COSMOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS FROM SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH-SELECTED CLUSTERS WITH X-RAY OBSERVATIONS IN THE FIRST 178 deg[superscript 2] OF THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE SURVEY

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: Andersson, Karl, Bautz, Marshall W., McDonald, Michael A.
• Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2011
• Subjects: South Pole; Wilkinson; Hubble; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/94543

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...