Detecting clusters of galaxies in the sloan digital sky survey. I. Monte Carlo comparison of cluster detection algorithms

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 1 1753, 2002, Pages 20-36

  Kim, Rita Seung Jung ^a,b   Kepner, Jeremy V ^a,c   Postman, Marc ^d   Strauss, Michael A ^a   Bahcall, Neta A ^a   Gunn, James E ^a   Lupton, Robert H ^a   Annis, James ^e   Nichol, Robert C ^f   Castander, Francisco J ^g,h   Brinkmann, J ⁱ   Brunner, Robert J ^j   Connolly, Andrew ^k   Csabai, Istvan ^b   Hindsley, Robert B ^l   Ivenzić, Željko ^a   Vogeley, Michael S ^m   York, Donald G ⁿ  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^d STScI   (United States)

^e FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^f CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

ⁱ APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^j CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^l US NAVAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^m DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: clusters: general; Large scale structure of universe; Methods: data analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043166337     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324727     Document Type: Review

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