A catalogue of high redshift clusters

Juncosa, R.; Gutiérrez, C. M.
Bibliographical reference

First Light Science with the GTC (Eds. R. Guzmán, C. Packham, J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa, & S. Torres-Peimbert) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 29, pp. 170-170 (2007) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)

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2007
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Description
Distant clusters of galaxies provide a powerful method to study the formation and evolution of galaxies and large scale structure of the Universe. However, the number of known clusters at high redshift (z > 0.5) is still limited. As a preparatory work for detailed studies with GTC, we are building a catalogue of such objects analyzing public deep wide optical and near-IR surveys. In a region of ˜ 9 square degrees, ˜ 100 new clusters (˜ 60 of them at z > 0.5) have been detected.