compact overdensities with red galaxies detected at >20{\sigma} above the mean surface density. The discovery was…

We present new estimates of the spatial two-point correlation function of rich clusters of galaxies selected from the APM Galaxy Survey. We have measured redshifts for a sample of $364$ clusters out to a depth of $\sim 450\hmpc$. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 G. B. Dalton , R. A. C. Croft , G. Efstathiou , W. J. Sutherland , S. J. Maddox , M. Davis

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…

We present the results of a search for galaxy clusters in the first 36 XMM-Newton pointings on the COSMOS field. We reach a depth for a total cluster flux in the 0.5-2 keV band of 3x10-15 ergs cm-2 s-1, having one of the widest XMM-Newton…

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 utilize a sample of galaxy clusters at 0.35<z<0.6 drawn from the Las Campanas Distant Cluster Survey (LCDCS) to provide the first non-local constraint on the cluster-cluster spatial correlation function. The LCDCS catalog, which covers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anthony H. Gonzalez , Dennis Zaritsky , Risa H. Wechsler

We present results of an initial search for clusters of galaxies at z~1 and above, using data from 2.9 square degrees of XMM-Newton images. By selecting weak potentially extended X-ray sources with faint or no identifications in deep,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Andreon , I. Valtchanov , L. R. Jones , B. Altieri , M. Bremer , J. Willis , M. Pierre , H. Quintana

We present a catalog of galaxy clusters detected in a new ROSAT PSPC survey. The survey is optimized to sample, at high redshifts, the mass range corresponding to T> keV clusters at z=0. Technically, our survey is the extension of the 160…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. A. Burenin , A. Vikhlinin , A. Hornstrup , H. Ebeling , H. Quintana , A. Mescheryakov