THE MASSIVE DISTANT CLUSTERS OF WISE SURVEY: THE FIRST DISTANT GALAXY CLUSTER DISCOVERED BY WISE
Abstract
We present spectroscopic confirmation of a z = 0.99 galaxy cluster discovered using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). This is the first z {approx} 1 cluster candidate from the Massive Distant Clusters of WISE Survey to be confirmed. It was selected as an overdensity of probable z {approx}> 1 sources using a combination of WISE and Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR8 photometric catalogs. Deeper follow-up imaging data from Subaru and WIYN reveal the cluster to be a rich system of galaxies, and multi-object spectroscopic observations from Keck confirm five cluster members at z = 0.99. The detection and confirmation of this cluster represents a first step toward constructing a uniformly selected sample of distant, high-mass galaxy clusters over the full extragalactic sky using WISE data.
- Authors:
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Florida, 211 Bryant Space Center, Gainesville, FL 32611 (United States)
- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550 (United States)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109 (United States)
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, 5110 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110 (United States)
- Department of Physics, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 (United States)
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology 100-22, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
- George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX, 77843-4242 (United States)
- Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 650 North A'ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720 (United States)
- UCLA Astronomy, P.O. Box 951547, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547 (United States)
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 22078453
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Astrophysical Journal Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 759; Journal Issue: 1; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 2041-8205
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; CATALOGS; DETECTION; GALAXY CLUSTERS; INFRARED SURVEYS; MASS; PHOTOMETRY
Citation Formats
Gettings, Daniel P, Gonzalez, Anthony H, Mancone, Conor, Stanford, S Adam, Eisenhardt, Peter R. M., Stern, Daniel, Brodwin, Mark, Zeimann, Gregory R, Masci, Frank J, Papovich, Casey, Tanaka, Ichi, and Wright, Edward L. THE MASSIVE DISTANT CLUSTERS OF WISE SURVEY: THE FIRST DISTANT GALAXY CLUSTER DISCOVERED BY WISE. United States: N. p., 2012.
Web. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/759/1/L23.
Gettings, Daniel P, Gonzalez, Anthony H, Mancone, Conor, Stanford, S Adam, Eisenhardt, Peter R. M., Stern, Daniel, Brodwin, Mark, Zeimann, Gregory R, Masci, Frank J, Papovich, Casey, Tanaka, Ichi, & Wright, Edward L. THE MASSIVE DISTANT CLUSTERS OF WISE SURVEY: THE FIRST DISTANT GALAXY CLUSTER DISCOVERED BY WISE. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/759/1/L23
Gettings, Daniel P, Gonzalez, Anthony H, Mancone, Conor, Stanford, S Adam, Eisenhardt, Peter R. M., Stern, Daniel, Brodwin, Mark, Zeimann, Gregory R, Masci, Frank J, Papovich, Casey, Tanaka, Ichi, and Wright, Edward L. 2012.
"THE MASSIVE DISTANT CLUSTERS OF WISE SURVEY: THE FIRST DISTANT GALAXY CLUSTER DISCOVERED BY WISE". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/759/1/L23.
@article{osti_22078453,
title = {THE MASSIVE DISTANT CLUSTERS OF WISE SURVEY: THE FIRST DISTANT GALAXY CLUSTER DISCOVERED BY WISE},
author = {Gettings, Daniel P and Gonzalez, Anthony H and Mancone, Conor and Stanford, S Adam and Eisenhardt, Peter R. M. and Stern, Daniel and Brodwin, Mark and Zeimann, Gregory R and Masci, Frank J and Papovich, Casey and Tanaka, Ichi and Wright, Edward L},
abstractNote = {We present spectroscopic confirmation of a z = 0.99 galaxy cluster discovered using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). This is the first z {approx} 1 cluster candidate from the Massive Distant Clusters of WISE Survey to be confirmed. It was selected as an overdensity of probable z {approx}> 1 sources using a combination of WISE and Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR8 photometric catalogs. Deeper follow-up imaging data from Subaru and WIYN reveal the cluster to be a rich system of galaxies, and multi-object spectroscopic observations from Keck confirm five cluster members at z = 0.99. The detection and confirmation of this cluster represents a first step toward constructing a uniformly selected sample of distant, high-mass galaxy clusters over the full extragalactic sky using WISE data.},
doi = {10.1088/2041-8205/759/1/L23},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22078453},
journal = {Astrophysical Journal Letters},
issn = {2041-8205},
number = 1,
volume = 759,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
}