| Title | The Cut-and-Enhance Method: Selecting Clusters of Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data |
| Authors | Goto, Tomotsugu; Sekiguchi, Maki; Nichol, Robert C.; Bahcall, Neta A.; Kim, Rita S. J.; An ... |
| Bibcode | 2002AJ....123.1807G Search ADS ↗ |
| Abstract | We describe an automated method, the cut-and-enhance (CE) method, for detecting clusters of galaxies in multicolor optical imaging surveys. This method uses simple color cuts, combined with a density enhancement algorithm, to up-weight pairs of galaxies that are close in both angular separation and color. The method is semiparametric, since it uses minimal assumptions about cluster properties in order to minimize pos ... |
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