Poster Presentation

Discovery of Massive Galaxy Cluster Candidates in the Southern Sky

Author(s): Bomi Park(SNU), Myungshin Im(SNU), Joonho Kim(Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute), Minhee Hyun(Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute), Seong-Kook Lee(SNU), Jae-Woo Kim(Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute), Eunhee Ko(SUN)

Presenter: Bomi Park (Seoul National University)

Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the universe located at the top of the cosmological hierarchical model, so the evolution of the universe can be understood by studying clusters of galaxies. Therefore, finding a larger number of galaxy clusters plays an important role in exploring how the universe evolves. A large number of catalogs for galaxy clusters in the northern sky have been published; however, there are few catalogs in the southern sky due to the lack of wide sky survey data. KMTNet Synoptic Survey of Southern Sky(KS4) project, which observes a wide area of the southern sky about 7000 deg2 with KMTNet telescopes for two years, is in progress under the SNU Astronomy Research Center. We use the KS4 multi-wavelength optical data and measure photometric redshifts of galaxies for finding galaxy clusters at redshift z<1. Currently, the KS4 project has observed approximately 50% of the target region, and a pipeline that measures photometric redshifts of galaxies has been created. When the project is completed, we expect to find more than a hundred thousand galaxy clusters, and this will improve the study of galaxy clusters in the southern sky.