The Red-Sequence Cluster Surveys

Details The Red-Sequence Cluster Surveys The Red-Sequence Cluster Surveys

2007-01-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701839v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in ASP Conference Series in the Proceedings of the "Cosmic Frontiers" conference held in Durham,

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The Red-Sequence Cluster Surveys (RCS-1 and RCS-2) are large optical imaging surveys optimized to create well-characterized catalogs of clusters of galaxies up to a redshift of ~1. We describe our first cosmological analysis, using the self-calibration technique, of a cluster sample of ~1000 from the 90 sq. deg RCS-1, using optical richness as a mass proxy. We obtain values for the cosmological parameters $\Omega_m$ and $\sigma_8$ that are in excellent agreement with the year-three WMAP results. Furthermore, the derived cluster richness-mass relationship is entirely consistent with those measured directly using dynamical mass measurements.

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