Optical redshift and richness estimates for galaxy clusters selected with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from 2008 South Pole telescope observations

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: High, F. W., Stalder, B., Song, J., Ade, Peter A. R., Aird, K. A., Allam, S. S., Armstrong, R., Barkhouse, W. A., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bhattacharya, S., Bleem, L. E., Brodwin, M., Buckley-Geer, E. J., Carlstrom, J. E., Challis, P., Chang, C. L., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Desai, S., Dobbs, M. A., Dudley, J. P., Foley, R. J., George, E. M., Gladders, M., Halverson, N. W., Hamuy, M., Hansen, S. M., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Joy, M., Keisler, R., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Lin, H., Lin, Y. T., Loehr, A., Lueker, M., Marrone, D., McMahon, J. J., Mehl, J., Meyer, S. S., Mohr, J. J., Montroy, T. E., Morell, N., Ngeow, C. C., Padin, S., Plagge, T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOPScience 2010
• Subjects: QB Astronomy; South Pole; Blanco; South pole
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/33737/; https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/723/2/1736

We present redshifts and optical richness properties of 21 galaxy clusters uniformly selected by their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signature. These clusters, plus an additional, unconfirmed candidate, were detected in a 178 deg(2) area surveyed by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) in 2008. Using griz...