Photometric Determination of r200 for SDSS Galaxy Clusters and Groups

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Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aas...201.4201h&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 201st AAS Meeting, #42.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.1167

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We use photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to determine directly a size-richness relation for groups and clusters with a model-independent method. We determine the radius at which the space density of cluster members is overdense by a factor of 200, without assuming a model for the radial distribution of galaxies in clusters. Up to a bias factor, the number of galaxies traces the mass of the halos in which they are embedded, so this space-density-based r200 should reasonably reflect the characteristic radii of clusters. Here, we present our results for r200 as a function of cluster richness, compare these results with the relationship determined from theoretical models, and examine the radial behavior of the luminosity function and color distribution of cluster members as a function of cluster richness.

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