The Mid-Infrared Environments of High-Redshift Radio Galaxies
  Taking advantage of the impressive sensitivity of Spitzer to detect massive
galaxies at high redshift, we study the mid-infrared environments of powerful,
high-redshift radio galaxies at 1.2<z<3. Galaxy cluster member candidates were
isolated using a single Spitzer/IRAC mid-infrared color criterion,
[3.6]-[4.5]>-0.1 (AB), in the fields of 48 radio galaxies at 1.2<z<3. This
simple IRAC color selection is effective at identifying galaxies at z>1.2.
Using a counts-in-cell analysis, we identify a field as overdense when 15 or
more red IRAC sources are found within 1arcmin (i.e.,~0.5Mpc at 1.2<z<3) of the
radio galaxy to the 5sigma flux density limits of our IRAC data (f3.6=11.0uJy,
f4.5=13.4uJy). We find that radio galaxies lie preferentially in medium to
dense regions, with 73% of the targeted fields denser than average. Our
(shallow) 120s data permit the rediscovery of previously known clusters and
protoclusters associated with radio galaxies as well as the discovery of new
promising galaxy cluster candidates at z>1.2.
