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most citedThe Northern Sky Optical Cluster Survey II: An Objective Cluster Catalog for 5800 Square Degrees

131 citations · 174 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2012★ 1 cited

Bring out your codes! Bring out your codes! (Increasing Software Visibility and Re-use)

Alice Allen, Bruce Berriman, Robert Brunner +8

Progress is being made in code discoverability and preservation, but as discussed at ADASS XXI, many codes still remain hidden from public view. With the Astrophysics Source Code L…

astro-ph2006★ 36 cited

X-ray Galaxy Clusters in NoSOCS: Substructure and the Correlation of Optical and X-ray Properties

P. A. A. Lopes, R. R. de Carvalho, H. V. Capelato +5

We present a comparison of optical and X-ray properties of galaxy clusters in the northern sky. We determine the recovery rate of X-ray detected clusters in the optical as a functi…

astro-ph2003★ 131 cited

The Northern Sky Optical Cluster Survey II: An Objective Cluster Catalog for 5800 Square Degrees

R. R. Gal, R. R. de Carvalho, P. A. A. Lopes +4

We present a new, objectively defined catalog of candidate galaxy clusters based on the galaxy catalogs from the Digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS). This clust…

astro-ph2002★ 1 cited

The Digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS) II: Photometric Calibration

R. R. Gal, R. R. de Carvalho, S. C. Odewahn +4

We present the photometric calibration technique for the Digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS), used to create seamless catalogs of calibrated objects over large…

astro-ph2001★ 4 cited

The National Virtual Observatory

Robert J. Brunner, S. George Djorgovski, Thomas A. Prince +1

As a scientific discipline, Astronomy is rather unique. We only have one laboratory, the Universe, and we cannot, of course, change the initial conditions and study the resulting e…

astro-ph2000

The New Paradigm: Novel, Virtual Observatory Enabled Science

R. J. Brunner

A virtual observatory will not only enhance many current scientific investigations, but it will also enable entirely new scientific explorations due to both the federation of vast…