Galaxy clusters selected with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from 2008 south pole telescope observations

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: Vanderlinde, K., Crawford, T. M., de Haan, T., Dudley, J. P., Shaw, L., Ade, Peter A. R., Aird, K. A., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Crites, A. T., Desai, S., Dobbs, M. A., Foley, R. J., George, E. M., Gladders, M. D., Hall, N. R., Halverson, N. W., High, F. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Joy, M., Keisler, R., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Loehr, A., Lueker, M., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Mehl, J., Meyer, S. S., Mohr, J. J., Montroy, T. E., Ngeow, C.-C., Padin, S., Plagge, T., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Rest, A., Ruel, J., Ruhl, J. E., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Song, J., Spieler, H. G., Stalder, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Science 2010
• Subjects: QB Astronomy; South Pole; Blanco; South pole
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/15342/; https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/722/2/1180

We present a detection-significance-limited catalog of 21 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected galaxy clusters. These clusters, along with one unconfirmed candidate, were identified in 178 deg2 of sky surveyed in 2008 by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) to a depth of 18 μK arcmin at 150 GHz. Optical imagi...