The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. I. Survey Overview and a Catalog of >2000 Galaxy Clusters at z ≃ 1
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Gonzalez, Anthony H.
Gettings, Daniel P.
Brodwin, Mark

Eisenhardt, Peter R. M.
Stanford, S. A.
Wylezalek, Dominika

Decker, Bandon
Marrone, Daniel P.

Moravec, Emily
O’Donnell, Christine
Stalder, Brian
Stern, Daniel

Abdulla, Zubair
Brown, Gillen
Carlstrom, John
Chambers, Kenneth C.
Hayden, Brian
Lin, Yen-Ting

Magnier, Eugene
Masci, Frank J.
Mantz, Adam B.
McDonald, Michael
Mo, Wenli
Perlmutter, Saul
Wright, Edward L.
Zeimann, Gregory R.

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Univ Arizona, Steward ObservIssue Date
2019-02
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We present the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS), a search for galaxy clusters at 0.7 less than or similar to z less than or similar to 1.5 based upon data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. MaDCoWS is the first cluster survey capable of discovering massive clusters at these redshifts over the full extragalactic sky. The search is divided into two regions-the region of the extragalactic sky covered by Pan-STARRS (delta > - 30 degrees) and the remainder of the southern extragalactic sky at delta < -30 degrees for which shallower optical data from the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey is available. In this paper, we describe the search algorithm, characterize the sample, and present the first MaDCoWS data release-catalogs of the 2433 highest amplitude detections in the WISE-Pan-STARRS region and the 250 highest amplitude detections in the WISE-SuperCOSMOS region. A total of 1723 of the detections from the WISE-Pan-STARRS sample have also been observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope, providing photometric redshifts and richnesses, and an additional 64 detections within the WISE-SuperCOSMOS region also have photometric redshifts and richnesses. Spectroscopic redshifts for 38 MaDCoWS clusters with IRAC photometry demonstrate that the photometric redshifts have an uncertainty of sigma(z)/(1 + z) similar or equal to 0.036. Combining the richness measurements with Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations of MaDCoWS clusters, we also present a preliminary mass-richness relation that can be used to infer the approximate mass distribution of the full sample. The estimated median mass for the WISE-Pan-STARRS catalog is M-500 = 1.6(-0.8)(+0.7) x 10(14) M-circle dot, with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich data confirming that we detect clusters with masses up to M-500 similar to 5 x 10(14) M-circle dot (M-200 similar to 10(15) M-circle dot).ISSN
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NASA through the NASA Astrophysical Data Analysis Program [NNX12AE15G]; NASA [PID 90177, PID 11080]; Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations [HST-GO-14456]; Pan-STARRS Project Office; Max Planck Society; Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics; National Central University of Taiwan; Space Telescope Science Institute; National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NNX08AR22G]; NASA Science Mission Directorate; National Science Foundation; University of Maryland, and Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation; James S. McDonnell Foundation; University of Chicago; CARMA partner universities; Gemini Observatory; W. M. Keck Observatory; University of Florida; National Research Council; CONICYT; National Aeronautic and Space Administration through the agency's scientific partnership; University of California; W. M. Keck Foundation; U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. National Science Foundation; Ministry of Science and Education of Spain; Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; Higher Education Funding Council for England; National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University; Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A& M University, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos; Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy SurveyAdditional Links
http://stacks.iop.org/0067-0049/240/i=2/a=33?key=crossref.e1f1e3fe0a499bf04c2b06bc88c09916ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3847/1538-4365/aafad2