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SPT-CLJ2040-4451: An SZ-Selected Galaxy Cluster at z = 1.478 With Significant Ongoing Star Formation

SPT-CLJ2040-4451 -- spectroscopically confirmed at z = 1.478 -- is the highest redshift galaxy cluster yet discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. SPT-CLJ2040-4451 was a candidate galaxy cluster identified in the first 720 deg^2 of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. B. Bayliss , M. L. N. Ashby , J. Ruel , M. Brodwin , K. A. Aird , M. W. Bautz , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , S. Bocquet , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. M. Cho , A. Clocchiatti , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , S. Desai , M. A. Dobbs , J. P. Dudley , R. J. Foley , W. R. Forman , E. M. George , D. Gettings , M. D. Gladders , A. H. Gonzalez , T. de Haan , N. W. Halverson , 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 , K. Mawatari , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , E. D. Miller , L. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , S. S. Murray , 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 , E. Shirokoff , J. Song , B. Stalder , R. Suhada , 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

Mass Calibration and Cosmological Analysis of the SPT-SZ Galaxy Cluster Sample Using Velocity Dispersion $\sigma_v$ and X-ray $Y_\textrm{X}$ Measurements

We present a velocity dispersion-based mass calibration of the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect survey (SPT-SZ) galaxy cluster sample. Using a homogeneously selected sample of 100 cluster candidates from 720 deg2 of the survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Bocquet , A. Saro , J. J. Mohr , K. A. Aird , M. L. N. Ashby , M. Bautz , M. Bayliss , G. Bazin , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , M. Brodwin , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , I. Chiu , H. M. Cho , A. Clocchiatti , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , S. Desai , T. de Haan , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , R. J. Foley , W. R. Forman , D. Gangkofner , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , A. H. Gonzalez , N. W. Halverson , C. Hennig , J. Hlavacek-Larrondo , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , C. Jones , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , J. Liu , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , D. P. Marrone , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , L. Mocanu , S. S. Murray , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , J. Ruel , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , B. Stalder , S. A. Stanford , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Story , C. W. Stubbs , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , R. Williamson , O. Zahn , A. Zenteno

Galaxy Clusters from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. I. Cluster Detection

Based on the photometric redshift catalog of Zou H. et al. (2019), we apply a fast clustering algorithm to identify 540,432 galaxy clusters at $z\lesssim1$ in the DESI legacy imaging surveys, which cover a sky area of about 20,000 deg$^2$.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-21 Hu Zou , Jinghua Gao , Xin Xu , Xu Zhou , Jun Ma , Zhimin Zhou , Tianmeng Zhang , Jundan Nie , Jiali Wang , Suijian Xue

The Canadian Cluster Comparison Project: weak lensing masses and SZ scaling relations

The Canadian Cluster Comparison Project is a comprehensive multi-wavelength survey targeting 50 massive X-ray selected clusters of galaxies to examine baryonic tracers of cluster mass and to probe the cluster-to-cluster variation in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Henk Hoekstra , Andisheh Mahdavi , Arif Babul , Chris Bildfell

First detection of the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect increment at lambda < 650 um

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background as observed through the hot plasma in galaxy clusters. This distortion is a decrement in the CMB intensity for lambda > 1.3 mm, an increment at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Zemcov , M. Rex , T. D. Rawle , J. J. Bock , E. Egami , B. Altieri , A. W. Blain , F. Boone , C. R. Bridge , B. Clement , F. Combes , C. D. Dowell , M. Dessauges-Zavadsky , D. Fadda , O. Ilbert , R. J. Ivison , M. Jauzac , J. -P. Kneib , D. Lutz , R. Pelló , M. J. Pereira , P. G. Pérez-González , J. Richard , G. H. Rieke , G. Rodighiero , D. Schaerer , G. P. Smith , I. Valtchanov , G. L. Walth , P. van der Werf , M. W. Werner

redMaPPer III: A Detailed Comparison of the Planck 2013 and SDSS DR8 RedMaPPer Cluster Catalogs

We compare the Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) cluster sample (PSZ1) to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) redMaPPer catalog, finding that all Planck clusters within the redMaPPer mask and within the redshift range probed by redMaPPer are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Eduardo Rozo , Eli S. Rykoff , James G. Bartlett , Jean B. Melin

SZ Surveys are Coming: What should we do?

Galaxy clusters furnish extremely rich information on the contents and structure of our universe. The potential of galaxy cluster studies to constrain dark energy, for example, motivates a number of ambitious cluster surveys. Among these,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James G. Bartlett

Probing the evolution of galaxy clusters with the SZ Effect

In galaxy clusters the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from the hot intracluster medium (ICM) provides a direct, self-contained measure of the pressure integrated over crossing lines of sight, that is intrinsically independent of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Cavaliere , A. Lapi

A blind detection of a large, complex, Sunyaev--Zel'dovich structure

We present an interesting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) detection in the first of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) 'blind', degree-square fields to have been observed down to our target sensitivity of 100{\mu}Jy/beam. In follow-up deep…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 AMI Consortium , : , T. W. Shimwell , R. W. Barker , P. Biddulph , D. Bly , R. C. Boysen , A. R. Brown , M. L. Brown , C. Clementson , M. Crofts , T. L. Culverhouse , J. Czeres , R. J. Dace , M. L. Davies , R. D'Alessandro , P. Doherty , K. Duggan , J. A. Ely , M. Felvus , F. Feroz , W. Flynn , T. M. O. Franzen , J. Geisbusch , R. Genova-Santos , K. J. B. Grainge , W. F. Grainger , D. Hammett , M. P. Hobson , C. M. Holler , N. Hurley-Walker , R. Jilley , T. Kaneko , R. Kneissl , K. Lancaster , A. N. Lasenby , P. J. Marshall , F. Newton , O. Norris , I. Northrop , D. M. Odell , M. Olamaie , Y. C. Perrott J. C. Pober , G. G. Pooley , M. W. Pospieszalski , V. Quy , C. Rodriguez-Gonzalvez , R. D. E. Saunders , A. M. M. Scaife , M. P. Schammel , J. Schofield , P. F. Scott , C. Shaw , H. Smith , D. J. Titterington , M. Velic , E. M. Waldram , S. West , B. A. Wood , G. Yassin , J. T. L. Zwart

SPT-CL J0546-5345: A Massive z > 1 Galaxy Cluster Selected Via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with the South Pole Telescope

We report the spectroscopic confirmation of SPT-CL J0546-5345 at <z> = 1.067. To date this is the most distant cluster to be spectroscopically confirmed from the 2008 South Pole Telescope (SPT) catalog, and indeed the first z > 1 cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Brodwin , J. Ruel , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , K. Andersson , M. L. N. Ashby , M. Bautz , G. Bazin , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , 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 , 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 , M. Lueker , 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. E. Ruhl , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , J. Song , H. G. Spieler , B. Stalder , S. A. Stanford , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , C. W. Stubbs , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , R. Williamson , Y. Yang , O. Zahn , A. Zenteno

Galaxy clusters identified from the SDSS DR6 and their properties

Clusters of galaxies in most previous catalogs have redshifts z<0.3. Using the photometric redshifts of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 6 (SDSS DR6), we identify 39,668 clusters in the redshift range 0.05< z <0.6…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Z. L. Wen , J. L. Han , F. S. Liu

Cool Core Bias in Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Cluster Surveys

Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) surveys find massive clusters of galaxies by measuring the inverse Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background off of intra-cluster gas. The cluster selection function from such surveys is expected to be nearly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Henry W. Lin , Michael McDonald , Bradford Benson , Eric Miller

The final WaZP galaxy cluster catalog of the Dark Energy Survey and comparison with SZE data

In this work, we present and characterize the galaxy cluster catalog detected by the WaZP cluster finder, which is not based on red-sequence identification, on the full six years of observations of the Dark Energy Survey (DES-Y6). The full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 C. Benoist , M. Aguena , L. da Costa , J. Gschwend , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , L. Bleem , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Costanzi , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , S. Everett , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , G. Giannini , P. Giles , R. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , S. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. James , K. Kuehn , S. Lee , J. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , A. Plazas Malagón , K. Romer , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , I. Sevilla , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller , M. E. da Silva Pereira

Measurement of the Splashback Feature around SZ-selected Galaxy Clusters with DES, SPT and ACT

We present a detection of the splashback feature around galaxy clusters selected using their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signal. Recent measurements of the splashback feature around optically selected galaxy clusters have found that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-27 T. Shin , S. Adhikari , E. J. Baxter , C. Chang , B. Jain , N. Battaglia , L. Bleem , S. Bocquet , J. DeRose , D. Gruen , M. Hilton , A. Kravtsov , T. McClintock , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , T. N. Varga , R. H. Wechsler , H. Wu , S. Aiola , S. Allam , K. Bechtol , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , J. R. Bond , M. Brodwin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , S. K. Choi , C. E. Cunha , T. M. Crawford , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , M. J. Devlin , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , J. Dunkley , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , P. A. Gallardo , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , M. Gralla , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , J. C. Hill , S. P. Ho , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , K. Huffenberger , J. P. Hughes , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , A. G. Kim , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. S. Madhavacheril , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , L. Maurin , J. McMahon , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , S. Naess , F. Nati , L. Newburgh , M. D. Niemack , R. L. C. Ogando , L. A. Page B. Partridge , S. Patil , A. A. Plazas , D. Rapetti , C. L. Reichardt , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , S. Serrano , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , S. T. Staggs , A. Stark , G. Stein , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , A. van Engelen , E. J. Wollack , Z. Xu , Z. Zhang

A Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Survey for High Redshift Clusters

Interferometric observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) toward clusters of galaxies provide sensitive cosmological probes. We present results from 1 cm observations (at BIMA and OVRO) of a large, intermediate redshift cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. J. Mohr , J. E. Carlstrom , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , M. K. Joy , E. M. Leitch , E. D. Reese

Biases on cosmological parameter estimators from galaxy cluster number counts

Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) surveys are promising probes of cosmology - in particular for Dark Energy (DE) -, given their ability to find distant clusters and provide estimates for their mass. However, current SZ catalogs contain tens to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-28 M. Penna-Lima , M. Makler , C. A. Wuensche

Galaxy Populations in Massive Galaxy Clusters to z=1.1: Color Distribution, Concentration, Halo Occupation Number and Red Sequence Fraction

We study the galaxy populations in 74 Sunyaev Zeldovich Effect (SZE) selected clusters from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) survey that have been imaged in the science verification phase of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The sample extends up…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 C. Hennig , J. J. Mohr , A. Zenteno , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , S. Bocquet , V. Strazzullo , A. Saro , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , M. Bayliss , A. Benoit-Levy , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , R. Capasso , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , I. Chiu , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. daCosta , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti-Neto , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , C. Gangkofner , A. Gonzalez , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , J. Hlavacek-Larrondo , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , M. McDonald , P. Melchior , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , E. Neilsen , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , C. Reichardt , A. K. Romer , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , B. Stalder , S. A. Stanford , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , Y. Zhang

Detection of pairwise kSZ effect with DESI galaxy clusters and Planck

We report a $5\sigma$ detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, combining galaxy clusters in DESI imaging surveys and the Planck temperature maps. The detection is facilitated by both improvements in the data and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-16 Ziyang Chen , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Yi Zheng

Signature of cool cores in SZ clusters: a multiwavelength approach

We use the high quality pressure profiles of 239 galaxy clusters made available by the ACCEPT project (Cavagnolo et al. 2009) in order to derive the expected Sunyaev Zeldovich (SZ) signal in a variety of cases that hardly find a counterpart…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Pipino , E. Pierpaoli

Atacama Cosmology Telescope measurements of a large sample of candidates from the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey: Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect confirmation of MaDCoWS candidates using ACT

Galaxy clusters are an important tool for cosmology, and their detection and characterization are key goals for current and future surveys. Using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the Massive and Distant Clusters of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 John Orlowski-Scherer , Luca Di Mascolo , Tanay Bhandarkar , Alex Manduca , Tony Mroczkowski , Stefania Amodeo , Nick Battaglia , Mark Brodwin , Steve K. Choi , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Jo Dunkley , Anthony H. Gonzalez , Dongwon Han , Matt Hilton , Kevin Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Amanda MacInnis , Kenda Knowles , Brian J. Koopman , Ian Lowe , Kavilan Moodley , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Charles Romero , Maria Salatino , Alessandro Schillaci , Neelima Sehgal , Cristóbal Sifón , Suzanne Staggs , S. A. Stanford , Robert Thornton , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu