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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 807, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/807/2/178
Keywords
galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: distances and redshifts
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- National Natural Science Foundation (NNSF) of China [11103032, 11473034]
- Young Researcher Grant of National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- US Department of Energy
- University of Arizona
- Brazilian Participation Group
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- University of Cambridge
- University of Florida
- French Participation Group
- German Participation Group
- Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
- Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
- NewMexico State University
- New York University
- Ohio StateUniversity
- Pennsylvania State University
- University of Portsmouth
- Princeton University
- Spanish Participation Group
- University of Tokyo
- University of Utah
- Vanderbilt University
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- Yale University
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Accurately determining the mass of galaxy clusters is fundamental for many studies of cosmology and galaxy evolution. We collect and rescale the cluster masses of 1191 clusters of 0.05 < z < 0.75 estimated by X-ray or Sunyaev-Zeldovich measurements and use them to calibrate the optical mass proxy. The total r-band luminosity (in units of L*) of these clusters is obtained by using spectroscopic and photometric data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We find that the correlation between the cluster mass M-500 and total r-band luminosity L-500 significantly evolves with redshift. After correcting for the evolution, we define a new cluster richness R-L*,R-500 = L-500 E(z)(1.40) as the optical mass proxy. By using this newly defined richness and the recently released SDSS DR12 spectroscopic data, we update the WHL12 cluster catalog and identify 25,419 new rich clusters at high redshift. In the SDSS spectroscopic survey region, about 89% of galaxy clusters have spectroscopic redshifts. The mass can be estimated with a scatter of 0.17 dex for the clusters in the updated catalog.
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