Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 02-Nov-2023)

Result of query: info cati GMBCG DDD.ddddd+DD.ddddd$

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Details on Acronym:   GMBCG
  
GMBCG  (Gaussian Mixture Brightest Cluster Galaxy)
 Write:<<GMBCG  DDD.ddddd+DD.ddddd>>

<<GMBCG  JDDD.ddddd+DD.ddddd>>	(not recognised by Simbad, but found in literature)
 N:  55424
Object:Cluster of G  (SIMBAD class: ClG = Cluster of Galaxies)
  Note:Catalog of N=55424 optically selected galaxy clusters from the    application of a new Gaussian Mixture Brightest Cluster Galaxy    (GMBCG) algorithm to SDSS DR7 data.
    More information available at: http://home.fnal.gov/~jghao/gmbcg_sdss_catalog.html
   Ref:=2010ApJS..191..254H
     byHAO J.
, McKAY T.A., KOESTER B.P., RYKOFF E.S., ROZO E., ANNIS J., WECHSLER R.H., EVRARD A., SIEGEL S.R., BECKER M., BUSHA M., GERDES D., JOHNSTON D.E., SHELDON E.
 Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 191, 254-274 (2010)

    A GMBCG galaxy cluster catalog of 55,424 rich clusters from SDSS DR7.

o<GMBCG DDD.ddddd+DD.ddddd> N=55424.
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <J/ApJS/191/254/>
 Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)