A MaxBCG Catalog of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Abstract

We present a catalog of galaxy clusters selected using the maxBCG redsequence\nmethod from Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric data. This catalog includes\n13,823 clusters with velocity dispersions greater than 400 km/s, and is the\nlargest galaxy cluster catalog assembled to date. They are selected in an\napproximately volume-limited way from a 0.5 Gpc^3 region covering 7500 square\ndegrees of sky between redshifts 0.1 and 0.3. (ABRIGDED)\n