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  • Stanford, S A; Eisenhardt, Peter R; Brodwin, Mark; Gonzalez, Anthony H; Stern, Daniel; Buell Jannuzi; Dey, Arjun; Brown, Michael J I; McKenzie, Eric; Elston, Richard

    arXiv.org, 10/2005
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    We report the discovery of a galaxy cluster at z = 1.41. ISCS J143809+341419 was found in the Spitzer/IRAC Shallow Survey of the Bootes field in the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey carried out by IRAC. The cluster candidate was initially identified as a high density region of objects with photometric redshifts in the range 1.3 < z < 1.5. Optical spectroscopy of a limited number of objects in the region shows that 5 galaxies within a ~120 arcsec diameter region lie at z = 1.41 +/- 0.01. Most of these member galaxies have broad--band colors consistent with the expected spectral energy distribution of a passively--evolving elliptical galaxy formed at high redshift. The redshift of ISCS J143809+341419 is the highest currently known for a spectroscopically-confirmed cluster of galaxies.