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

• Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Main Authors: Chiu, I., Dietrich, J. P., Mohr, J., Applegate, D. E., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bayliss, M. B., Bocquet, S., Carlstrom, J. E., Capasso, R., Desai, S., Gangkofner, C., Gonzalez, A. H., Gupta, N., Hennig, C., Hoekstra, H., von der Linden, A., Liu, J., McDonald, M., Reichardt, C. L., Saro, A., Schrabback, T., Strazzullo, V., Stubbs, C. W., Zenteno, A.
• Other Authors: Mcdonald, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Cluster; Cosmology; Gravitational lensing; Individual; Observations - large-scale structure of Universe; Weak - galaxie; Astronomy and Astrophysic; Space and Planetary Science; Navarro; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2962582; https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw190; 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...