J/ApJ/769/52ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/769/52doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17690052CDSWong K.C.Zabludoff A.I.Ammons S.M.Keeton C.R.Hogg D.W.,Gonzalez A.H.2017-10-13T15:42:02Z2015-01-13T12:07:53ZCDS support team

CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

cds-question@unistra.frgravitational-lensinggalaxy-clustersredshiftedgalaxiesvisible-astronomyThe best gravitational lenses for detecting distant galaxies are those with the largest mass concentrations and the most advantageous configurations of that mass along the line of sight. Our new method for finding such gravitational telescopes uses optical data to identify projected concentrations of luminous red galaxies (LRGs). LRGs are biased tracers of the underlying mass distribution, so lines of sight with the highest total luminosity in LRGs are likely to contain the largest total mass. We apply this selection technique to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and identify the 200 fields with the highest total LRG luminosities projected within a 3.5' radius over the redshift range 0.1<=z<=0.7. The redshift and angular distributions of LRGs in these fields trace the concentrations of non-LRG galaxies. These fields are diverse; 22.5% contain one known galaxy cluster and 56.0% contain multiple known clusters previously identified in the literature. Thus, our results confirm that these LRGs trace massive structures and that our selection technique identifies fields with large total masses. These fields contain two to three times higher total LRG luminosities than most known strong-lensing clusters and will be among the best gravitational lensing fields for the purpose of detecting the highest redshift galaxies.2013ApJ...769...52Whttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/769/52CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toV/139 : The SDSS Photometric Catalog, Release 9 (Adelman-McCarthy+, 2012)VII/110 : Rich Clusters of Galaxies (Abell+ 1989)VII/190 : Zwicky Galaxy Catalog (Zwicky+ 1968)J/ApJS/199/34 : Clusters of galaxies in SDSS-III (Wen+, 2012)J/ApJ/757/22 : Strong and weak lensing analysis of A2261 (Coe+, 2012)J/ApJS/199/25 : CLASH sources for MACS1149.6+2223 (Postman+, 2012)J/ApJS/191/254 : GMBCG galaxy cluster catalog from SDSS DR7 (Hao+, 2010)J/ApJS/183/197 : Galaxy clusters identified from the SDSS-DR6 (Wen+, 2009)J/AJ/137/4795 : Dynamical state of brightest cluster galaxies (Coziol+, 2009)J/ApJ/675/234 : Mass functions for galaxies 0<z<4 (Perez-Gonzalez+, 2008)J/ApJ/660/239 : MaxBCG cat. of 13823 SDSS galaxy clusters (Koester+, 2007)J/MNRAS/379/867 : BCG C4 cluster catalog (Von Der Linden+, 2007)J/ApJ/638/725 : Fundamental manifold of spheroids (Zaritsky+, 2006)J/ApJ/633/174 : Spheroidals and bulge dominated galaxies (Treu+, 2005)J/AJ/128/1017 : Northern Optical Cluster Survey. IV. (Lopes+, 2005)J/MNRAS/351/265 : Cluster galaxy circular velocity function (Desai+, 2004)J/AJ/125/2064 : Northern Optical Cluster Survey. II. (Gal+, 2003)J/AJ/123/1807 : SDSS galaxy clusters redshifts (Goto+, 2002)J/ApJS/133/1 : GIS catalog project : source catalog (Ueda+, 2001)J/ApJS/129/435 : NORAS galaxy cluster survey. I. (Bohringer+, 2000)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/769/52https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/769/52http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/769/52https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/769/52https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/769/52http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/769/52GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/ApJ/769/52/table1 (List of SDSS luminous red galaxy (LRG) beams)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/769/52/table1?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/769/52/table1?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/769/52/table1?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true170.9717958350.881516110.005555555555555556Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/769/52/table2 (List of unique beams sorted by number of LRGs)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/769/52/table2?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/769/52/table2?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/769/52/table2?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true167.316570839.964820.005555555555555556Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/769/52/table3 (List of known clusters in SDSS LRG beams)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/769/52/table3?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/769/52/table3?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/769/52/table3?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true170.9717958350.881516110.0055555555555555566/546 761 2062 2183 2190 4215 4389 4406 4407 4454 4455 4471 4500 4536 4562 4603 4726 4865 4897 4907 4915 4920 4952 4964 4976 5000 5015 5017 5100 5110 5116 5134 5197 5198 5227 5283 5324 5328 5333 5361 5399 5408 5432 5454 5462 5491 5496 5541 5554 5586 5597 5621 5644 5686 5740 5753 5764 5792 5799 5812 5843 5860 5880 5923 5924 5956 5986 5989 6011 6019 6039 6041 6047 6084 6404 6498 6505 6524 6545 6622 7282 7316 7330 7387 7444 7513 7780 8213 8228 8231 8258 8260 8321 8328 8356 8393 8403 8426 8461 8502 8515 8559 8586 8699 8750 8772 8798 8897 8900 9015 9124 9136 9144 9151 9164 9209 9219 9339 9465 9470 9476 9657 9741 9764 9765 9783 9787 9820 9904 9980 10098 10197 10236 10508 10532 10634 10638 10713 10727 10790 10800 10814 10872 10899 10928 10936 10947 10959 10976 10998 11032 11040 11042 11088 11105 11108 11109 11173 11241 11243 11246 11276 11305 11317 11395 11417 11442 11527 11560 11571 11633 11691 11785 11838 16785 16895 17254 17256 17260 17493 17499 17502 17506 17524 17558 17570 17636 17741 17770 17816 17829 17872 17908 17980 18034 18043 18088 18147 18163 18229 18231 18240 18360 18366 18400 18412 18414 18534 18680 18748 18749 18789 18791 18820 18838 18844 18847 18854 18894 18927 19089 19124 19164 19202 19288 19533 19544 19620 19625 19642 19654 19729 19765 19937 19943 19961 19974 20141 20181 20284 20323 23072 25694 25823 25919 25945 25949 26055 26181 26255 26316 26318 26327 26413 26460 26576 26590 26965 26968 27107 27240 27243 27300 27342 27370 27479 27532 27533 27541 27594 27614 27667 27687 27725 27888 27915 27961 28027 28050 28094 28098 28114 28128 28148 28155 28208 28221 28241 28269 28304 28313 28366 28381 28402 28431 28447 28460 28488 28512 28523 28535 28547 28573 28631 28643 28653 28655 31434 31456 31466 31621 31682 32687 36506 36550 36591 36729 48907 48955 49099https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/ApJ/769/52?format=asciiOpticaldefaultJ/ApJ/769/52/table1List of SDSS luminous red galaxy (LRG) beamsrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintRank[1/200] Rank by total LRG luminositymeta.idintprimaryRAJ2000Hour of right ascension (J2000)pos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000Degree of declination (J2000)pos.eq.dec;meta.mainNlrg[4/18] Number of LRGsmeta.numberintlogLi[11.8/12.1] Total rest-frame i-band luminosity in LRGs (in h^-2^Lsun unit) (G1)log(solLum)phys.luminosityfloatlogLiM[11.4/12.1] Median of Monte Carlo total luminosity distribution (in h^-2^L{sun}) (G1)log(solLum)phys.luminosityfloatE_logLiM[0/0.3] Positive error on logLiM (1)log(solLum)stat.error;stat.maxfloate_logLiM[-0.3/-0.02] Negative error on logLiM (1)log(solLum)stat.errorfloatMC[1/200] Rank when ordered by median of Monte Carlo total luminosity distributionmeta.idintCommComment (2)meta.notecharNc[1/6]? Known clusters number (3)meta.numberintnullableDR9Cross-match with the SDSS photometric catalog DR9 (V/139) within 1"meta.ref.urlcharSloanDisplay the online SDSS data for this galaxymeta.ref.urlcharJ/ApJ/769/52/table2List of unique beams sorted by number of LRGsrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintRAJ2000Hour of right ascension (J2000)pos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000Degree of declination (J2000)pos.eq.dec;meta.mainNlrg[11/13] Number of luminous red galaxies (LRGs)meta.numberintlogLi[11.6/11.9] Total integrated rest-frame i-band luminosity in LRG (in h^-2^L{sun}) (G1)log(solLum)phys.luminosityfloatDR9Cross-match with the SDSS photometric catalog DR9 (V/139) within 1"meta.ref.urlcharSloanDisplay the online SDSS data for this galaxymeta.ref.urlcharJ/ApJ/769/52/table3List of known clusters in SDSS LRG beamse_zError on zstat.errorcharRank[1/200] Rankmeta.idintClusterCluster name (1)meta.id;meta.maincharrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintRAJ2000Hour of right ascension (J2000)pos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000Degree of declination (J2000)pos.eq.dec;meta.mainz[0/0.7]? Redshift (2)src.redshiftdoublenullableNEDSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.ref.urlchar