Optical Surveys for Galaxy Clusters

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2001-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111431v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 7 figures, invited review in the proceedings of TAW8: "AMiBA 2001: High-z Clusters, Missing Baryons, and CMB Polariz

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We present a brief review of the history of optical searches of galaxy clusters, starting from that of Abell. The traditional application of this survey method suffers from contamination due to projection of galaxies along the line of sight, which becomes increasingly more severe at higher redshift. The new generation of wide-field CCD imagers has provided a renewed impetus for optical surveys for clusters. We describe a new cluster finding technique using the red sequence of early-type galaxies in galaxy groups and clusters, which eliminates the projection problem by essentially producing a 3-D distribution of red galaxies using two-filter imaging data. The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) is a 100 square degree optical survey, carried out using 4m class telescopes, which is optimally designed to search for clusters at $0.5

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