The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: The Two-Season ACTPol Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Selected Cluster Catalog

• Main Authors: Hilton, Matt, Hasselfield, Matthew, Sifón, Cristóbal, Battaglia, Nicholas, Aiola, Simone, Bharadwaj, V., Bond, J. Richard, Choi, Steve K., Crichton, Devin, Datta, Rahul, Devlin, Mark J., Dunkley, Joanna, Dünner, Rolando, Gallardo, Patricio A., Gralla, Megan, Hincks, Adam D., Ho, Shuay-Pwu P., Hubmayr, Johannes, Huffenberger, Kevin M., Hughes, John P., Koopman, Brian J., Kosowsky, Arthur, Louis, Thibaut, Madhavacheril, Mathew S., Marriage, Tobias A., Maurin, Loïc, McMahon, Jeff, Miyatake, Hironao, Moodley, Kavilan, Naess, Sigurd, Nati, Federico, Newburgh, Laura, Niemack, Michael D., Oguri, Masamune, Page, Lyman A., Partridge, Bruce, Schmitt, Benjamin L., Sievers, Jon, Spergel, David N., Staggs, Suzanne T., Trac, Hy, van Engelen, Alexander, Vavagiakis, Eve M., Wollack, Edward J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2017
• Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics astro-ph.CO; FOS Physical sciences; South Pole; Lambda; South pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1709.05600; https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05600

We present a catalog of 182 galaxy clusters detected through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in a contiguous 987.5 deg$^{2}$ field. The clusters were detected as SZ decrements by applying a matched filter to 148 GHz maps that combine the original ACT equatorial...