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Sunyaev Zel'dovich observations of a statistically complete sample of galaxy clusters with OCRA-p

We present 30 GHz Sunyaev Zel'dovich observations of a statistically complete sample of galaxy clusters with OCRA-p. The clusters are the 18 most X-ray luminous clusters at z > 0.2 in the ROSAT Brightest Cluster Sample. We correct for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Katy Lancaster , Mark Birkinshaw , Marcin P. Gawronski , Richard Battye , Ian Browne , Richard Davis , Paul Giles , Roman Feiler , Andrzej Kus , Bartosz Lew , Stuart Lowe , Ben Maughan , Abdulaziz Mohammad , Bogna Pazderska , Eugeniusz Pazderski , Mike Peel , Boud Roukema , Peter Wilkinson

Observations of High-Redshift X-Ray Selected Clusters with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array

We report measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in three high-redshift (0.89 < z < 1.03), X-ray selected galaxy clusters. The observations were obtained at 30 GHz during the commissioning period of a new, eight-element…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Stephen Muchovej , John E. Carlstrom , John Cartwright , Christopher Greer , David Hawkins , Ryan Hennessy , Marshall Joy , James W. Lamb , Erik M. Leitch , Michael Loh , Amber D. Miller , Tony Mroczkowski , Clem Pryke , Ben Reddall , Marcus Runyan , Matthew Sharp , David Wood

Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Profiles Measured with the South Pole Telescope

We present Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements of 15 massive X-ray selected galaxy clusters obtained with the South Pole Telescope. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) cluster signals are measured at 150 GHz, and concurrent 220 GHz data are used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Plagge , B. A. Benson , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. -M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , E. M. George , N. R. Hall , N. W. Halverson , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , M. Joy , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , B. Stalder , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson , O. Zahn

X-Ray Properties of three Clusters of Galaxies and their Implications for the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

We present the preparation for an observation of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect with the 100m telescope in Effelsberg. We calculate the expected diminution of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) at radio wavelength towards a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Thierbach , Reinhard Schlickeiser , Richard Wielebinski

Galaxy Clusters Selected with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from 2008 South Pole Telescope Observations

We present a detection-significance-limited catalog of 21 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich selected galaxy clusters. These clusters, along with 1 unconfirmed candidate, were identified in 178 deg^2 of sky surveyed in 2008 by the South Pole Telescope to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 K. Vanderlinde , T. M. Crawford , T. de Haan , J. P. Dudley , L. Shaw , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , M. Brodwin , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , A. T. Crites , S. Desai , M. A. Dobbs , R. J. Foley , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , N. R. Hall , N. W. Halverson , F. W. High , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , M. Joy , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , A. Loehr , M. Lueker , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , C. -C. Ngeow , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , J. Ruel , J. E. Ruhl , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , J. Song , H. G. Spieler , B. Stalder , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , C. W. Stubbs , A. van Engelen , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson , Y. Yang , O. Zahn , A. Zenteno

First Sardinia Radio Telescope detection of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect at 18.6 GHz

Galaxy clusters imprint a distinctive signature on the cosmic microwave background through the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, which enables to study the intracluster plasma distribution and makes them powerful cosmological probes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 S. Cocchi , F. Loi , M. Murgia , P. Marchegiani , V. Vacca , F. Govoni , F. Gandossi , G. Rodighiero

Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations of galaxy clusters out to the virial radius with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager

We present observations using the Small Array of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI; 14-18 GHz) of four Abell and three MACS clusters spanning 0.171-0.686 in redshift. We detect Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signals in five of these without…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jonathan T. L. Zwart , Farhan Feroz , Matthew L. Davies , Thomas M. O. Franzen , Keith J. B. Grainge , Michael P. Hobson , Natasha Hurley-Walker , Ruediger Kneissl , Anthony N. Lasenby , Malak Olamaie , Guy G. Pooley , Carmen Rodriguez-Gonzalvez , Richard D. E. Saunders , Anna M. M. Scaife , Paul F. Scott , Timothy W. Shimwell , David J. Titterington , Elizabeth M. Waldram

Galaxy Clusters at z>=1: Gas Constraints from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array

We present gas constraints from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect measurements in a sample of eleven X-ray and infrared (IR) selected galaxy clusters at z >=1, using data from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array (SZA). The cylindrically integrated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. L. Culverhouse , M. Bonamente , E. Bulbul , J. E. Carlstrom , M. B. Gralla , C. Greer , N. Hasler , D. Hawkins , R. Hennessy , N. N. Jetha , M. Joy , J. W. Lamb , E. M. Leitch , D. P. Marrone , A. Miller , T. Mroczkowski , S. Muchovej , C. Pryke , M. Sharp , D. Woody , S. Andreon , B. Maughan , S. A. Stanford

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Selected Galaxy Clusters at 148 GHz from Three Seasons of Data

[Abridged] We present a catalog of 68 galaxy clusters, of which 19 are new discoveries, detected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZ) at 148 GHz in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) survey of 504 square degrees on the celestial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-09 Matthew Hasselfield , Matt Hilton , Tobias A. Marriage , Graeme E. Addison , L. Felipe Barrientos , Nicholas Battaglia , Elia S. Battistelli , J. Richard Bond , Devin Crichton , Sudeep Das , Mark J. Devlin , Simon R. Dicker , Joanna Dunkley , Rolando Dunner , Joseph W. Fowler , Megan B. Gralla , Amir Hajian , Mark Halpern , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hlozek , John P. Hughes , Leopoldo Infante , Kent D. Irwin , Arthur Kosowsky , Danica Marsden , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Erik D. Reese , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Jon Sievers , Cristóbal Sifón , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Daniel S. Swetz , Eric R. Switzer , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Edward J. Wollack

Imaging the Thermal and Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Signals in a Sample of Ten Massive Galaxy Clusters: Constraints on Internal Velocity Structures and Bulk Velocities

We have imaged the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signals at 140 and 270 GHz towards ten galaxy clusters with Bolocam and AzTEC/ASTE. We also used Planck data to constrain the signal at large angular scales, Herschel-SPIRE images to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Jack Sayers , Alfredo Montaña , Tony Mroczkowski , Grant W. Wilson , Michael Zemcov , Adi Zitrin , Nathália Cibirka , Sunil Golwala , David Hughes , Daisuke Nagai , Erik D. Reese , David Sánchez , John Zuhone

First measurement of cluster temperature using the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

We discuss a new method of finding the cluster temperatures which is independent of distance and therefore very useful for distant clusters. The hot gas of electrons in clusters of galaxies scatters and distorts the cosmic microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steen H. Hansen , Sergio Pastor , Dmitry V. Semikoz

Galaxy Clusters Discovered via the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the 500-square-degree SPTpol Survey

We present a catalog of 689 galaxy cluster candidates detected at significance $\xi>4$ via their thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signature in 95 and 150 GHz data from the 500-square-degree SPTpol survey. We use optical and infrared…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 L. E. Bleem , M. Klein , T. M. C. Abbott , P. A. R. Ade , M. Aguena , O. Alves , A. J. Anderson , F. Andrade-Oliveira , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , M. L. N. Ashby , J. E. Austermann , D. Bacon , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , M. Calzadilla , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , H. C. Chiang , T-L. Chou , R. Citron , C. Corbett Moran , M. Costanzi , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , L. N. da Costa , T. de Haan , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , W. Everett , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , B. Floyd , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. Gallicchio , J. Garc'ia-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. M. George , G. Giannini , S. Grandis , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , N. W. Halverson , S. R. Hinton , G. P. Holder , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , J. Mena-Fernández , D. J. James , F. Kéruzoré , L. Knox , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , S. Lee , D. Li , A. Lowitz , J. L. Marshal , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Montgomery , J. Myles , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Padin , S. Patil , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malag'on , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rodr'iguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , L. Salvati , E. Sanchez , A. Saro , K. K. Schaffer , T. Schrabback , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , M. Smith , T. Somboonpanyakul , B. Stalder , A. A. Stark , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. To , C. Tucker , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , M. Vincenzi , G. Wang , J. Weller , N. Whitehorn , P. Wiseman , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , J. A. Zebrowski , Y. Zhang

Galaxy clusters discovered with a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect survey

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is conducting a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect survey over large areas of the southern sky, searching for massive galaxy clusters to high redshift. In this preliminary study, we focus on a 40 square-degree…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-25 Z. Staniszewski , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. -M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , N. W. Halverson , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , M. Joy , R. Keisler , T. M. Lanting , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , A. Loehr , M. Lueker , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , C. -C. Ngeow , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , B. Stalder , A. A. Stark , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , O. Zahn , A. Zenteno

Further Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations of two Planck ERCSC clusters with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager

We present follow-up observations of two galaxy clusters detected blindly via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and released in the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue. We use the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager, a dual-array 14-18…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 The AMI Consortium , : , Natasha Hurley-Walker , Michael L. Brown , Matthew L. Davies , Farhan Feroz , Thomas M. O. Franzen , Keith Grainge , Michael P. Hobson , Anthony Lasenby , Malak Olamaie , Guy Pooley , Carmen Rodriguez-Gonzalvez , Richard D. E. Saunders , Michel P. Schammel , Anna M. M. Scaife , Paul F. Scott , Timothy Shimwell , David Titterington , Elizabeth Waldram

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array: Constraining a new pressure profile for fitting SZE observations of galaxy clusters

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array (SZA), an eight element interferometer designed to probe the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) from galaxy clusters, which I helped construct and operate, is described here (Part I). I then use SZA observations to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-28 Tony Mroczkowski

High-Redshift Cool-Core Galaxy Clusters Detected via the Sunyaev--Zel'dovich Effect in the South Pole Telescope Survey

We report the first investigation of cool-core properties of galaxy clusters selected via their Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. We use 13 galaxy clusters uniformly selected from 178 deg^2 observed with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-10 D. R. Semler , R. Šuhada , K. A. Aird , M. L. N. Ashby , M. Bautz , M. Bayliss , G. Bazin , S. Bocquet , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , M. Brodwin , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. M. Cho , A. Clocchiatti , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , S. Desai , M. A. Dobbs , J. P. Dudley , R. J. Foley , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , A. H. Gonzalez , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , F. W. High , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , J. D. Hrubes , C. Jones , M. Joy , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , J. Liu , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , A. Mantz , D. P. Marrone , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , L. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , S. S. Murray , T. Natoli , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , J. Ruel , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , A. Saro , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , J. Song , H. G. Spieler , B. Stalder , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Story , C. W. Stubbs , A. van Engelen , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , R. Williamson , O. Zahn , A. Zenteno

Galaxy clusters at z~1 imaged by ALMA with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

We present high angular-resolution measurements of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) toward two galaxy clusters, RCS J2319+0038 at z=0.9 and HSC J0947-0119 at z=1.1, by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 T. Kitayama , S. Ueda , N. Okabe , T. Akahori , M. Hilton , J. P. Hughes , Y. Ichinohe , K. Kohno , E. Komatsu , Y. -T. Lin , H. Miyatake , M. Oguri , C. Sifón , S. Takakuwa , M. Takizawa , T. Tsutsumi , J. van Marrewijk , E. J. Wollack

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Sunyaev Zel'dovich Selected Galaxy Clusters at 148 GHz in the 2008 Survey

We report on twenty-three clusters detected blindly as Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) decrements in a 148 GHz, 455 square-degree map of the southern sky made with data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope 2008 observing season. All SZ detections…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 T. A. Marriage , V. Acquaviva , P. A. R. Ade , P. Aguirre , M. Amiri , J. W. Appel , L. F. Barrientos , E. S. Battistelli , J. R. Bond , B. Brown , B. Burger , J. Chervenak , S. Das , M. J. Devlin , S. R. Dicker , W. B. Doriese , J. Dunkley , R. Dunner , T. Essinger-Hileman , R. P. Fisher , J. W. Fowler , A. Hajian , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , C. Hern'andez-Monteagudo , G. C. Hilton , M. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , R. Hlozek , K. M. Huffenberger , D. H. Hughes , J. P. Hughes , L. Infante , K. D. Irwin , J. B. Juin , M. Kaul , J. Klein , A. Kosowsky , J. M. Lau , M. Limon , Y. -T. Lin , R. H. Lupton , D. Marsden , K. Martocci , P. Mauskopf , F. Menanteau , K. Moodley , H. Moseley , C. B. Netterfield , M. D. Niemack , M. R. Nolta , L. A. Page , L. Parker , B. Partridge , H. Quintana , E. D. Reese , B. Reid , N. Sehgal , B. D. Sherwin , J. Sievers , D. N. Spergel , S. T. Staggs , D. S. Swetz , E. R. Switzer , R. Thornton , H. Trac , C. Tucker , R. Warne , G. Wilson , E. Wollack , Y. Zhao

Cosmological Constraints from a 31 GHz Sky Survey with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array

We present the results of a 6.1 square degree survey for clusters of galaxies via their Sunyaev- Zel'dovich (SZ) effect at 31 GHz. From late 2005 to mid 2007 the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array (SZA) observed four fields of roughly 1.5 square…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Stephen Muchovej , Erik Leitch , John E Carlstrom , Thomas Culverhouse , Chris Greer , David Hawkins , Ryan Hennessy , Marshall Joy , James Lamb , Michael Loh , Daniel P Marrone , Amber Miller , Tony Mroczkowski , Clem Pryke , Matthew Sharp , David Woody

Simulations of cm-wavelength Sunyaev-Zel'dovich galaxy cluster and point source blind sky surveys and predictions for the RT32/OCRA-f and the Hevelius 100-m radio telescope

We investigate the effectiveness of blind surveys for radio sources and galaxy cluster thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects (TSZEs) using the four-pair, beam-switched OCRA-f radiometer on the 32-m radio telescope in Poland. The predictions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 Bartosz Lew , Mark Birkinshaw , Peter Wilkinson , Andrzej Kus