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The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey: The Value of Ωm and σ8

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Michael D. Gladders
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Toronto, 60 St George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 3H8
H. K. C. Yee
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Toronto, 60 St George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 3H8

Abstract

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The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) is a 100 deg2 optical survey for high-redshift galaxy clusters. One of the goals of the survey is a measurement of Ωm and σ8 via the evolution of the mass spectrum of galaxy clusters. Herein we briefly describe how this will initially be done, and also demonstrate the eventual power of the RCS for this type of measurement by a qualitative analysis of the first 1/10th of the survey data.

Type
Part XII: Poster Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2005 

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