Cosmological Constraints from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected Clusters with X-Ray Observations in the First 178 deg2 of the South Pole Telescope Survey

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: Benson, B. A., de Haan, T., Dudley, J. P., Reichardt, C. L., Aird, K. A., Andersson, K., Armstrong, R., Ashby, Matthew L N, Bautz, M., Bayliss, Matthew, Bazin, G., Bleem, L. E., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H. M., Clocchiatti, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Desai, S., Dobbs, M. A., Foley, R. J., Forman, William R., George, E. M., Gladders, M. D., Gonzalez, A. H., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., High, F. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hoover, S., Hrubes, J. D., Jones, C., Joy, M., Keisler, R., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Liu, J., Lueker, M., Luong-Van, D., Mantz, A., Marrone, D. P., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Mehl, J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Montroy, T. E., Murray, S. S., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Plagge, T., Pryke, C., Rest, A., Ruel, Jonathan, Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Saro, A., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shaw, L., Shirokoff, E., Song, J., Spieler, H. G., Stalder, Brian A, Staniszewski, Z., Stark, Antony A., Story, K., Stubbs, Christopher William, Suhada, R., van Engelen, A., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Viklinin, Alexey A., Williamson, R., Zahn, O., Zenteno, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Astronomical Society 2013
• Subjects: Hubble; South Pole; Wilkinson; South pole
• Online Access: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11857775; https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/763/2/147

We use measurements from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) cluster survey in combination with X-ray measurements to constrain cosmological parameters. We present a statistical method that fits for the scaling relations of the SZ and X-ray cluster observables with mass while...