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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 379, Issue 2, Pages 426-435Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20011316
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methods : data analysis; galaxies : clustering; galaxies : clusters : photometric redshift
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By means of CCD photometry in three bands (Gunn g, r, i) we investigate the existence of 12 candidate clusters extracted via a model independent peak finding algorithm (Puddu et al. 2000) from DPOSS data. The derived color-magnitude diagrams allow us to confirm the physical nature of 9 of the cluster candidates, and to estimate their photometric redshifts. Of the other candidates, one is a fortuitous detection of a true cluster at z similar to 0.4, one is a false detection and the last is undecidable on the basis of the available data. The accuracy of the photometric redshifts is tested on an additional sample of 8 clusters with known spectroscopic redshifts. Photometric redshifts turn out to be accurate within z similar to 0.01 (interquartile range).
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