High redshift galaxy clusters and superclusters in ELAIS-N1

  • Hyun, Minhee (CEOU/Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Im, Myungshin (CEOU/Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • 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 : 2015.04.10

Abstract

Galaxy overdensities such as galaxy clusters and superclusters are the largest gravitationally bound systems in the Universe. Since they contain many different levels of local densities, they are excellent places to test galaxy evolution models in connection to the environments. The environment studies of galaxies at z ~ 1 are important because the environmental quenching seems to be an important mechanism to reduce star formation activities in galaxies at z < 1. However, there have been not many studies about high redshift galaxy clusters at z ~ 1 because of the lack of wide and deep multi-wavelength data. We have used the multi-wavelength data from the UKIDSS DXS (J and K band), the SWIRE (4 IRAC bands), and the PAN-STARRS (g, r, i, z, y bands) in the ELAIS-N1 field. We identified galaxy cluster candidates at 0.2 < z < 1.6 using the multi-wavelength data. We found several superclusters where cluster candidates are concentrated on few tens of Mpc scale. Interestingly, some of the supercluster candidates consist of galaxy clusters which have high blue galaxy. 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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