RELICS: Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey
@article{Coe2019RELICSRL, title={RELICS: Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey}, author={Dan Coe and Brett Salmon and Maru{\vs}a Brada{\vc} and Larry D. Bradley and Keren Sharon and Adi Zitrin and Ana Acebr{\'o}n and Catherine Cerny and Nath'alia Cibirka and Victoria Strait and Rachel Paterno-Mahler and Guillaume Mahler and Roberto J. Avila and Sara Ogaz and Kuang-Han Huang and Debora Pelliccia and Daniel P. Stark and Ramesh Mainali and Pascal A. Oesch and Michele Trenti and Daniela Carrasco and William A. Dawson and Steven A. Rodney and L. G. Strolger and Adam G. Riess and Christine Jones and Brenda L. Frye and Nicole G. Czakon and Keiichi Umetsu and Benedetta Vulcani and Or Graur and Saurabh W. Jha and Melissa. L. Graham and Alberto Molino and Mario Nonino and Jens Hjorth and Jonatan Selsing and Lise Christensen and Shotaro Kikuchihara and Masami Ouchi and Masamune Oguri and Brian Welch and Brian C. Lemaux and Felipe Andrade-Santos and Austin T. Hoag and Traci L. Johnson and Avery Peterson and Matthew Past and Carter Fox and Irene Agulli and Rachael C. Livermore and Russell E. Ryan and Daniel Lam and Irene Sendra-Server and Sune Toft and Lorenzo Lovisari and Yuanyuan Su}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2019}, volume={884} }
Large surveys of galaxy clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Spitzer, including the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble and the Frontier Fields, have demonstrated the power of strong gravitational lensing to efficiently deliver large samples of high-redshift galaxies. We extend this strategy through a wider, shallower survey named RELICS, the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey, described here. Our 188-orbit Hubble Treasury Program observed 41 clusters at 0.182 ≤ z…
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