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SPT-GMOS: A gemini/GMOS-south spectroscopic survey of galaxy clusters in the SPT-SZ survey
MB Bayliss, J Ruel, CW Stubbs, SW Allen, DE Applegate, MLN Ashby, M Bautz, BA Benson, LE Bleem, S Bocquet, M Brodwin, R Capasso, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, I Chiu, HM Cho, A Clocchiatti, TM Crawford, AT Crites, T De Haan Show all
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | IOP Publishing Ltd | Published : 2016
Abstract
We present the results of SPT-GMOS, a spectroscopic survey with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South. The targets of SPT-GMOS are galaxy clusters identified in the SPT-SZ survey, a millimeter-wave survey of 2500 deg2 of the southern sky using the South Pole Telescope (SPT). Multi-object spectroscopic observations of 62 SPT-selected galaxy clusters were performed between 2011 January and 2015 December, yielding spectra with radial velocity measurements for 2595 sources. We identify 2243 of these sources as galaxies, and 352 as stars. Of the galaxies, we identify 1579 as members of SPT-SZ galaxy clusters. The primary goal of these observations was to obtain spectra of cl..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the anonymous referee for helpful and thoughtful feedback that improved this paper. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation through Grant AST-1009012. The South Pole Telescope is supported by the National Science Foundation through grant PLR-1248097. Partial support was also provided by the NSF Physics Frontier Center grant PHY-1125897 to the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Kavli Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant GBMF 947. Galaxy cluster research at SAO is supported in part by NSF grants AST-1009649 and MRI-0723073. R.J.F. gratefully acknowledges support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Argonne National Laboratory work was supported under U.S. Department of Energy contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. BB is supported by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy. Support for program #HST-GO-13412.004-A was provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555.The data presented here were taken with the Gemini Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under a cooperative agreement with the NSF on behalf of the Gemini partnership: The United States, Canada, Chile, Australia, Brazil, and Argentina. Gemini data used in this work was taken as a part of the following Gemini programs: GS-2011A-C-03, GS-2011A-C-04, GS-2011B-C-06, GS-2011B-C-33, GS-2012A-Q-04, GS-2012A-Q-37, GS-2012B-Q-29, GS-2012B-Q-59, GS-2013A-Q-05, GS-2013A-Q-45, GS-2013B-Q-25, GS-2013B-Q-72, GS-2014B-Q-31, and GS-2014B-Q-64. Additional supporting data were obtained with the 6.5m Magellan Telescopes, which are located at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. This work is also partly based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained from the Data Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555; these observations are associated with program #13412.