THE ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE: SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH-SELECTED GALAXY CLUSTERS AT 148 GHz IN THE 2008 SURVEY

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作者
Marriage, Tobias A. [1 ]
Acquaviva, Viviana [1 ,2 ]
Ade, Peter A. R. [3 ]
Aguirre, Paula [4 ]
Amiri, Mandana [5 ]
Appel, John William [6 ]
Felipe Barrientos, L. [4 ]
Battistelli, Elia S. [5 ,7 ]
Bond, J. Richard [8 ]
Brown, Ben [9 ]
Burger, Bryce [5 ]
Chervenak, Jay [10 ]
Das, Sudeep [1 ,6 ,11 ,12 ]
Devlin, Mark J. [13 ]
Dicker, Simon R. [13 ]
Doriese, W. Bertrand [14 ]
Dunkley, Joanna [1 ,6 ,15 ]
Duenner, Rolando [4 ]
Essinger-Hileman, Thomas [6 ]
Fisher, Ryan P. [6 ]
Fowler, Joseph W. [6 ,14 ]
Hajian, Amir [1 ,6 ,8 ]
Halpern, Mark [5 ]
Hasselfield, Matthew [5 ]
Hernandez-Monteagudo, Carlos [16 ]
Hilton, Gene C. [14 ]
Hilton, Matt [17 ,18 ]
Hincks, Adam D. [6 ]
Hlozek, Renee [15 ]
Huffenberger, Kevin M. [19 ]
Handel Hughes, David [20 ]
Hughes, John P. [2 ]
Infante, Leopoldo [4 ]
Irwin, Kent D. [14 ]
Baptiste Juin, Jean [4 ]
Kaul, Madhuri [13 ]
Klein, Jeff [13 ]
Kosowsky, Arthur [9 ]
Lau, Judy M. [6 ,21 ,22 ]
Limon, Michele [6 ,13 ,23 ]
Lin, Yen-Ting [1 ,4 ,24 ]
Lupton, Robert H. [1 ]
Marsden, Danica [13 ]
Martocci, Krista [6 ,25 ]
Mauskopf, Phil [3 ]
Menanteau, Felipe [2 ]
Moodley, Kavilan [17 ,18 ]
Moseley, Harvey [10 ]
Netterfield, Calvin B. [26 ]
Niemack, Michael D. [6 ,14 ]
机构
[1] Princeton Univ, Dept Astrophys Sci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[2] Rutgers State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA
[3] Cardiff Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales
[4] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Fac Fis, Dept Astron & Astrofis, Santiago 22, Chile
[5] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
[6] Princeton Univ, Joseph Henry Labs Phys, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[7] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dept Phys, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[8] Univ Toronto, Canadian Inst Theoret Astrophys, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada
[9] Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Phys & Astron, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[10] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[11] Univ Calif Berkeley, LBL, Berkeley Ctr Cosmol Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[12] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[13] Univ Penn, Dept Phys & Astron, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[14] NIST Quantum Devices Grp, Boulder, CO 80305 USA
[15] Univ Oxford, Dept Astrophys, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[16] Max Planck Inst Astrophys, D-85741 Garching, Germany
[17] Univ KwaZulu Natal, Sch Math Sci, Astrophys & Cosmol Res Unit, ZA-4041 Durban, South Africa
[18] Ctr High Performance Comp, Rosebank, Cape Town, South Africa
[19] Univ Miami, Dept Phys, Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA
[20] INAOE, Puebla, Mexico
[21] Stanford Univ, Kavli Inst Particle Astrophys & Cosmol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[22] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[23] Columbia Univ, Columbia Astrophys Lab, New York, NY 10027 USA
[24] Univ Tokyo, Inst Phys & Math Universe, Chiba 2778568, Japan
[25] Kavli Inst Cosmol Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[26] Univ Toronto, Dept Phys, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
[27] Haverford Coll, Dept Phys & Astron, Haverford, PA 19041 USA
[28] Univ Barcelona, ICC, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
[29] W Chester Univ Penn, Dept Phys, W Chester, PA 19383 USA
[30] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Dept Phys, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[31] Harvard Univ, Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[32] Univ Massachusetts, Dept Astron, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
来源
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2011年 / 737卷 / 02期
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大创新基金会;
关键词
cosmic background radiation; cosmology: observations; galaxies: clusters: general; radio continuum: general; surveys; BACKGROUND POWER SPECTRUM; HUBBLE-SPACE-TELESCOPE; COSMIC DISTANCE SCALE; X-RAY MEASUREMENTS; LENSING MEASUREMENTS; PRESSURE PROFILE; DARK ENERGY; CONSTRAINTS; REDSHIFT; CONSTANT;
D O I
10.1088/0004-637X/737/2/61
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We report on 23 clusters detected blindly as Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) decrements in a 148 GHz, 455 deg(2) map of the southern sky made with data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope 2008 observing season. All SZ detections announced in this work have confirmed optical counterparts. Ten of the clusters are new discoveries. One newly discovered cluster, ACT-CL J0102-4915, with a redshift of 0.75 ( photometric), has an SZ decrement comparable to the most massive systems at lower redshifts. Simulations of the cluster recovery method reproduce the sample purity measured by optical follow-up. In particular, for clusters detected with a signal-to-noise ratio greater than six, simulations are consistent with optical follow-up that demonstrated this subsample is 100% pure. The simulations further imply that the total sample is 80% complete for clusters with mass in excess of 6 x 10(14) solar masses referenced to the cluster volume characterized by 500 times the critical density. The Compton y-X-ray luminosity mass comparison for the 11 best-detected clusters visually agrees with both self-similar and non-adiabatic, simulation-derived scaling laws.
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