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SPT-CL J0205-5829: A z=1.32 EVOLVED MASSIVE GALAXY CLUSTER IN THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT SURVEY

Journal

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 763, Issue 2, Pages -

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/763/2/93

Keywords

early universe; galaxies: clusters: individual (SPT-CL J0205-5829); galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; large-scale structure of universe

Funding

  1. National Science Foundation [ANT-0638937]
  2. NSF Physics Frontier Center [PHY-0114422]
  3. Kavli Foundation
  4. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
  5. NSF [AST-1009012, AST-1009649, MRI-0723073]
  6. National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  7. Canada Research Chairs program
  8. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
  9. NASA [NAS 8-03060]
  10. Excellence Cluster Universe
  11. DFG [TR33]
  12. NASA by JPL/Caltech
  13. Clay Fellowship
  14. KICP Fellowship
  15. Pennsylvania State University [2834-MIT-SAO-4018]
  16. Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
  17. Smithsonian Institution
  18. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
  19. Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1009012] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
  20. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
  21. Division Of Physics [1125897] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
  22. Division Of Astronomical Sciences
  23. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1009649] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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The galaxy cluster SPT-CL J0205-5829 currently has the highest spectroscopically confirmed redshift, z = 1.322, in the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SPT-SZ) survey. XMM-Newton observations measure a core-excluded temperature of T-X = 8.7(-0.8)(+1.0) keV producing a mass estimate that is consistent with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-derived mass. The combined SZ and X-ray mass estimate of M-500 = (4.8+/-0.8) x 10(14)h(70)(-1) M-circle dot makes it the most massive known SZ-selected galaxy cluster at z > 1.2 and the second most massive at z > 1. Using optical and infrared observations, we find that the brightest galaxies in SPT-CL J0205-5829 are already well evolved by the time the universe was < 5 Gyr old, with stellar population ages greater than or similar to 3 Gyr, and low rates of star formation (< 0.5 M-circle dot yr(-1)). We find that, despite the high redshift and mass, the existence of SPT-CL J0205-5829 is not surprising given a flat Lambda CDM cosmology with Gaussian initial perturbations. The a priori chance of finding a cluster of similar rarity (or rarer) in a survey the size of the 2500 deg(2) SPT-SZ survey is 69%.

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