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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
Volume 191, Issue 2, Pages 340-351Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/191/2/340
Keywords
cosmic background radiation; cosmology: observations; galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: distances and redshifts; large-scale structure of universe
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- National Science Foundation [OISE-0530095]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NASA/XMM [NNX08AX55G, NNX08AX72G]
- NASA [92815, NNX08AX55G, 93145, NNX08AX72G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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We present a catalog of 105 rich and massive (M > 3 x 10(14) M-circle dot) optically selected clusters of galaxies extracted from 70 deg(2) of public archival griz imaging from the Blanco 4 m telescope acquired over 45 nights between 2005 and 2007. We use the clusters' optically derived properties to estimate photometric redshifts, optical luminosities, richness, and masses. We complement the optical measurements with archival XMM-Newton and ROSAT X-ray data which provide additional luminosity and mass constraints on a modest fraction of the cluster sample. Two of our clusters show clear evidence for central lensing arcs; one of these has a spectacular large diameter, nearly complete Einstein Ring surrounding the brightest cluster galaxy. A strong motivation for this study is to identify the massive clusters that are expected to display prominent signals from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) and therefore be detected in the wide-area millimeter-band surveys being conducted by both the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the South Pole Telescope. The optical sample presented here will be useful for verifying new SZE cluster candidates from these surveys, for testing the cluster selection function, and for stacking analyses of the SZE data.
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