A catalogue of clusters of galaxies identified from all sky surveys of 2MASS, WISE, and SuperCOSMOS
Abstract
We identify 47 600 clusters of galaxies from photometric data of Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and SuperCOSMOS, among which 26 125 clusters are recognized for the first time and mostly in the sky outside the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) area. About 90 per cent of massive clusters of M500 > 3 × 1014 M⊙ in the redshift range of 0.025 < z < 0.3 have been detected from such survey data, and the detection rate drops down to 50 per cent for clusters with a mass of M500 ∼ 1 × 1014 M⊙. Monte Carlo simulations show that the false detection rate for the whole cluster sample is less than 5 per cent. By cross-matching with ROSAT and XMM-Newton sources, we get 779 new X-ray cluster candidates which have X-ray counterparts within a projected offset of 0.2 Mpc.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- March 2018
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1712.02491
- Bibcode:
- 2018MNRAS.475..343W
- Keywords:
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- catalogues;
- galaxies: clusters: general;
- large-scale structure of Universe;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, updated to match the MNRAS version