Preprint typeset using L ATEX style emulateapj v. 10/09/06 GALAXY CLUSTERS DISCOVERED WITH A SUNYAEV-ZEL’DOVICH EFFECT SURVEY

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Blanco; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.244.2535; http://arxiv.org/pdf/0810.1578v2.pdf

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 is centered r...