Constraints on the Richness-Mass Relation and the Optical-SZE Positional Offset Distribution for SZE-Selected Clusters

• Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Main Authors: Saro, A., Bocquet, S., Rozo, E., Benson, B.A., Mohr, J., Rykoff, E.S., Soares-Santos, M., Bleem, L., Dodelson, S., Melchior, P., Sobreira, F., Upadhyay, V., Weller, J., Abbott, T., Abdalla, F.B., Allam, S., Armstrong, R., Banerji, M., Bauer, A.H., Bayliss, M., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bernstein, G.M., Bertin, E., Brodwin, M., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D.L., Carlstrom, J.E., Capasso, R., Capozzi, D., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Chiu, I., Covarrubias, R., Crawford, T.M., Crocce, M., D'Andrea, C.B., da Costa, L.N., DePoy, D.L., Desai, S., de Haan, T., Diehl, H.T., Dietrich, J.P., Doel, P., Cunha, C.E., Eifler, T.F., Evrard, A.E., Fausti Neto, A., Fernandez, E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Gangkofner, C., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R.A., Gupta, N., Hennig, C., Holzapfel, W.L., Honscheid, K., Jain, B., James, D., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Li, T.S., Lin, H., Maia, M.A.G., March, M., Marshall, J.L., Martini, Paul, McDonald, M., Miller, C.J., Miquel, R., Nord, B., Ogando, R., Plazas, A.A., Reichardt, C.L., Romer, A.K., Roodman, A., Sako, M., Sanchez, E., Schubnell, M., Sevilla, I., Smith, R.C., Stalder, B., Stark, A.A., Strazzullo, V., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C., Tarle, G., Thaler, J., Thomas, D., Tucker, D., Vikram, V., von der Linden, A., Walker, A.R., Wechsler, R.H., Wester, W., Zenteno, A., Ziegler, K.E.
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Astrophysics and Astronomy; South Pole; Lambda; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2141; http://cds.cern.ch/record/2028348

We cross-match galaxy cluster candidates selected via their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) signatures in 129.1 deg$^2$ of the South Pole Telescope 2500d SPT-SZ survey with optically identified clusters selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) science verification data. We identify 25 cluster...