Galaxy Clusters Discovered with a Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect Survey

• Main Authors: 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
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Blanco; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1079.6326; http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/richer/a520/stan.pdf

ABSTRACT 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 deg 2 area targeted by the Blanco Cosmology Survey (BCS), which...