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<ri:Resource created="2014-09-04T07:14:58Z" status="active" updated="2025-05-19T09:50:00Z" version="1.2" xmlns:cs="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/ConeSearch/v1.0" xmlns:ri="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/RegistryInterface/v1.0" xmlns:vr="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0" xmlns:vs="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/ConeSearch/v1.0 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/ConeSearch.xsd http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VOResource.xsd http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VODataService.xsd" xsi:type="vs:CatalogService"><title>Galaxy clusters discovered in the SPT survey</title><shortName>J/ApJ/763/127</shortName><identifier>ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/763/127</identifier><altIdentifier>doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17630127</altIdentifier><curation><publisher ivo-id="ivo://CDS">CDS</publisher><creator><name>Reichardt C.L.</name></creator><creator><name>Stalder B.</name></creator><creator><name>Bleem L.E.</name></creator><creator><name>Montroy T.E.</name></creator><creator><name>Aird K.A.,Andersson K.</name></creator><creator><name>Armstrong R.</name></creator><creator><name>Ashby M.L.N.</name></creator><creator><name>Bautz M.</name></creator><creator><name>Bayliss M.</name></creator><creator><name>Bazin G.,Benson B.A.</name></creator><creator><name>Brodwin M.</name></creator><creator><name>Carlstrom J.E.</name></creator><creator><name>Chang C.L.</name></creator><creator><name>Cho H.M.,Clocchiatti A.</name></creator><creator><name>Crawford T.M.</name></creator><creator><name>Crites A.T.</name></creator><creator><name>de Haan T.</name></creator><creator><name>Desai S.,Dobbs M.A.</name></creator><creator><name>Dudley J.P.</name></creator><creator><name>Foley R.J.</name></creator><creator><name>Forman W.R.</name></creator><creator><name>George E.M.,Gladders M.D.</name></creator><creator><name>Gonzalez A.H.</name></creator><creator><name>Halverson N.W.</name></creator><creator><name>Harrington N.L.</name></creator><creator><name>High F.W.,Holder G.P.</name></creator><creator><name>Holzapfel W.L.</name></creator><creator><name>Hoover S.</name></creator><creator><name>Hrubes J.D.</name></creator><creator><name>Jones C.</name></creator><creator><name>Joy M.,Keisler R.</name></creator><creator><name>Knox L.</name></creator><creator><name>Lee A.T.</name></creator><creator><name>Leitch E.M.</name></creator><creator><name>Liu J.</name></creator><creator><name>Lueker M.,Luong-Van D.</name></creator><creator><name>Mantz A.</name></creator><creator><name>Marrone D.P.</name></creator><creator><name>McDonald M.</name></creator><creator><name>McMahon J.J.</name></creator><creator><name>Mehl J.,Meyer S.S.</name></creator><creator><name>Mocanu L.</name></creator><creator><name>Mohr J.J.</name></creator><creator><name>Murray S.S.</name></creator><creator><name>Natoli T.</name></creator><creator><name>Padin S.,Plagge T.</name></creator><creator><name>Pryke C.</name></creator><creator><name>Rest A.</name></creator><creator><name>Ruel J.</name></creator><creator><name>Ruhl J.E.</name></creator><creator><name>Saliwanchik B.R.,Saro A.</name></creator><creator><name>Sayre J.T.</name></creator><creator><name>Schaffer K.K.</name></creator><creator><name>Shaw L.</name></creator><creator><name>Shirokoff E.</name></creator><creator><name>Song J.,Spieler H.G.</name></creator><creator><name>Staniszewski Z.</name></creator><creator><name>Stark A.A.</name></creator><creator><name>Story K.</name></creator><creator><name>Stubbs C.W.,Suhada R.</name></creator><creator><name>van Engelen A.</name></creator><creator><name>Vanderlinde K.</name></creator><creator><name>Vieira J.D.</name></creator><creator><name>Vikhlinin A.,Williamson R.</name></creator><creator><name>Zahn O.</name></creator><creator><name>Zenteno A.</name></creator><date role="Updated">2017-12-18T07:57:32Z</date><date role="Created">2014-09-04T07:14:58Z</date><contact><name>CDS support team</name><address>CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France</address><email>cds-question@unistra.fr</email></contact></curation><content><subject>galaxy-clusters</subject><subject>redshifted</subject><subject>x-ray-sources</subject><subject>millimeter-astronomy</subject><subject>submillimeter-astronomy</subject><description>We present a catalog of galaxy cluster candidates, selected through their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signature in the first 720deg^2^ of the South Pole Telescope (SPT) survey. This area was mapped with the SPT in the 2008 and 2009 austral winters to a depth of ~18{mu}K_CMB_-arcmin at 150GHz; 550deg^2^ of it was also mapped to ~44{mu}K_CMB_-arcmin at 95GHz. Based on optical imaging of all 224 candidates and near-infrared imaging of the majority of candidates, we have found optical and/or infrared counterparts for 158, which we then classify as confirmed galaxy clusters. Of these 158 clusters, 135 were first identified as clusters in SPT data, including 117 new discoveries reported in this work. This catalog triples the number of confirmed galaxy clusters discovered through the SZ effect. We report photometrically derived (and in some cases spectroscopic) redshifts for confirmed clusters and redshift lower limits for the remaining candidates. The catalog extends to high redshift with a median redshift of z=0.55 and maximum confirmed redshift of z=1.37. Forty-five of the clusters have counterparts in the ROSAT bright or faint source catalogs from which we estimate X-ray fluxes. Based on simulations, we expect the catalog to be nearly 100% complete above M_500_{approx}5x10^14^M_{sun}_h^-1^_70_ at z&gt;~0.6. There are 121 candidates detected at signal-to-noise ratio greater than five, at which the catalog purity is measured to be 95%.</description><source format="bibcode">2013ApJ...763..127R</source><referenceURL>https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/763/127</referenceURL><type>Catalog</type><contentLevel>Research</contentLevel><relationship><relationshipType>IsServedBy</relationshipType><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/TAP">TAP VizieR generic service</relatedResource></relationship><relationship><relationshipType>IsServedBy</relationshipType><relatedResource>Conesearch service</relatedResource></relationship><relationship><relationshipType>related-to</relationshipType><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/88">VIII/88 : Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (Planck, 2011)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/76">VIII/76 : Leiden/Argentine/Bonn (LAB) Survey of Galactic HI (Kalberla+ 2005)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/29">IX/29 : ROSAT All-Sky Survey Faint Source Catalog (Voges+ 2000)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/10">IX/10 : ROSAT All-Sky Bright Source Catalogue (1RXS) (Voges+ 1999)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/110">VII/110 : Rich Clusters of Galaxies (Abell+ 1989)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/28">VII/28 : Southern Groups and Clusters of Galaxies (Duus, Newell 1977)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/761/22">J/ApJ/761/22 : NIR gal. cluster candidates in the SPT survey (Song+, 2012)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/742/48">J/ApJ/742/48 : Blanco survey of BCS J2352-5452 lens (Buckley-Geer+, 2011)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/534/A109">J/A+A/534/A109 : MCXC Meta-Cat. 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