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ComPACT: Mass-Redshift Properties of the galaxy cluster catalogue

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-05-20 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Machine-learning methods are increasingly applied to astronomical surveys, providing powerful tools for detecting and studying galaxy clusters. We investigate the mass-redshift properties and completeness of the ComPACT galaxy cluster catalogue, constructed using a convolutional neural network applied to publicly available combined ACT+Planck maps. The ComPACT catalogue contains 2,962 SZ-selected galaxy cluster candidates. We confirm clusters by estimating redshifts using literature information and photometric techniques based on DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys data. Cluster masses are derived from ACT+Planck and Planck Compton-y maps via SZ scaling relations. The completeness is assessed using simulated cluster injections into real microwave maps. We confirm approximately \sim60 % of the ComPACT candidates as galaxy clusters. The redshifts span the range 0.007<z<1.70.007 < z < 1.7, including approximately 116 new measurements. Masses are obtained for 56 % of the sample, covering the range (0.2513.1)×1014 M(0.25 - 13.1) \times 10^{14} ~M_\odot and including 158 new mass determinations. We identify five previously unreported massive clusters (M500c>6×1014 MM_{500c} > 6 \times 10^{14}~M_\odot) at z>0.7z > 0.7, increasing the known population of such systems by approximately 10 %. The ComPACT catalogue expands the SZ-selected Planck-like cluster population, especially at high redshift and high mass, demonstrating the effectiveness of deep-learning approaches for cluster detection in microwave data.

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@article{arxiv.2605.20027,
  title  = {ComPACT: Mass-Redshift Properties of the galaxy cluster catalogue},
  author = {S. Voskresenskaia and N. Lyskova and I. Zaznobin and A. Meshcheryakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.20027},
  year   = {2026}
}

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14 pages, 11 figures, Submitted to A&A