The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey

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Jun 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003msngr.112...40b&link_type=abstract

The Messenger (ISSN 0722-6691), No. 112, p. 40 - 43 (June 2003)

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Clusters Of Galaxies, Surveys

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The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey is an ambitious project designed to identify a large sample of galaxy clusters over a wide range of redshifts (distances). The resulting sample of galaxy clusters will yield answers about the way in which structures formed and grew in the Universe, and will facilitate a number of other projects. The survey is the largest area survey ever conducted on 4-m class telescopes, and as such will yield important new insights on hitherto poorly measured or unknown phenomena. Despite the large area of the survey (90 square degrees of sky - roughly 500 times the apparent area of the full Moon) a very efficient observing strategy allowed this unprecedented area to be covered in only 25 nights of observing time. Two telescopes were used to complete the project (the Canada-France-Hawaii 3.6 m telescope for the northern hemisphere, and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory 4 m telescope for the southern hemisphere). The survey began in mid-1999, and observations were finished by late 2001. We are currently using the powerful ESO VLT telescopes for following up some of the highest redshift clusters in the sample.

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