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Aug 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008noao.prop..374p&link_type=abstract
NOAO Proposal ID #2008B-0374
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We request 2 nights with Magellan/IMACS to target candidate galaxy clusters at z>1.3 selected as overdensities of galaxies with red SPITZER/IRAC colors (mone - mtwo > -0.1 AB mag) from the 50 deg^2 SPITZER Wide Infrared Extragalactic (SWIRE) survey. This simple, highly efficient IRAC color selection identifies >90% of galaxies with z>1.3 and it is sensitive to red and blue galaxies nearly equally, avoiding possible biases associated with other high- redshift cluster searches. These cluster candidates show strong angular clustering consistent with expectations for the progenitors of present- day galaxy clusters, and therefore they represent real physical structures (and not projections of galaxies along the line of sight). Here, we propose a pilot program to measure the redshifts of >200 galaxies in 18 candidate galaxy clusters, which would double the known number of spectroscopically confirmed clusters at these redshifts. Our primary goal is to use the deep spectroscopy to confirm the candidate clusters in redshift space (requiring >5 galaxies per cluster) and to verify our cluster-selection algorithm, enabling further studies using the full 50 deg^2 SWIRE fields. We will also use these data to compare the properties of passively evolving versus star-forming galaxies in these clusters to those in the field, and to study estimators of cluster masses.
Brodwin Mark
Khan Sophia
Lotz Jennifer
McCarthy Patrick
Momcheva Ivelina
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