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The RedMaPPer Galaxy Cluster Catalog From DES Science Verification Data
Benoit-Lévy, A.; Nichol, R. C.; D'Andrea, C. B. +87 more
We describe updates to the redMaPPer algorithm, a photometric red-sequence cluster finder specifically designed for large photometric surveys. The updated algorithm is applied to 150 {{deg}}2 of Science Verification (SV) data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), and to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR8 photometric data set. The DES …