A reliable cluster detection technique using photometric redshifts: introducing the 2TecX algorithm

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 395, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1845-1856

  Van Breukelen, Caroline ^a,b   Clewley, Lee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Physics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: clusters: general; Methods: data analysis; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; GALAXIES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CLUSTER DETECTION; DETECTION ALGORITHM; GALAXIES: CLUSTERS: GENERAL; HIGH-REDSHIFT; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; OPTICAL/INFRARED IMAGING; PHOTOMETRICS; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; RED SHIFT; TECHNIQUES: PHOTOMETRIC;

PHOTOMETRY;

EID: 66149190933     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14692.x     Document Type: Article

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