An Overview of the Las Campanas Distant Cluster Survey
| dc.creator | Zaritsky, Dennis | |
| dc.creator | Gonzalez, Anthony H. | |
| dc.creator | Nelson, Amy E. | |
| dc.creator | Dalcanton, Julianne J. | |
| dc.date | 2001-07-27 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-25T18:15:22Z | |
| dc.description | We present the Las Campanas Distant Cluster Survey, which has produced over a thousand galaxy cluster candidates at 0.35 < z < 1.1 (see Gonzalez et al. 2001 for the full catalog). We discuss the technique that enabled us to use short (~ 3 min) exposures and a small (1m) telescope to efficiently survey ~ 130 sq. deg. of sky. Follow-up imaging and spectroscopy using a wide array of telescopes including the Keck and VLT suggest that the bona-fide cluster fraction is ~70%. We construct methods to estimate both the redshift and cluster mass from the survey data themselves and discuss our first result on large-scale structure, the dependence of the cluster correlation length with mean cluster separation at z ~ 0.5 (Gonzalez, Zaritsky, & Wechsler 2001). | |
| dc.description | 10 pages. to appear in the proceedings of AMiBA 2001: High-z Clusters, Missing Baryons, and CMB Polarization | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107542 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107542 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/54479 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | An Overview of the Las Campanas Distant Cluster Survey | |
| dc.type | text |