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Our multi-wavelength survey of the Shapley supercluster (z \(\sim\) 0.05) covers a contiguous area of 260 h 70 −2 Mpc2 including the supercluster core. The project’s main aim is to quantify the influence of cluster-scale mass assembly on galaxy evolution in one of the most massive structures in the local Universe. The Shapley supercluster survey (ShaSS) includes nine Abell clusters (A 3552, A 3554, A 3556, A 3558, A 3559, A 3560, A 3562, AS 0724, AS 0726) and two poor clusters (SC 1327-312, SC 1329-313) showing evidence of cluster-cluster interactions. Optical (ugri) and near-infrared (K) imaging acquired with VST and VISTA allow us to study the galaxy population down to m\(^{\star }\) + 6 at the supercluster redshift. A dedicated spectroscopic survey with AAOmega on the Anglo-Australian Telescope provides a magnitude-limited sample of supercluster members with 80 % completeness at \(\sim\) m\(^{\star }\) + 3.
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Merluzzi, P., Busarello, G., Haines, C.P., et al.: Shapley supercluster survey: galaxy evolution from filaments to cluster cores. MNRAS 446, 803–822 (2015)
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Merluzzi, P. et al. (2016). Shapley Supercluster Survey. In: Napolitano, N., Longo, G., Marconi, M., Paolillo, M., Iodice, E. (eds) The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_27
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