Description
A photographic survey for faint galaxies has been carried out with fine-grained photographic emulsions using the 1.2m Schmidt and 5m Hale telescopes, as well as the 4m Mayall telescope. A total of 418 clusters have been found with redshifts mostly in the range from 0.15 to 0.92. The survey was planned to minimize distance-dependent selection effects in the resulting catalog. In areas of sky where the deepest search was made, the sample is complete to about z=0.50; there are 11 clusters per square degree at this limit. At a redshift of 1.0 there should be 63 or 45 clusters per square degree depending on whether q_0_ is 0.0 or 0.5, provided there is no evolution.
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