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ESO Imaging Survey VII. Distant Cluster Candidates over 12 square degrees
In this paper the list of candidate clusters identified from the I-band data
of the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS) is completed using the images obtained over a
total area of about 12 square degrees. Together with the data reported earlier
the total I-band coverage of EIS is 17 square degrees, which has yielded a
sample of 252 cluster candidates in the redshift range 0.2 \lsim z \lsim 1.3.
This is the largest optically-selected sample currently available in the
Southern Hemisphere. It is also well distributed in the sky thus providing
targets for a variety of VLT programs nearly year round.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysic
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