J/MNRAS/444/147     Richness of galaxy clusters              (Oguri, 2014)

A cluster finding algorithm based on the multiband identification of red sequence galaxies. Oguri M. <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 444, 147-161 (2014)> =2014MNRAS.444..147O 2014MNRAS.444..147O
ADC_Keywords: Clusters, galaxy ; Redshifts Keywords: galaxies: clusters: general Abstract: We present a new algorithm, CAMIRA, to identify clusters of galaxies in wide-field imaging survey data. We base our algorithm on the stellar population synthesis model to predict colours of red sequence galaxies at a given redshift for an arbitrary set of bandpass filters, with additional calibration using a sample of spectroscopic galaxies to improve the accuracy of the model prediction. We run the algorithm on ∼11960deg2 of imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 8 to construct a catalogue of 71743 clusters in the redshift range 0.1<z<0.6 with richness after correcting for the incompleteness of the richness estimate greater than 20. We cross-match the cluster catalogue with external cluster catalogues to find that our photometric cluster redshift estimates are accurate with low bias and scatter, and that the corrected richness correlates well with X-ray luminosities and temperatures. We use the publicly available Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey shear catalogue to calibrate the mass-richness relation from stacked weak lensing analysis. Stacked weak lensing signals are detected significantly for eight subsamples of the SDSS clusters divided by redshift and richness bins, which are then compared with model predictions including miscentring effects to constrain mean halo masses of individual bins. We find the richness correlates well with the halo mass, such that the corrected richness limit of 20 corresponds to the cluster virial mass limit of about 1x1014h-1M for the SDSS DR8 cluster sample. Description: We apply our cluster finding algorithm CAMIRA to imaging data of SDSS DR8 (Aihara et al., 2011ApJS..193...29A 2011ApJS..193...29A). The input galaxy catalogue includes model magnitudes (MODEL_MAG) and their errors for SDSS ugriz-band. We exclude galaxies with any of the following flags; SATURATED, SATUR_CENTER, BRIGHT, and DEBLENDEDASMOVING. We only use galaxies with extinction-corrected i-band magnitude brighter than 21.0 and its error smaller than 0.2. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file tablea1.dat 44 71743 The CAMIRA SDSS DR8 cluster catalogue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: http://www.sdss.org : SDSS Home Page Byte-by-byte Description of file: tablea1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 10 F10.6 deg RAdeg Cluster right ascension (BCG position) (J2000) 12- 21 F10.6 deg DEdeg Cluster declination (BCG position) (J2000) 23- 28 F6.4 --- z [0.1/0.6] Cluster redshift 30- 36 F7.3 --- Ncor [20/158] Corrected richness 38- 44 F7.3 --- Nmem [4.4/123] Uncorrected richness -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal
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