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The Las Campanas Distant Galaxy Cluster Survey produced a
catalog of clusters between redshifts of 0.3 and 1.1 over an area
of about 130 sq. degrees of the sky (a 17 sq. degree strip
in the north (+45 dec) and a 1.5 by 90 degree strip in the
south (-12 dec)). We select clusters as low
surface brightness fluctuations in the sky from drift scan
images taken at the Las Campanas 40-inch telescope. Follow-up imaging
and spectroscopy has been done
at a variety of telescopes
to confirm that a substantial portion of the high-quality candidates
(greater than 60%) are clusters. The image on the right shows
an HST image of one of our z ~ 0.8 clusters. See publications 20, 27, 48, 49, 51,52, 54, 55, and 56 for related publications.
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