Blanco Cosmology Survey (BCS) new reduction Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Bleem L.E.
  2. Stalder B.
  3. Brodwin M.
  4. Busha M.T.
  5. Gladders M.D.
  6. High F.W.,Rest A.
  7. Wechsler R.H.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The Blanco Cosmology Survey is a four-band (griz) optical-imaging survey of ~80deg^2^ of the southern sky. The survey consists of two fields centered approximately at (RA,DE)=(23h,-55{deg}) and (5h30m,-53{deg}) with imaging sufficient for the detection of L_*_ galaxies at redshift z<=1. In this paper, we present our reduction of the survey data and describe a new technique for the separation of stars and galaxies. We search the calibrated source catalogs for galaxy clusters at z<=0.75 by identifying spatial over-densities of red-sequence galaxies and report the coordinates, redshifts, and optical richnesses, {lambda}, for 764 galaxy clusters at z<=0.75. This sample, >85% of which are new discoveries, has a median redshift of z=0.52 and median richness {lambda}(0.4L_*_)=16.4.

Keywords
  1. galaxy-clusters
  2. infrared-photometry
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. Wide-band photometry
  5. surveys
  6. redshifted
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2015ApJS..216...20B
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/216/20
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/216/20
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22160020

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/216/20
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/216/20
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/216/20
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/0?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/216/20/table3?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/216/20/table3?
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/0?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/216/20/table5?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/216/20/table5?
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/0?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/216/20/table6?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/216/20/table6?

History

2015-03-10T08:19:46Z
Resource record created
2015-03-10T08:19:46Z
Created
2017-10-16T11:05:06Z
Updated

Contact

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CDS support team
Postal Address
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E-Mail
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