VizieR Online Data Catalog: Galaxy clusters discovered in the SPT-SZ survey (Bleem+, 2015)

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10m diameter telescope located at the National Science Foundation Amundsen-Scott South Pole station in Antarctica. From 2008 to 2011 the telescope was used to conduct the SPT-SZ survey, a survey of ~2500deg² of the southern sky at 95, 150, and 220GHz. The survey covers a contiguous region from 20h to 7h in right ascension (R.A.) and -65 to -40° in declination (see, e.g., Figure 1 in Story et al. 2013ApJ...779...86S) and was mapped to depths of approximately 40, 18, and 70uK-arcmin at 95, 150, and 220GHz respectively.

We use optical and in some cases NIR imaging (Blanco Telescope, Magellan/Baade, Magellan/Clay, Swope, MPG/ESO, New Technology Telescope, Spitzer, WISE) to confirm candidates as clusters and to obtain redshifts for confirmed systems (see section 4).

We have also used a variety of facilities to obtain spectroscopic observations of SPT clusters (including VLT/FORS2 & Gemini/GMOS-S).

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