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Published November 1, 2012 | Version Published + Submitted
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The Massive Distant Clusters of WISE Survey: The First Distant Galaxy Cluster Discovered by WISE

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  • 1. ROR icon University of Florida
  • 2. ROR icon Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • 3. ROR icon University of California, Davis
  • 4. ROR icon Jet Propulsion Lab
  • 5. ROR icon University of Missouri
  • 6. ROR icon Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
  • 7. ROR icon Texas A&M University
  • 8. ROR icon University of Hawaii at Hilo
  • 9. ROR icon University of California, Los Angeles

Abstract

We present spectroscopic confirmation of a z = 0.99 galaxy cluster discovered using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). This is the first z ~ 1 cluster candidate from the Massive Distant Clusters of WISE Survey to be confirmed. It was selected as an overdensity of probable z ≳ 1 sources using a combination of WISE and Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR8 photometric catalogs. Deeper follow-up imaging data from Subaru and WIYN reveal the cluster to be a rich system of galaxies, and multi-object spectroscopic observations from Keck confirm five cluster members at z = 0.99. The detection and confirmation of this cluster represents a first step toward constructing a uniformly selected sample of distant, high-mass galaxy clusters over the full extragalactic sky using WISE data.

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© 2012 American Astronomical Society. Received 2012 June 1; accepted 2012 September 28; published 2012 October 17. The authors thank the anonymous referee whose comments improved the quality of the manuscript. This publication makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). D.P.G. and A.H.G. acknowledge support for this research from the NASA Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (ADAP) through grant NNX12AE15G. Some of the data presented herein were obtained at the W.M. Keck Observatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W.M. Keck Foundation. Based in part on data collected at Subaru Telescope, which is operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. D.P.G. was a Visiting Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The WIYN Observatory is a joint facility of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive,which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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NNX12AE15G
W. M. Keck Foundation
NASA/JPL/Caltech

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2012-12-04
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