The K-Selected Butcher-Oemler Effect

De Propris, Roberto; Stanford, S Adam; Eisenhardt, P; Dickinson, Mark

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The K-Selected Butcher-Oemler Effect

Date

2003

Authors

De Propris, Roberto

Stanford, S Adam

Eisenhardt, P

Dickinson, Mark

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We investigate the Butcher-Oemler effect using samples of galaxies brighter than observed-frame K* + 1.5 in 33 clusters at 0.1 ≲z≲0.9. We attempt to duplicate as closely as possible the methodology of Butcher & Oemler. Apart from selecting in the AT b