THE MASSIVE DISTANT CLUSTERS OF WISE SURVEY: THE FIRST DISTANT GALAXY CLUSTER DISCOVERED BY WISE uri icon

abstract

  • We present spectroscopic confirmation of a z = 0.99 galaxy cluster discovered using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). This is the first z 1 cluster candidate from the Massive Distant Clusters of WISE Survey to be confirmed. It was selected as an overdensity of probable z 1 sources using a combination of WISE and Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR8 photometric catalogs. Deeper follow-up imaging data from Subaru and WIYN reveal the cluster to be a rich system of galaxies, and multi-object spectroscopic observations from Keck confirm five cluster members at z = 0.99. The detection and confirmation of this cluster represents a first step toward constructing a uniformly selected sample of distant, high-mass galaxy clusters over the full extragalactic sky using WISE data. 2012. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS

altmetric score

  • 2.85

author list (cited authors)

  • Gettings, D. P., Gonzalez, A. H., Stanford, S. A., Eisenhardt, P., Brodwin, M., Mancone, C., ... Wright, E. L.

citation count

  • 34

complete list of authors

  • Gettings, Daniel P||Gonzalez, Anthony H||Stanford, S Adam||Eisenhardt, Peter RM||Brodwin, Mark||Mancone, Conor||Stern, Daniel||Zeimann, Gregory R||Masci, Frank J||Papovich, Casey||Tanaka, Ichi||Wright, Edward L

publication date

  • November 2012