A Spectro-photometric Search for Galaxy Clusters in SDSS

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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10.1086/528958

Recent large-scale galaxy spectroscopic surveys, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), enable us to execute a systematic, relatively-unbiased search for galaxy clusters. Such surveys make it possible to measure the 3-d distribution of galaxies but are hampered by the incompleteness problem due to fiber collisions. In this study we aim to develop a density measuring technique that alleviates the problem and derives densities more accurately by adding additional cluster member galaxies that follow optical color-magnitude relations for the given redshift. The new density measured with both spectroscopic and photometric data shows a good agreement with apparent information on cluster images and is supported by follow-up observations. By adopting this new method, a total of 924 $robust$ galaxy clusters are found from the SDSS DR5 database in the redshift range $0.05

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