Towards discovery of gravitationally lensed explosive transients: the brightest galaxies in massive galaxy clusters from Planck-SZ2

Autor: Smith, Joshua C., Ryczanowski, Dan, Bianconi, Matteo, Cristescu, Denisa, Harisankar, Sivani, Hawkins, Saskia, James, Megan L., Ridley, Evan J., Wooding, Simon, Smith, Graham P.
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Research Notes of the AAS, Volume 7, Issue 3, id.51. (2023)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/acc333
Popis: We combine the Planck-SZ2 galaxy cluster catalogue with near-infrared photometry of galaxies from the VISTA Hemisphere Survey to identify candidate brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in 306 massive clusters in the Southern skies at redshifts of $z>0.1$. We find that 91% of these clusters have at least one candidate BCG within the 95% confidence interval on the cluster centers quoted by the Planck collaboration, providing reassurance that our analyses are statistically compatible, and find 92% to be reasonable candidates following a manual inspection. We make our catalog publicly available to assist colleagues interested in multi-wavelength studies of cluster cores, and the search for gravitationally lensed explosive transients in upcoming surveys including the Legacy Survey of Space and Time by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
Comment: Published in RNAAS in March 2023. 3 pages, 1 figure
Databáze: arXiv