Clusters of galaxies in SDSS-III

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Using the photometric redshifts of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), we identify 132684 clusters in the redshift range of 0.05<=z1.0x10^14^M_{sun} in the redshift range of 0.05<=z0.42 are less complete and have a biased smaller richness than the real one due to incompleteness of member galaxies. We compare our sample with other cluster samples, and find that more than 90% of previously known rich clusters of 0.05<=z<0.42 are matched with clusters in our sample. Richer clusters tend to have more luminous brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs). Correlating with X-ray and the Planck data, we show that the cluster richness is closely related to the X-ray luminosity, temperature, and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements. Comparison of the BCGs with the SDSS luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample shows that 25% of LRGs are BCGs of our clusters and 36% of LRGs are cluster member galaxies. In our cluster sample, 63% of BCGs of r_petro<19.5 satisfy the SDSS LRG selection criteria.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.21990034
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/199/34
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/199/34
Related Identifier https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/199/34
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Provenance
Creator Wen Z.L.; Han J.L.; Liu F.S.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2012
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics