A new reduction of the blanco cosmology survey: An optically selected galaxy cluster catalog and a
The Blanco Cosmology Survey is a four-band (griz) optical-imaging survey of ≈80 deg2 of the southern sky. The survey consists of two fields centered approximately at (R.A., decl.) = (23h, -55°) and (5h30m, -53°) with imaging sufficient for the detection of L$$\star$$ 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, λ, for 764 galaxy clusters at z ≤ 0.75. This sample, >85% of which are new discoveries, has a median redshift of z = 0.52 and median richness λ(0.4L$$\star$$) = 16.4. Accompanying this paper we also release full survey data products including reduced images and calibrated source catalogs. These products are available at http://data.rcc.uchicago.edu/dataset/blanco-cosmology-survey.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1395858
- Journal Information:
- The Astrophysical Journal. Supplement Series (Online), Vol. 216, Issue 1; ISSN 1538-4365
- Publisher:
- American Astronomical Society/IOP
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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