Bibcode
Brown, Jonathon; Casey, Caitlin M.; Dannerbauer, H.
Referencia bibliográfica
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #231, id.#252.07
Fecha de publicación:
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2018
Número de citas
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Descripción
To better understand how galaxy clusters form, we look at their
progenitors which have not yet virialized: protoclusters. We use the
Planck Collaboration (2016) published list of 2,151 protocluster
candidate sources to explore further characterization as bonafide
protoclusters or other extragalactic phenomena. We investigate the
correlation of Planck sources with those detected by IRAS and WISE. Less
than 1% of sources are detected with IRAS. We hypothesize that these sit
at low redshifts, yet their Planck-determined FIR/submm photometric
redshifts are evenly distributed out to high-redshifts. We visually
inspect WISE imaging to separate sources into those that exhibit
overdensities, or “clumps” of sources as possible
lower-redshift protoclusters; detection of an overdensity by WISE should
also imply sources sit at lower redshifts, yet we also find similar
discord between such sources’ FIR/submm photometric redshifts and
our conjecture that they are low-redshift sources. The next step in our
analysis is to model the spectral energy distributions of Planck sources
with WISE and IRAS detections to further refine their redshift
constraints.