WINGS: a WIde-field nearby Galaxy-cluster survey III. Deep near-infrared photometry of 28 nearby clusters

Valentinuzzi, T.; Woods, D.; Fasano, G.; Riello, M.; D'Onofrio, M.; Varela, J.; Bettoni, D.; Cava, A.; Couch, W. J.; Dressler, A.; Fritz, J.; Moles, M.; Omizzolo, A.; Poggianti, B. M.; Kjaergaard, P.
2009
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
DOI
10.1051/0004-6361/200811051
Context. This is the third paper in a series devoted to the WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS). WINGS is a long-term project aimed at gathering wide-field, multiband imaging and spectroscopy of galaxies in a complete sample of 77 X-ray selected, nearby clusters (0.04 < z < 0.07) located far from the galactic plane (vertical bar b vertical bar >= 20 degrees). The main goal of this project is to establish a local reference sample for evolutionary studies of galaxies and galaxy clusters.