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Velocity Segregation and Systematic Biases In Velocity Dispersion Estimates With the SPT-GMOS Spectroscopic Survey

The velocity distribution of galaxies in clusters is not universal; rather, galaxies are segregated according to their spectral type and relative luminosity. We examine the velocity distributions of different populations of galaxies within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Matthew. B. Bayliss , Kyle Zengo , Jonathan Ruel , Bradford A. Benson , Lindsey E. Bleem , Sebastian Bocquet , Esra Bulbul , Mark Brodwin , Raffaella Capasso , I-non Chiu , Michael McDonald , David Rapetti , Alex Saro , Brian Stalder , Antony A. Stark , Veronica Strazzullo , Christopher W. Stubbs , Alfredo Zenteno

Comparison of Hectospec Virial Masses with SZE Measurements

We present the first comparison of virial masses of galaxy clusters with their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) signals. We study 15 clusters from the Hectospec Cluster Survey (HeCS) with MMT/Hectospec spectroscopy and published SZE signals.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Kenneth Rines , Margaret J. Geller , Antonaldo Diaferio

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Dynamical masses for 44 SZ-selected galaxy clusters over 755 square degrees

We present galaxy velocity dispersions and dynamical mass estimates for 44 galaxy clusters selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. Dynamical masses for 18 clusters are reported here for the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Cristóbal Sifón , Nick Battaglia , Matthew Hasselfield , Felipe Menanteau , L. Felipe Barrientos , J. Richard Bond , Devin Crichton , Mark J. Devlin , Rolando Dünner , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hlozek , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Leopoldo Infante , Arthur Kosowsky , Danica Marsden , Tobias A. Marriage , Kavilan Moodley , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Hy Trac , Edward J. Wollack

Optical Spectroscopy and Velocity Dispersions of Galaxy Clusters from the SPT-SZ Survey

We present optical spectroscopy of galaxies in clusters detected through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect with the South Pole Telescope (SPT). We report our own measurements of $61$ spectroscopic cluster redshifts, and $48$ velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Ruel , G. Bazin , M. Bayliss , M. Brodwin , R. J. Foley , B. Stalder , K. A. Aird , R. Armstrong , M. L. N. Ashby , M. Bautz , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , S. Bocquet , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , S. C. Chapman , H. M. Cho , A. Clocchiatti , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , S. Desai , M. A. Dobbs , J. P. Dudley , W. R. Forman , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , A. H. Gonzalez , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , F. W. High , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , 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 , D. Nurgaliev , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , A. Saro , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , J. Song , R. Šuhada , H. G. Spieler , S. A. Stanford , 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

The mass and galaxy distribution around SZ-selected clusters

We present measurements of the radial profiles of the mass and galaxy number density around Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected clusters using both weak lensing and galaxy counts. The clusters are selected from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 T. Shin , B. Jain , S. Adhikari , E. J. Baxter , C. Chang , S. Pandey , A. Salcedo , D. H. Weinberg , A. Amsellem , N. Battaglia , M. Belyakov , T. Dacunha , S. Goldstein , A. V. Kravtsov , T. N. Varga , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , J. R. Bond , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Chen , A. Choi , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , J. DeRose , S. Desai , J. De Vicente , M. J. Devlin , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , S. Ferraro , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , P. A. Gallardo , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , J. C. Hill , M. Hilton , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , J. P. Hughes , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , B. J. Koopman , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. Lokken , N. MacCrann , M. S. Madhavacheril , M. A. G. Maia , J. McCullough , J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , K. Moodley , R. Morgan , J. Myles , F. Nati , A. Navarro-Alsina , M. D. Niemack , R. L. C. Ogando , L. A. Page , A. Palmese , B. Partridge , F. Paz-Chinchón , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , J. Prat , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. K. Romer , E. S. Rykoff , M. Salatino , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , A. Schillaci , L. F. Secco , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , B. D. Sherwin , C. Sifón , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , S. T. Staggs , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , E. M. Vavagiakis , J. Weller , E. J. Wollack , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang

Cluster Mass Calibration at High Redshift: HST Weak Lensing Analysis of 13 Distant Galaxy Clusters from the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Survey

We present an HST/ACS weak gravitational lensing analysis of 13 massive high-redshift (z_median=0.88) galaxy clusters discovered in the South Pole Telescope (SPT) Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Survey. This study is part of a larger campaign that aims…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 T. Schrabback , D. Applegate , J. P. Dietrich , H. Hoekstra , S. Bocquet , A. H. Gonzalez , A. von der Linden , M. McDonald , C. B. Morrison , S. F. Raihan , S. W. Allen , M. Bayliss , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , I. Chiu , S. Desai , R. J. Foley , T. de Haan , F. W. High , S. Hilbert , A. B. Mantz , R. Massey , J. Mohr , C. L. Reichardt , A. Saro , P. Simon , C. Stern , C. W. Stubbs , A. Zenteno

HeCS-red: Dense Hectospec Surveys of redMaPPer-Selected Clusters

We use dense redshift surveys to explore the properties of galaxy clusters selected from the redMaPPer catalog of overdensities of red galaxies. Our new survey, HeCS-red (Hectospec Cluster Survey of red-sequence selected clusters), includes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Kenneth J. Rines , Margaret J. Geller , Antonaldo Diaferio , Ho Seong Hwang , Jubee Sohn

Impact of Systematic Errors in Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Surveys of Galaxy Clusters

Future high-resolution microwave background measurements hold the promise of detecting galaxy clusters throughout our Hubble volume through their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signature, down to a given limiting flux. The number density of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew R. Francis , Rachel Bean , Arthur Kosowsky

The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey

We describe the observations and resultant galaxy cluster catalog from the 2770 deg$^2$ SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey (SPT-ECS). Clusters are identified via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, and confirmed with a combination of archival…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 L. E. Bleem , S. Bocquet , B. Stalder , M. D. Gladders , P. A. R. Ade , S. W. Allen , A. J. Anderson , J. Annis , M. L. N. Ashby , J. E. Austermann , S. Avila , J. S. Avva , M. Bayliss , J. A. Beall , K. Bechtol , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , F. Bianchini , C. Blake , M. Brodwin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , 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 , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , T. F. Eifler , W. Everett , B. Flaugher , B. Floyd , J. Frieman , J. Gallicchio , J. García-Bellido , E. M. George , D. W. Gerdes , A. Gilbert , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , C. Heymans , G. P. Holder , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , S. Joudaki , G. Khullar , M. Klein , L. Knox , N. Kuropatkin , A. T. Lee , D. Li , C. Lidman , A. Lowitz , N. MacCrann , G. Mahler , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. Noble , V. Novosad , S. Padin , A. Palmese , D. Parkinson , S. Patil , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , N. S. Ramachandra , C. L. Reichardt , J. D. Remolina González , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , J. E. Ruhl , E. S. Rykoff , B. R. Saliwanchik , E. Sanchez , A. Saro , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , T. Schrabback , S. Serrano , K. Sharon , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , J. Weller , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , Y. Zhang

Extending empirical constraints on the SZ-mass scaling relation to higher redshifts via HST weak lensing measurements of nine clusters from the SPT-SZ survey at $z\gtrsim1$

We present a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) weak gravitational lensing study of nine distant and massive galaxy clusters with redshifts $1.0 \lesssim z \lesssim 1.7$ ($z_\mathrm{median} = 1.4$) and Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) detection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Hannah Zohren , Tim Schrabback , Sebastian Bocquet , Martin Sommer , Fatimah Raihan , Beatriz Hernández-Martín , Ole Marggraf , Behzad Ansarinejad , Matthew B. Bayliss , Lindsey E. Bleem , Thomas Erben , Henk Hoekstra , Benjamin Floyd , Michael D. Gladders , Florian Kleinebreil , Michael A. McDonald , Mischa Schirmer , Diana Scognamiglio , Keren Sharon , Angus H. Wright

Spectroscopy of clusters in the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS)

We present spectroscopic observations of galaxies in 4 clusters at z = 0.7-0.8 and in one cluster at z~0.5 obtained with the FORS2 spectrograph on the VLT as part of the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS), a photometric and spectroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 C. Halliday , B. Milvang-Jensen , S. Poirier , B. M. Poggianti , P. Jablonka , A. Aragon-Salamanca , R. P. Saglia , G. De Lucia , R. Pello , L. Simard , D. I. Clowe , G. Rudnick , J. J. Dalcanton , S. D. M. White , D. Zaritsky

Masses of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters Detected by The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Stacked Lensing Measurements with Subaru HSC Year 3 data

We present a stacked lensing analysis of 96 galaxy clusters selected by the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We select foreground galaxy clusters with a $5\sigma$-level SZ threshold in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Masato Shirasaki , Cristóbal Sifón , Hironao Miyatake , Erwin Lau , Zhuowen Zhang , Neta Bahcall , Mark Devlin , Jo Dunkley , Arya Farahi , Matt Hilton , Yen-Ting Lin , Daisuke Nagai , Suzanne T. Staggs , Tomomi Sunayama , David Spergel , Edward J. Wollack

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

An SZ-selected sample of the most massive galaxy clusters in the 2500-square-degree South Pole Telescope survey

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is currently surveying 2500 deg^2 of the southern sky to detect massive galaxy clusters out to the epoch of their formation using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. This paper presents a catalog of the 26…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Williamson , B. A. Benson , F. W. High , K. Vanderlinde , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , K. Andersson , R. Armstrong , M. L. N. Ashby , M. Bautz , G. Bazin , E. Bertin , L. E. Bleem , M. Bonamente , M. Brodwin , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , S. C. Chapman , A. Clocchiatti , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , S. Desai , M. A. Dobbs , J. P. Dudley , G. G. Fazio , R. J. Foley , W. R. Forman , G. Garmire , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , A. H. Gonzalez , N. W. Halverson , 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 , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , S. S. Murray , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , J. Ruel , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , A. Saro , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , J. Song , H. G. Spieler , B. Stalder , S. A. Stanford , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Story , C. W. Stubbs , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , A. Zenteno

Weak lensing measurements of the APEX-SZ galaxy cluster sample

We present a weak lensing analysis for galaxy clusters from the APEX-SZ survey. For $39$ massive galaxy clusters that were observed via the Sunyaev-Zel\textquotesingle dovich effect (SZE) with the APEX telescope, we analyse deep optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Matthias Klein , Holger Israel , Aarti Nagarajan , Frank Bertoldi , Florian Pacaud , Adrian T. Lee , Martin Sommer , Kaustuv Basu

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

Optical & Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Observations of a New Sample of Distant Rich Galaxy Clusters in the ROSAT All Sky Survey

Finding a sample of the most massive clusters with redshifts $z>0.6$ can provide an interesting consistency check of the $\Lambda$ cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) model. Here we present results from our search for clusters with $0.6\lesssim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 A. Buddendiek , T. Schrabback , C. H. Greer , H. Hoekstra , M. Sommer , T. Eifler , T. Erben , J. Erler , A. K. Hicks , F. W. High , H. Hildebrandt , D. P. Marrone , R. G. Morris , A. Muzzin , T. H. Reiprich , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , A. von der Linden

Velocity dispersion and dynamical masses for 388 Galaxy Clusters and groups. Calibrating the $M_{\rm SZ}$--$M_{\rm dyn}$ scaling relation for the PSZ2 sample

The second catalogue of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources, hereafter PSZ2, represents the largest galaxy cluster sample selected by means of their SZ signature in a full-sky survey. Using telescopes at the Canary Island observatories,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 A. Aguado-Barahona , J. A. Rubino-Martin , A. Ferragamo , R. Barrena , A. Streblyanska , D. Tramonte

Measuring the Ultimate Mass of Galaxy Clusters: Redshifts and Mass Profiles from the Hectospec Cluster Survey (HeCS)

The infall regions of galaxy clusters represent the largest gravitationally bound structures in a $\Lambda$CDM universe. Measuring cluster mass profiles into the infall regions provides an estimate of the ultimate mass of these haloes. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Kenneth Rines , Margaret J. Geller , Antonaldo Diaferio , Michael J. Kurtz

Velocity dispersion and dynamical mass for 270 galaxy clusters in the Planck PSZ1 catalogue

We present the velocity dispersion and dynamical mass estimates for 270 galaxy clusters included in the first Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) source catalogue, the PSZ1. Part of the results presented here were achieved during a two-year…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 A. Ferragamo , R. Barrena , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , A. Aguado-Barahona , A. Streblyanska , D. Tramonte , R. T. Génova-Santos , A. Hempel , H. Lietzen