A Detailed Study of the Most Relaxed SPT-selected Galaxy Clusters: Properties of the Cool Core and Central Galaxy

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: McDonald, M., Allen, S. W., Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., Mantz, A. B., Bayliss, M., Benson, B. A., Brodwin, M., Bulbul, E., Canning, R. E. A., Chiu, I., Forman, W. R., Garmire, G. P., Gupta, N., Khullar, G., Mohr, J. J., Reichardt, C. L., Schrabback, T.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; South Pole; Hubble; Gemini; South pole
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1493322; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1493322; https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf394

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of the four most relaxed clusters in the South Pole Telescope 2500 deg 2 survey, which lie at 0.55 < z < 0.75. This study, which utilizes new, deep data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, along with ground-based spectroscopy fr...