The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society (천문학회보)
- Volume 40 Issue 2
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- Pages.49.2-49.2
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- 2015
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- 1226-2692(pISSN)
Discovery of high redshift galaxy clusters and superclusters and study of star formation-density relation
- Hyun, Minhee (CEOU/Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
- Im, Myungshin (CEOU/Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
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Kim, Jae-Woo
(CEOU/Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
- Lee, Seong-Kook (CEOU/Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
- Edge, Alastair C. (Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, University of Durham)
- Published : 2015.10.15
Abstract
Galaxy cluster is the most important laboratoriy to study the effect of environment on galaxies, one of key questions in astronomy. In the local universe, it is well known that red, passive galaxies are concentrated in the cluster core. However, it is still controversial whether the star formation-density relation at the low redshift is retained in the distant universe. Many surveys have tried to find galaxy clusters at various epochs. However the optical dataset has limitations in finding galaxy clusters at z > 1, since the bulk of stellar emission of z > 1 galaxies is redshifted into the near-IR regime. We used the multi-wavelength data from the UKIDSS DXS (J and K bands), the SWIRE (4 IRAC bands), and the PAN-STARRS (g, r, i, z, y bands) and IMS (J band; Im et al. 2015, in preparation) in the European Large Area ISO Survey North1 (ELAIS-N1) field to search for high redshift galaxy clusters and study the properties of member galaxies. Using the multi-wavelength data, we investigated overdensities of galaxies at 0.2 < z < 1.6 based on the photometric redshift information. We found several superclusters where cluster candidates are concentrated within scales of few tens of Mpc at z ~ 0.9. Interestingly, some of the supercluster candidates consist of galaxy clusters which are dominated by blue galaxies. We will present high redshift galaxy cluster and supercluster candidates in ELAIS-N1 field and galaxy properties in different environments including dense clusters and fields.
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