Detection of enhancement in number densities of background galaxies due to magnification by massive galaxy clusters

• Main Authors: I. Chiu, J. P. Dietrich, J. Mohr, D. E. Applegate, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, M. B. Bayliss, S. Bocquet, J. E. Carlstrom, R. Capasso, S. Desai, C. Gangkofner, A. H. Gonzalez, N. Gupta, C. Hennig, H. Hoekstra, A. von der Linden, J. Liu, M. McDonald, C. L. Reichardt, A. Saro, T. Schrabback, STRAZZULLO, VERONICA, C. W. Stubbs, A. Zenteno
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Navarro; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/27412; https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw190; http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01745v2; https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/457/3/3050/2588975

We present a detection of the enhancement in the number densities of background galaxies induced from lensing magnification and use it to test the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE-) inferred masses in a sample of 19 galaxy clusters with median redshift z ≃ 0.42 selected from the South Pole Telesc...