MaDCoWS: Massive Distant Clusters of WISE Survey
Abstract
We request XMM time to observe a new sample of the most massive galaxy clusters at z > 0.9 to determine their masses and suitability for use in f_gas measurements. Combining WISE with SDSS, we have constructed a catalog of clusters in the 10,000 deg^2 overlap area, which is the first phase in a project to find the most massive clusters over the whole sky at z > 0.9. To date, 15 new clusters at 0.9 < z < 1.3 have been spectroscopically confirmed. Moreover, nearly all of the new candidates observed by CARMA have Sunyaev-Zel'dovich detections, including one which is among the most massive clusters known at z > 1.
- Publication:
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XMM-Newton Proposal
- Pub Date:
- October 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013xmm..prop..121S
- Keywords:
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- Groups of Galaxies;
- Clusters of Galaxies;
- Supercluster;
- MOO_1319+5519;
- MOO_0319-0025;
- MOO_1514+1346;
- MOO_1335+3004