A Search for Galaxy Clusters Using the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect

• Main Author: Runyan, Marcus Christian
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Lambda; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/2228/; https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/2228/1/mcr_thesis.pdf; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05292003-125239

This thesis describes the instrumental design and observations with the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver (ACBAR). We have used ACBAR to make very sensitive, high resolution maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and have searched within these maps for previously unknown massive cl...