Galaxy clusters discovered with a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect survey

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: Staniszewski, Z., Ade, Peter A. R., Aird, K. A., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H.-M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Halverson, N. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Joy, M., Keisler, R., Lanting, T. M., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Loehr, A., Lueker, M., 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., Ruhl, J. E., Schaffer, K. K., Shaw, L., Shirokoff, E., Spieler, H. G., Stalder, B., Stark, A. A., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Zahn, O., Zenteno, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Astronomical Society 2009
• Subjects: South Pole; Blanco; South pole
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/7254/; https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/701/1/32

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is conducting a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect survey over large areas of the southern sky, searching for massive galaxy clusters to high redshift. In this preliminary study, we focus on a 40 deg2 area targeted by the Blanco Cosmology Survey (BCS), which is center...