A CATALOG OF 132,684 CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES IDENTIFIED FROM SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY III

Using the photometric redshifts of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), we identify 132,684 clusters in the redshift range of 0.05 [< or =, slant] z < 0.8. Monte Carlo simulations show that the false detection rate is less than 6% for the whole sample. The completeness is more than 95% for clusters with a mass of M sub(200) > 1.0 x 10 super(14) M sub([middot in circle]) in the redshift range of 0.05 [< or =, slant] z < 0.42, while clusters of z > 0.42 are less complete and have a biased smaller richness than the real one due to incompleteness of member galaxies. We compare our sample with other cluster samples, and find that more than 90% of previously known rich clusters of 0.05 [< or =, slant] z < 0.42 are matched with clusters in our sample. Richer clusters tend to have more luminous brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs). Correlating with X-ray and the Planck data, we show that the cluster richness is closely related to the X-ray luminosity, temperature, and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements. Comparison of the BCGs with the SDSS luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample shows that 25% of LRGs are BCGs of our clusters and 36% of LRGs are cluster member galaxies. In our cluster sample, 63% of BCGs of r sub(petro) < 19.5 satisfy the SDSS LRG selection criteria.