Groups and Protocluster Candidates in the CLAUDS and HSC-SSP Joint Deep Surveys

Qingyang Li, Xiaohu Yang, Chengze Liu, Yipeng Jing, Min He, Jia Sheng Huang, Y. Sophia Dai, Marcin Sawicki, Stephane Arnouts, Stephen Gwyn, Thibaud Moutard, H. J. Mo, Kai Wang, Antonios Katsianis, Weiguang Cui, Jiaxin Han, I. Non Chiu, Yizhou Gu, Haojie Xu

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Abstract

Using the extended halo-based group finder developed by Yang et al., which is able to deal with galaxies via spectroscopic and photometric redshifts simultaneously, we construct galaxy group and candidate protocluster catalogs in a wide redshift range (0 < z < 6) from the joint CFHT Large Area U-band Deep Survey and Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program deep data set. Based on a selection of 5,607,052 galaxies with i-band magnitude m i < 26 and a sky coverage of 34.41 deg2, we identify a total of 2,232,134 groups, of which 402,947 groups have at least three member galaxies. We have visually checked and discussed the general properties of these richest groups at redshift z > 2.0. By checking the galaxy number distributions within a 5-7 h -1Mpc projected separation and a redshift difference "z ≤ 0.1 around those richest groups at redshift z > 2, we identify lists of 761, 343, and 43 protocluster candidates in the redshift bins 2 ≤ z < 3, 3 ≤ z < 4, and z ≥ 4, respectively. In general, these catalogs of galaxy groups and protocluster candidates will provide useful environmental information in probing galaxy evolution along cosmic time.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume933
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022 Jul 1

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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