High redshift galaxy clusters in ELAIS-N1/N2 fields with a new color selection technique

  • Hyun, Minhee (CEOU, Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Im, Myungshin (CEOU, Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Jae-Woo (CEOU, Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Seong-Kook (CEOU, Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2014.04.10

Abstract

Galaxy clusters, the largest gravitationally bound systems, are an important means to place constraints on cosmological models. Moreover, they are excellent places to test galaxy evolution models in connection to the environments. To this day, massive clusters have been found unexpectedly(Kang & Im 2009, Durret et al. 2011, Tashikawa et al. 2012) and evolution of galaxies in cluster have been still controversial (Elbaz et al. 2007, Cooper et al. 2008, Tran et al. 2009). Finding galaxy cluster candidates at z>1 in a wide, deep imaging survey data will enable us to solve the such issues of modern extragalactic astronomy. We report new candidates of galaxy clusters and their physical properties in one of the wide and deep survey fields, European Large Area ISO Survey North1(ELAIS-N1) and North2(ELAIS-N2) fields, covering sky area of and each. We also suggest a new useful color selection technique to separate 1 < z < 2 galaxies from low-z galaxies by combining multi-wavelength data from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Deep Extragalactic Survey (UKIDSS DXS/J and K band), Spitzer Wise-area InfraRed Extragalactic survey (SWIRE/two mid-infrared bands), Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT/z band), Issac Newton Telescope(INT/ u, g, r, i, z band) and Infrared Medium-deep Survey(IMS/J band).

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