The Massive Distant Clusters of WISE Survey: The First Distant Galaxy
  Cluster Discovered by WISE
  We present spectroscopic confirmation of a z=0.99 galaxy cluster discovered
using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). This is the
first z~1 cluster candidate from the Massive Distant Clusters of WISE Survey
(MaDCoWS) to be confirmed. It was selected as an overdensity of probable z>~1
sources using a combination of WISE and SDSS-DR8 photometric catalogs. Deeper
follow-up imaging data from Subaru and WIYN reveal the cluster to be a rich
system of galaxies, and multi-object spectroscopic observations from Keck
confirm five cluster members at z=0.99. The detection and confirmation of this
cluster represents a first step towards constructing a uniformly-selected
sample of distant, high-mass galaxy clusters over the full extragalactic sky
using WISE data.
