Optical detection of galaxy clusters

This thesis first presents a relatively straight forward approach for detecting galaxy clusters using spectroscopic data. A friend-of-friends algorithm based on that of Huchra & Geller (1982) is implemented with linking parameters that take into account selection effects on the the 2dF-SDSS and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farrens, S.
Published: University College London (University of London) 2011
Subjects:
500
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.565350