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Title: A MaxBCG Catalogue of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Authors: B.P. Koester, T.A. McKay, J. Annis, R. H. Wechsler, A. Evrard, L. Bleem, M. Becker, D. Johnston, E. Sheldon, R. Nichol, C. Miller, R. Scranton, N. Bahcall, J. Barentine, H. Brewington, J. Brinkmann, M. Harvanek, S. Kleinman, J. Krzesinski, D. Long, A. Nitta, D. Schneider, S. Sneddin, W. Voges, D. York, SDSS collaboration

We present a catalog of galaxy clusters selected using the maxBCG red-sequence method from Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric data. This catalogue includes 13,823 clusters with velocity dispersions greater than 400 km/s, and is the largest galaxy cluster catalogue assembled to date. They are selected in an approximately volume-limited way from a 0.5 Gpc³ region covering 7500 square degrees of sky between redshifts 0.1 and 0.3.

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