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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). I. Introduction to the Survey

  • Authors: Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Côté, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, S. D. J. Gwyn, Eric W. Peng, Lauren A. MacArthur, Pierre-Alain Duc, A. Boselli, Simona Mei, Thomas Erben, Alan W. McConnachie, Patrick R. Durrell, J. Christopher Mihos, Andrés Jordán, Ariane Lançon, Thomas H. Puzia, Eric Emsellem, Michael L. Balogh, John P. Blakeslee, Ludovic van Waerbeke, Raphaël Gavazzi, Bernd Vollmer, J. J. Kavelaars, David Woods, Nicholas M. Ball, S. Boissier, Stéphane Courteau, E. Ferriere, G. Gavazzi, Hendrik Hildebrandt, P. Hudelot, M. Huertas-Company, Chengze Liu, Dean McLaughlin, Y. Mellier, Martha Milkeraitis, David Schade, Chantal Balkowski, Frédéric Bournaud, R. G. Carlberg, S. C. Chapman, Henk Hoekstra, Chien Peng, Marcin Sawicki, Luc Simard, James E. Taylor, R. Brent Tully, Wim van Driel, Christine D. Wilson, Todd Burdullis, Billy Mahoney, and Nadine Manset

Ferrarese et al. 2012 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 200 4.

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Caption: Figure 27.

Panels (a)–(i): color images of nine background clusters identified in the NGVS using the 3D-Matched-Filter cluster finding algorithm of Milkeraitis et al. (2010) and the red-sequence-based algorithm of Mei et al. (2012). Cluster photometric redshifts increase from z ~ 0.4 in panel (a) to z ~ 0.8 in panel (i). Each image measures 1.5 × 1.5 Mpc in size. The NGVS should yield 500–1000 clusters with in the range 0.1 ≲ z ≲ 1.

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