GMBCG cluster catalog for SDSS DR7 is a large optical galaxy cluster catalog, which is built by identifying the BCG + Red Sequence feature of clusters. It is a kind of continuation of the maxBCG cluster catalog (Koester et al 2007) to red shift range beyond 0.3, but with different algorithm. The two catalogs are in good agreement at low redshift (0.1 - 0.3), about 60% of BCGs identified by maxBCG have been exactly identified as BCGs in the GMBCG catalog.
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