The las campanas/AAT rich cluster survey - I. precision and reliability of the photometric catalogue

Kevin Alan Pimbblet, Ian Smail, Alastair C Edge, Warrick J Couch, Eileen O'Hely, Ann I Zabludoff

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Abstract

The Las Campanas Observatory and Anglo-Australian Telescope Rich Cluster Survey (LARCS) is a panoramic imaging and spectroscopic survey of an X-ray luminosity-selected sample of 21 clusters of galaxies at 0.07 <z <0.16. Charge-coupled device (CCD) imaging was obtained in B and R of typically 2 degrees wide regions centred on the 21 clusters, and the galaxy sample selected from the imaging is being used for an on-going spectroscopic survey of the clusters with the 2dF spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This paper presents the reduction of the imaging data and the photometric analysis used in the survey. Based on an overlapping area of 12.3 deg(2) we compare the CCD-based LARCS catalogue with the photographic-based galaxy catalogue used for the input to the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) from the APM, to the completeness of the GRS/APM catalogue, b(J) = 19.45. This comparison confirms the reliability of the photometry across our mosaics and between the clusters in our survey.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)588 - 600
Number of pages13
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume327
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2001
Externally publishedYes

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