Blanco Cosmology Survey (BCS) new reduction

DOI

The Blanco Cosmology Survey is a four-band (griz) optical-imaging survey of ~80deg^2^ of the southern sky. The survey consists of two fields centered approximately at (RA,DE)=(23h,-55{deg}) and (5h30m,-53{deg}) with imaging sufficient for the detection of L_ galaxies at redshift z<=1. In this paper, we present our reduction of the survey data and describe a new technique for the separation of stars and galaxies. We search the calibrated source catalogs for galaxy clusters at z<=0.75 by identifying spatial over-densities of red-sequence galaxies and report the coordinates, redshifts, and optical richnesses, {lambda}, for 764 galaxy clusters at z85% of which are new discoveries, has a median redshift of z=0.52 and median richness {lambda}(0.4L_)=16.4.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/216/20/table3 (Summary information for BCS data presented in this work)

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/216/20/table5 (Optically-selected Galaxy Clusters located in the 23h BCS field)

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/216/20/table6 (Optically-selected Galaxy Clusters located in the 5h BCS field)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.22160020
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/216/20
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/216/20
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/216/20
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/216/20
Provenance
Creator Bleem L.E.; Stalder B.; Brodwin M.; Busha M.T.; Gladders M.D.; High F.W.,Rest A.; Wechsler R.H.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2015
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics