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2019ApJ...871..188B - Astrophys. J., 871, 188-188 (2019/February-1)

High confidence optical confirmations among the high signal-to-noise Planck cluster candidates.

BOADA S., HUGHES J.P., MENANTEAU F., DOZE P., BARRIENTOS L.F. and INFANTE L.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report on newly identified galaxy clusters from the high signal-to-noise (>5σ) end of the second all-sky Planck Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) catalog (PSZ2). The clusters are identified in deep, optical imaging from the Kitt Peak National Observatory 4 m Mayall telescope taken between 2014 and 2017. Here we focus on the highest richness systems, and identify galaxy clusters through a combination of the maxBCG algorithm and visual image inspection. Galaxy clusters are considered to be confirmed if they are both rich and spatially coincident (<=6') with the reported PSZ2 position. Of the 85 fields containing unconfirmed PSZ2 candidates observed, we find 15 (17.6% of the observed sample) corresponding galaxy clusters (0.13 < z < 0.78), 12 of which are previously unrecognized as counterparts. To explain this low identification fraction, we consider three possible scenarios: that clusters are (1) mostly at low-z, (2) mostly at high-z, or (3) located in fields with high object density. None of these scenarios alone can account for the low purity of rich galaxy clusters among the high signal-to-noise PSZ2 unconfirmed candidates.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): cosmology: observations - galaxies: clusters: general

Simbad objects: 41

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