Clusters of galaxies in SDSS-III Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Wen Z.L.
  2. Han J.L.
  3. Liu F.S.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Using the photometric redshifts of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), we identify 132684 clusters in the redshift range of 0.05<=z<0.8. Monte Carlo simulations show that the false detection rate is less than 6% for the whole sample. The completeness is more than 95% for clusters with a mass of M_200_>1.0x10^14^M_{sun}_ in the redshift range of 0.05<=z<0.42, while clusters of z>0.42 are less complete and have a biased smaller richness than the real one due to incompleteness of member galaxies. We compare our sample with other cluster samples, and find that more than 90% of previously known rich clusters of 0.05<=z<0.42 are matched with clusters in our sample. Richer clusters tend to have more luminous brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs). Correlating with X-ray and the Planck data, we show that the cluster richness is closely related to the X-ray luminosity, temperature, and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements. Comparison of the BCGs with the SDSS luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample shows that 25% of LRGs are BCGs of our clusters and 36% of LRGs are cluster member galaxies. In our cluster sample, 63% of BCGs of r_petro_<19.5 satisfy the SDSS LRG selection criteria.

Keywords
  1. galaxy-clusters
  2. visible-astronomy
  3. sloan-photometry
  4. redshifted
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2012ApJS..199...34W
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Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.21990034

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History

2012-08-22T15:18:10Z
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2012-08-22T15:18:10Z
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2012-08-22T15:20:09Z
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