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Title:
A Merged Catalog of Clusters of Galaxies from Early Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data
Authors:
Bahcall, Neta A.; McKay, Timothy A.; Annis, James; Kim, Rita S. J.; Dong, Feng; Hansen, Sarah; Goto, Tomo; Gunn, James E.; Miller, Chris; Nichol, R. C.; Postman, Marc; Schneider, Don; Schroeder, Josh; Voges, Wolfgang; Brinkmann, Jon; Fukugita, Masataka
Affiliation:
AA(Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, NJ 08544.), AB(University of Michigan, Department of Physics, 500 East University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.), AC(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510.), AD(Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AE(Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, NJ 08544.), AF(University of Michigan, Department of Physics, 500 East University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.), AG(Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232.), AH(Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, NJ 08544.), AI(Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232.), AJ(Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232.), AK(Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AL(Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.), AM(Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, NJ 08544.), AN(Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, D-85740 Garching, Germany.), AO(Apache Point Observatory, 2001 Apache Point Road, P.O. Box 59, Sunspot, NM 88349-0059.), AP(Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Midori, Tanashi, Tokyo 188-8502, Japan.)
Publication:
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 148, Issue 2, pp. 243-274. (ApJS Homepage)
Publication Date:
10/2003
Origin:
UCP
ApJ Keywords:
Catalogs, Cosmology: Observations, Cosmology: Theory- Galaxies: Clusters: General, Cosmology: Large-Scale Structure of Universe
DOI:
10.1086/377167
Bibliographic Code:
2003ApJS..148..243B

Abstract

We present a catalog of 799 clusters of galaxies in the redshift range zest=0.05-0.3 selected from ~400 deg2 of early Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning data along the celestial equator. The catalog is based on merging two independent selection methods-a color-magnitude red-sequence maxBCG technique (B), and a hybrid matched filter method (H). The BH catalog includes clusters with richness Λ>=40 (matched filter) and Ngal>=13 (maxBCG), corresponding to typical velocity dispersion of σv>~400 km s-1 and mass (within 0.6 h-1 Mpc radius) >~5×1013 h-1 Msolar. This threshold is below Abell richness class 0 clusters. The average space density of these clusters is 2×10-5h3 Mpc-3. All NORAS X-ray clusters and 53 of the 58 Abell clusters in the survey region are detected in the catalog; the five additional Abell clusters are detected below the BH catalog cuts. The cluster richness function is determined and found to exhibit a steeply decreasing cluster abundance with increasing richness. We derive observational scaling relations between cluster richness and observed cluster luminosity and cluster velocity dispersion; these scaling relations provide important physical calibrations for the clusters. The catalog can be used for studies of individual clusters, for comparisons with other sources such as X-ray clusters and active galactic nuclei, and, with proper correction for the relevant selection functions, also for statistical analyses of clusters.

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