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Published 1997 | Version public
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Towards an Objectively Defined Catalog of Galaxy Clusters from the Digitized POSS-II

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  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Jet Propulsion Lab

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Abstract

The subjective nature of the Abell catalog has been widely recognized as its major limitation. We report on the preliminary results of an effort to create an unbiased catalog of clusters of galaxies from the galaxy catalogs derived from the digitized POSS-II (DPOSS).

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© 1997 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. This work was supported in part by the NSF PYI award AST-9157412, and the Bressler Foundation.

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97374
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-5722-3_51
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10.1007/978-94-011-5722-3_51 (DOI)

Funding

NSF
AST-9157412
Bressler Foundation

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2019-07-24
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Series Name
Astrophysics and Space Science Library
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212