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Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21543612p&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #436.12; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.386
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We report the discovery of a galaxy cluster at z=1.62, located in the XMM-LSS field. This cluster candidate was originally selected as an overdensity of sources with red Spitzer/IRAC colors, satisfying [3.6] - [4.5] > -0.1 AB mag, within the Spitzer Wide-Area Infrared Extragalactic (SWIRE) survey covering 9 square degrees in this field. Photometric redshifts derived from Subaru XMM Deep Survey (BViz-bands), UKIRT Infrared Deep Survey--Ultra-Deep Survey (UKIDSS-UDS, JK-bands), and from the Spitzer Public UDS survey (SpUDS, 3.6-8.0 micron) for the galaxies in and around this cluster show that this structure corresponds to a galaxy surface density of sources at z=1.6 that is >20-sigma times the mean surface density at this redshift. We obtained spectroscopic observations of galaxies in cluster using Magellan/IMACS, and measure redshifts for six galaxies in the range z=1.62-1.65, all within 1.4 arcmin of the cluster center, which corresponds to a radius of 0.5 h-1 Mpc. We measured spectroscopic redshifts for three additional sources with z=1.61-1.63 within 1.4-2.8 arcmin (0.5-1 h-1 Mpc). The cluster appears to be dominated by red galaxies, with (z - J) > 1.7 mag. The photometric redshift distributions for the brightest red galaxies are centrally peaked at z=1.62, coincident with the spectroscopically confirmed galaxies. The J versus z-J color magnitude diagram of the galaxies in this cluster shows a strong red-sequence, which includes the dominant population of red galaxies. The intercept of the red-sequence is consistent with a stellar population formed at z=3 with passive evolution, implying that most of the stellar mass in this cluster formed at that epoch. We will summarize our plans to continue the study of this cluster, and our continuing survey to identify and study other high-redshift clusters.
Support for this work was provided by NASA through an award issued by JPL/Caltech.
Brodwin Mark
Dunlop James S.
Farrah Duncan
Finkelstein Keely D.
Finkelstein Steven L.
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