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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT): Beam profiles and first Sz cluster maps

Hincks, A. D., Acquaviva, V., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Aguirre, P., Amiri, M., Appel, J. W., Barrientos, L. F., Battistelli, E. S., Bond, J. R., Brown, B., Burger, B., Chervenak, J., Das, S., Devlin, M. J., Dicker, S. R., Doriese, W. B., Dunkley, J., Dünner, R., Essinger-Hileman, T., Fisher, R. P., Fowler, J. W., Hajian, A., Halpern, M., Hasselfield, M., Hernández-Monteagudo, C., Hilton, G. C., Hilton, M., Hlozek, R., Huffenberger, K. M., Hughes, D. H., Hughes, J. P., Infante, L., Irwin, K. D., Jimenez, R., Juin, J. B., Kaul, M., Klein, J., Kosowsky, A., Lau, J. M., Limon, M., Lin, Y.-T., Lupton, R. H., Marriage, T. A., Marsden, D., Martocci, K., Mauskopf, Philip Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-5516, Menanteau, F., Moodley, K., Moseley, H., Netterfield, C. B., Niemack, M. D., Nolta, M. R., Page, L. A., Parker, L., Partridge, B., Quintana, H., Reid, B., Sehgal, N., Sievers, J., Spergel, D. N., Staggs, S. T., Stryzak, O., Swetz, D. S., Switzer, E. R., Thornton, R., Trac, H., Tucker, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918, Verde, L., Warne, R., Wilson, G., Wollack, E. and Zhao, Y. 2010. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT): Beam profiles and first Sz cluster maps. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 191 (2) , 423. 10.1088/0067-0049/191/2/423

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Abstract

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is currently observing the cosmic microwave background with arcminute resolution at 148 GHz, 218 GHz, and 277 GHz. In this paper, we present ACT's first results. Data have been analyzed using a maximum-likelihood map-making method which uses B-splines to model and remove the atmospheric signal. It has been used to make high-precision beam maps from which we determine the experiment's window functions. This beam information directly impacts all subsequent analyses of the data. We also used the method to map a sample of galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and show five clusters previously detected with X-ray or SZ observations. We provide integrated Compton-y measurements for each cluster. Of particular interest is our detection of the z = 0.44 component of A3128 and our current non-detection of the low-redshift part, providing strong evidence that the further cluster is more massive as suggested by X-ray measurements. This is a compelling example of the redshift-independent mass selection of the SZ effect.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Uncontrolled Keywords: cosmic background radiation; cosmology: observations; galaxies: clusters: general; methods: data analysis
Publisher: IOP Science
ISSN: 0067-0049
Last Modified: 17 Oct 2022 10:13
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/7361

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