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The Sloan Bright Arcs Survey: Ten Strong Gravitational Lensing Clusters and Evidence of Overconcentration
Matthew P. Wiesner, Huan Lin, Sahar S. Allam +6
We describe ten strong lensing galaxy clusters of redshift 0.26-0.56 that were found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We present measurements of richness, mass and velocity dispers…
The Dark Energy Spectrometer (DESpec): A Multi-Fiber Spectroscopic Upgrade of the Dark Energy Camera and Survey for the Blanco Telescope
F. Abdalla, J. Annis, D. Bacon +29
We describe an initiative to build and use the Dark Energy Spectrometer (DESpec), a wide-field spectroscopic survey instrument for the Blanco 4 meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inte…
The Voronoi Tessellation cluster finder in 2+1 dimensions
Marcelle Soares-Santos, Reinaldo R. de Carvalho, James Annis +6
We present a detailed description of the Voronoi Tessellation (VT) cluster finder algorithm in 2+1 dimensions, which improves on past implementations of this technique. The need fo…
The Sloan Bright Arcs Survey : Discovery of Seven New Strongly Lensed Galaxies from z=0.66-2.94
Jeffrey M. Kubo, Sahar S. Allam, Emily Drabek +11
We report the discovery of seven new, very bright gravitational lens systems from our ongoing gravitational lens search, the Sloan Bright Arcs Survey (SBAS). Two of the systems are…
Flying across Galaxy Clusters with Google Earth: additional imagery from SDSS co-added data
Jiangang Hao, James Annis
Galaxy clusters are spectacular. We provide a Google Earth compatible imagery for the deep co-added images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and make it a tool for examing galaxy c…
A GMBCG Galaxy Cluster Catalog of 55,424 Rich Clusters from SDSS DR7
Jiangang Hao, Timothy A. McKay, Benjamin P. Koester +11
We present a large catalog of optically selected galaxy clusters from the application of a new Gaussian Mixture Brightest Cluster Galaxy (GMBCG) algorithm to SDSS Data Release 7 da…