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Padilla-Torres, Carmen P.; Rebolo, Rafael; Gutiérrez, Carlos M.; Watson, Robert; Génova-Santos, Ricardo; Juncosa, Robert
Bibliographical reference
Galaxy Evolution Across the Hubble Time, Edited by F. Combes and J. Palous, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 2, IAU Symposium #235, held 14-17 August, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007., pp.232-232
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In a recent survey for baryonic matter at large scales in the Corona
Borealis Supercluster, using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect, it has
been found SZ evidence (Génova-Santos et al. 2005, Battistelli et
al. 2006) for a potentially large amount of warm/hot plasma towards the
center of this supercluster, in a region where there are no known
clusters of galaxies. We investigate the distribution of galaxies in the
SDSS for this region and compare it with observations of known clusters
and with various control fields in the Corona Borealis Supercluster and
in other regions. Our analysis provides evidence for an excess in the
number density of galaxies (down to completeness magnitude r ≤ 20) in
the location of the two strongest SZ spots observed with the Very Small
Array as compared with the average density of galaxies towards the
Supercluster which is already a factor two higher than the density of
background control fields. The overdensity in the SZ spots is however
smaller than in known clusters members of the Supercluster (Abell 2065,
Abell 2089, Abell 2061). Our findings support the existence of a broadly
distributed population of galaxies in the two SZ spots with colours
consistent with membership in the Corona Supercluster.