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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Catalog of > 4000 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters

We present a catalog of 4195 optically confirmed Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy clusters detected with signal-to-noise > 4 in 13,211 deg$^2$ of sky surveyed by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). Cluster candidates were selected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 M. Hilton , C. Sifón , S. Naess , M. Madhavacheril , M. Oguri , E. Rozo , E. Rykoff , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Adhikari , M. Aguena , S. Aiola , S. Allam , S. Amodeo , A. Amon , J. Annis , B. Ansarinejad , C. Aros-Bunster , J. E. Austermann , S. Avila , D. Bacon , N. Battaglia , J. A. Beall , D. T. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , T. Bhandarkar , S. Bhargava , J. R. Bond , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , E. Calabrese , J. Carretero , S. K. Choi , A. Choi , C. Conselice , L. N. da Costa , M. Costanzi , D. Crichton , K. T. Crowley , R. Dünner , E. V. Denison , M. J. Devlin , S. R. Dicker , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , J. Dunkley , S. Everett , S. Ferraro , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , P. A. Gallardo , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , P. Giles , J. E. Golec , M. B. Gralla , S. Grandis , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , D. Han , W. G. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , J. C. Hill , G. C. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , S. R. Hinton , S-P. P. Ho , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , J. Hubmayr , K. M. Huffenberger , J. P. Hughes , A. T. Jaelani , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , S. Kent , M. Carrasco Kind , K. Knowles , B. J. Koopman , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , Y-T. Lin , M. Lokken , S. I. Loubser , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , T. A. Marriage , J. Martin , J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , H. Miyatake , K. Moodley , R. Morgan , T. Mroczkowski , F. Nati , L. B. Newburgh , M. D. Niemack , A. J. Nishizawa , R. L. C. Ogando , J. Orlowski-Scherer , L. A. Page , A. Palmese , B. Partridge , F. Paz-Chinchón , P. Phakathi , A. A. Plazas , N. C. Robertson , A. K. Romer , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Salatino , E. Sanchez , E. Schaan , A. Schillaci , N. Sehgal , S. Serrano , T. Shin , S. M. Simon , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , D. N. Spergel , S. T. Staggs , E. R. Storer , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , H. Trac , J. N. Ullom , L. R. Vale , J. Van Lanen , E. M. Vavagiakis , J. De Vicente , R. D. Wilkinson , E. J. Wollack , Z. Xu , Y. Zhang

The distribution of two-dimensional eccentricity of Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect and X-ray surface brightness profiles

With the triaxial density profile of dark matter halos and the corresponding equilibrium gas distribution, we derive two-dimensional Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect and X-ray surface brightness profiles for clusters of galaxies. It is found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. -G. Wang , Z. -H. Fan

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

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Physical Properties and Purity of a Galaxy Cluster Sample Selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

We present optical and X-ray properties for the first confirmed galaxy cluster sample selected by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from 148 GHz maps over 455 square degrees of sky made with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. These maps, coupled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-28 Felipe Menanteau , Jorge Gonzalez , Jean-Baptiste Juin , Tobias A. Marriage , Erik Reese , Viviana Acquaviva , Paula Aguirre , John William Appel , Andrew J. Baker , L. Felipe Barrientos , Elia S. Battistelli , J. Richard Bond , Sudeep Das , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Amruta J. Deshpande , Joanna Dunkley , Rolando Dunner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Joseph W. Fowler , Amir Hajian , Mark Halpern , Matthew Hasselfield , Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renee Hlozek , John P. Hughes , Kevin M. Huffenberger , Leopoldo Infante , Kent D. Irwin , Jeff Klein , Arthur Kosowsky , Yen-Ting Lin , Danica Marsden , Kavilan Moodley , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , Lyman A. Page , Lucas Parker , Bruce Partridge , Jon Sievers , Neelima Sehgal , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Daniel Swetz , Eric Switzer , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Ryan Warne , Ed Wollack

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

Galaxy Clusters Discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey

We present a catalog of galaxy clusters selected via their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signature from 2500 deg$^2$ of South Pole Telescope (SPT) data. This work represents the complete sample of clusters detected at high significance in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-17 L. E. Bleem , B. Stalder , T. de Haan , K. A. Aird , S. W. Allen , D. E. Applegate , M. L. N. Ashby , M. Bautz , M. Bayliss , B. A. Benson , S. Bocquet , M. Brodwin , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , I. Chiu , H. M. Cho , A. Clocchiatti , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , R. J. Foley , W. R. Forman , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , A. H. Gonzalez , N. W. Halverson , C. Hennig , H. Hoekstra , 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 , A. Mantz , D. P. Marrone , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , L. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , S. S. Murray , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , J. Ruel , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , A. Saro , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , T. Schrabback , E. Shirokoff , J. Song , H. G. Spieler , S. A. Stanford , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , C. W. Stubbs , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , R. Williamson , O. Zahn , A. Zenteno

Lensing Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Clusters

Full-sky microwave surveys like the upcoming Planck satellite mission will detect of order 10^4 galaxy clusters through their thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. I investigate the properties of the gravitationally lensing subsample of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Matthias Bartelmann

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

Weak-lensing mass calibration of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect using APEX-SZ galaxy clusters

The use of galaxy clusters as precision cosmological probes relies on an accurate determination of their masses. However, inferring the relationship between cluster mass and observables from direct observations is difficult and prone to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-18 A. Nagarajan , F. Pacaud , M. Sommer , M. Klein , K. Basu , F. Bertoldi , A. T. Lee , P. A. R. Ade , A. N. Bender , D. Ferrusca , N. W. Halverson , C. Horellou , B. R. Johnson , J. Kennedy , R. Kneissl , K. M. Menten , C. L. Reichardt , C. Tucker , B. Westbrook

Cross-correlating the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and the Distribution of Galaxy Clusters

We present the analytical formulas, derived based on the halo model, to compute the cross-correlation between the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and the distribution of galaxy clusters. By binning the clusters according to their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Wenjuan Fang , Kenji Kadota , Masahiro Takada

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

The impact of halo concentration on the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect signal from massive galaxy clusters

The Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is sensitive to the pressure of ionized gas inside galaxy clusters, which is in turn controlled largely by the gravitational potential of the cluster. Changing the concentration parameter describing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Eric J. Baxter , Shivam Pandey , Susmita Adhikari , Weiguang Cui , Tae-hyeon Shin , Qingyang Li , Elena Rasia

Weak lensing analysis of SZ-selected clusters of galaxies from the SPT and Planck surveys

We present the weak lensing analysis of the Wide-Field Imager SZ Cluster of galaxy (WISCy) sample, a set of 12 clusters of galaxies selected for their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. After developing new and improved methods for background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Gruen , S. Seitz , F. Brimioulle , R. Kosyra , J. Koppenhoefer , C. -H. Lee , R. Bender , A. Riffeser , T. Eichner , T. Weidinger , M. Bierschenk

Probing galaxy evolution in massive clusters using ACT and DES: splashback as a cosmic clock

We measure the projected number density profiles of galaxies and the splashback feature in clusters selected by the Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect from the Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope (AdvACT) survey using galaxies observed by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-15 Susmita Adhikari , Tae-hyeon Shin , Bhuvnesh Jain , Matt Hilton , Eric Baxter , Chihway Chang , Risa H. Wechsler , Nick Battaglia , J. Richard Bond , Sebastian Bocquet , Joseph DeRose , Steve K. Choi , Mark Devlin , Jo Dunkley , August E. Evrard , Simone Ferraro , J. Colin Hill , John P. Hughes , Patricio A. Gallardo , Martine Lokken , Amanda MacInnis , Jeffrey McMahon , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Frederico Nati , Laura B. Newburgh , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Antonella Palmese , Bruce Partridge , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Maria Salatino , Alessandro Schillaci , Neelima Sehgal , Cristóbal Sifón , Chun-Hao To , Ed Wollack , Hao-Yi Wu , Zhilei Xu , Michel Aguena , Sahar Allam , Alexandra Amon , James Annis , Santiago Avila , David Bacon , Emmanuel Bertin , Sunayana Bhargava , David Brooks , David L. Burke , Aurelio C. Rosell , Matias Carrasco Kind , Jorge Carretero , Francisco Javier Castander , Ami Choi , Matteo Costanzi , Luiz N. da Costa , Juan De Vicente , Shantanu Desai , Thomas H. Diehl , Peter Doel , Spencer Everett , Ismael Ferrero , Agnès Ferté , Brenna Flaugher , Pablo Fosalba , Josh Frieman , Juan García-Bellido , Enrique Gaztanaga , Daniel Gruen , Robert A. Gruendl , Julia Gschwend , Gaston Gutierrez , Will G. Hartley , Samuel R. Hinton , Devon L. Hollowood , Klaus Honscheid , David J. James , Tesla Jeltema , Kyler Kuehn , Nikolay Kuropatkin , Ofer Lahav , Marcos Lima , Marcio A. G. Maia , Jennifer L. Marshall , Paul Martini , Peter Melchior , Felipe Menanteau , Ramon Miquel , Robert Morgan , Ricardo L. C. Ogando , Francisco Paz-Chinchón , Andrés Plazas Malagón , Eusebio Sanchez , Basilio Santiago , Vic Scarpine , Santiago Serrano , Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe , Mathew Smith , Marcelle Soares-Santos , Eric Suchyta , Molly E. C. Swanson , Tamas N. Varga , Reese D. Wilkinson , Yuanyuan Zhang , Jason E. Austermann , James A. Beall , Daniel T. Becker , Edward V. Denison , Shannon M. Duff , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Joel N. Ullom , Jeff Van Lanen , Leila R. Vale , DES Collaboration , ACT Collaboration

AMICO galaxy clusters in KiDS-DR3: cosmological constraints from large-scale stacked weak lensing profiles

Context. The large-scale mass distribution around dark matter haloes hosting galaxy clusters provides sensitive cosmological information. Aims. In this work, we make use of a large photometric galaxy cluster sample, constructed from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Carlo Giocoli , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Mauro Sereno , Alfonso Veropalumbo , Lorenzo Gigante , Matteo Maturi , Mario Radovich , Fabio Bellagamba , Mauro Roncarelli , Sandro Bardelli , Sofia Contarini , Giovanni Covone , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Lorenzo Ingoglia , Giorgio F. Lesci , Lorenza Nanni , Emanuella Puddu

Mass, shape and thermal properties of A1689 by a multi-wavelength X-ray, lensing and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich analysis

Knowledge of mass and concentration of galaxy clusters is crucial to understand their formation and evolution. Unbiased estimates require the understanding of the shape and orientation of the halo as well as its equilibrium status. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mauro Sereno , Stefano Ettori , Keiichi Umetsu , Alessandro Baldi

Mass and pressure constraints on galaxy clusters from interferometric SZ observations

Following on our previous study of an analytic parametric model to describe the baryonic and dark matter distributions in clusters of galaxies with spherical symmetry, we perform an SZ analysis of a set of simulated clusters and present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Olamaie , M. P. Hobson , K. J. B. Grainge

A comparative study of radio halo occurrence in SZ and X-ray selected galaxy cluster samples

We aim at an unbiased census of the radio halo population in galaxy clusters and test whether current low number counts of radio halos have arisen from selection biases. We construct near-complete samples based on X-ray and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Martin W. Sommer , Kaustuv Basu

Galaxy Clusters Selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the SPTpol 100-Square-Degree Survey

We present a catalog of galaxy cluster candidates detected in 100 square degrees surveyed with the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The catalog contains 89 candidates detected with a signal-to-noise ratio greater than 4.6. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 N. Huang , L. E. Bleem , B. Stalder , P. A. R. Ade , S. W. Allen , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , J. S. Avva , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , S. Bocquet , M. Brodwin , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , R. Citron , C. Corbett Moran , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , B. Floyd , J. Gallicchio , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , M. D. Gladders , S. Guns , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , G. Khullar , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Li , A. Lowitz , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , L. M. Mocanu , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. Noble , V. Novosad , S. Padin , S. Patil , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , A. Saro , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , K. Sharon , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko

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