Optical-SZE Scaling Relations for DES Optically Selected Clusters within the SPT-SZ Survey

• Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Main Authors: Saro, A., Bocquet, S., Mohr, J., Rozo, E., Benson, B. A., Dodelson, S., Rykoff, E. S., Bleem, L., Abbott, T. M. C., Abdalla, F. B., Allen, S., Annis, J., Benoit-Levy, A., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Capasso, R., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Chiu, I., Crawford, T. M., Cunha, C. E., D'Andrea, C. B., da Costa, L. N., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Evrard, A. E., Fausti Neto, A., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Gangkofner, C., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Grandis, S., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., Holzapfel, W. L., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lima, M., Marshall, J. L., McDonald, M., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Ogando, R., Plazas, A. A., Rapetti, D., Reichardt, C. L., Reil, K., Romer, A. K., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, R. C., Soares-Santos, M., Soergel, B., Strazzullo, V., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Vikram, V., Walker, A. R., Zenteno, A.
• Other Authors: Mcdonald, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: methods: observational; methods: statistical; galaxies: abundance; galaxies: clusters: general; large-scale structure of Universe; Lambda; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2962453; https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx594; https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/468/3/3347/3072179

We study the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) signature in South Pole Telescope (SPT) data for an ensemble of 719 optically identified galaxy clusters selected from 124.6 deg(2) of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) science verification data, detecting a clear stacked SZE signal down to richness lambd...