Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-12-05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
36 pages, 5 b&w and 3 color postscript figures, aastex style. Submitted to PASP 12/00
Scientific paper
We describe the scientific motivation behind, and the methodology of, the Stanford Cluster Search (StaCS), a program to compile a catalog of optically selected clusters of galaxies at intermediate and high (0.3 < z < 1) redshifts. The clusters are identified using an matched filter algorithm applied to deep CCD images covering approximately 60 square degrees of sky. These images are obtained from several data archives, principally that of the Berkeley Supernova Cosmology Project of Perlmutter et al. Potential clusters are confirmed with spectroscopic observations at the 9.2 m Hobby-Eberly Telescope. Follow-up observations at optical, sub-mm, and X-ray wavelengths are planned in order to estimate cluster masses. Our long-term scientific goal is to measure the cluster number density as a function of mass and redshift, which is sensitive to the cosmological density parameter, and the amplitude of density fluctuations on cluster scales. Our short-term goals are the detection of high-redshift cluster candidates over a broad mass range and the measurement of evolution in cluster scaling relations. The combined data set will contain clusters ranging over an order of magnitude in mass, and allow constraints on these parameters accurate to ~10%. We present our first spectroscopically confirmed cluster candidates and describe how to access them electronically.
Hill Gary J.
Knop Robert A.
Mathiesen Benjamin F.
Perlmutter Saul
Thompson Keith L.
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