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most citedGalaxy Clusters Discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey

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astro-ph.CO2023

SPT-SZ MCMF: An extension of the SPT-SZ catalog over the DES region

M. Klein, J. J. Mohr, S. Bocquet +104

We present an extension to a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) selected cluster catalog based on observations from the South Pole Telescope (SPT); this catalog extends to lower signa…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 17 cited

Mapping gas around massive galaxies: cross-correlation of DES Y3 galaxies and Compton--maps from SPT and Planck

J. Sánchez, Y. Omori, C. Chang +124

We cross-correlate positions of galaxies measured in data from the first three years of the Dark Energy Survey with Compton--maps generated using data from the South Pole Telesc…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 36 cited

Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck II: Cross-correlation measurements and cosmological constraints

C. Chang, Y. Omori, E. J. Baxter +163

Cross-correlations of galaxy positions and galaxy shears with maps of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are sensitive to the distribution of large-scal…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 23 cited

Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck I: Construction of CMB Lensing Maps and Modeling Choices

Y. Omori, E. J. Baxter, C. Chang +160

Joint analyses of cross-correlations between measurements of galaxy positions, galaxy lensing, and lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) offer powerful constraints on th…

astro-ph.CO2021

Combining Planck and SPT cluster catalogs: cosmological analysis and impact on Planck scaling relation calibration

L. Salvati, A. Saro, S. Bocquet +41

We provide the first combined cosmological analysis of South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck cluster catalogs. The aim is to provide an independent calibration for Planck scaling r…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 19 cited

Improving cosmological constraints from galaxy cluster number counts with CMB-cluster-lensing data: Results from the SPT-SZ survey and forecasts for the future

P. S. Chaubal, C. L. Reichardt, N. Gupta +40

We show the improvement to cosmological constraints from galaxy cluster surveys with the addition of CMB-cluster lensing data. We explore the cosmological implications of adding ma…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 34 cited

Shocks in the Stacked Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Profiles of Clusters II: Measurements from SPT-SZ + Planck Compton-y Map

D. Anbajagane, C. Chang, B. Jain +43

We search for the signature of cosmological shocks in stacked gas pressure profiles of galaxy clusters using data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). Specifically, we stack the la…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 65 cited

CMB/kSZ and Compton- Maps from 2500 square degrees of SPT-SZ and Planck Survey Data

L. E. Bleem, T. M. Crawford, B. Ansarinejad +37

We present component-separated maps of the primary cosmic microwave background/kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) amplitude and the thermal SZ Compton- parameter, created using d…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 55 cited

Optimal CMB Lensing Reconstruction and Parameter Estimation with SPTpol Data

M. Millea, C. M. Daley, T-L. Chou +66

We perform the first simultaneous Bayesian parameter inference and optimal reconstruction of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using 100 deg o…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 47 cited

A Demonstration of Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves with Delensing

BICEP/Keck, SPTpol Collaborations, : +139

We present a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, , derived from measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization -modes with "delensing," whereby the unce…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 70 cited

Searching for Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence with Polarization Data from SPTpol

F. Bianchini, W. L. K. Wu, P. A. R. Ade +69

We present a search for anisotropic cosmic birefringence in 500 deg of southern sky observed at 150 GHz with the SPTpol camera on the South Pole Telescope. We reconstruct a map…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 117 cited

An Improved Measurement of the Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies from the SPT-SZ + SPTpol Surveys

C. L. Reichardt, S. Patil, P. A. R. Ade +74

We report new measurements of millimeter-wave power spectra in the angular multipole range (angular scales ). By addi…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 90 cited

Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from the 500 deg SPTpol Lensing Power Spectrum

F. Bianchini, W. L. K. Wu, P. A. R. Ade +68

We present cosmological constraints based on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential power spectrum measurement from the recent 500 deg SPTpol survey, the most…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 100 cited

Measurements of B-mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

J. T. Sayre, C. L. Reichardt, J. W. Henning +62

We report a B-mode power spectrum measurement from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropy observations made using the SPTpol instrument on the South Pole Tel…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 207 cited

The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey

L. E. Bleem, S. Bocquet, B. Stalder +135

We describe the observations and resultant galaxy cluster catalog from the 2770 deg SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey (SPT-ECS). Clusters are identified via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 82 cited

Galaxy Clusters Selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the SPTpol 100-Square-Degree Survey

N. Huang, L. E. Bleem, B. Stalder +74

We present a catalog of galaxy cluster candidates detected in 100 square degrees surveyed with the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The catalog contains 89 candidates d…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 24 cited

A Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol

S. Raghunathan, S. Patil, E. Baxter +126

We report the first detection of gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters using only the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The lensing signal is obtained u…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 31 cited

Fractional Polarisation of Extragalactic Sources in the 500-square-degree SPTpol Survey

N. Gupta, C. L. Reichardt, P. A. R. Ade +77

We study the polarisation properties of extragalactic sources at 95 and 150 GHz in the SPTpol 500 deg survey. We estimate the polarised power by stacking maps at known source p…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 100 cited

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data

W. L. K. Wu, L. M. Mocanu, P. A. R. Ade +68

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using 500 deg of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The lens…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 14 cited

Consistency of cosmic microwave background temperature measurements in three frequency bands in the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey

L. M. Mocanu, T. M. Crawford, K. Aylor +42

We present an internal consistency test of South Pole Telescope (SPT) measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropy using three-band data from the SP…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 368 cited

Cluster Cosmology Constraints from the 2500 deg SPT-SZ Survey: Inclusion of Weak Gravitational Lensing Data from Magellan and the Hubble Space Telescope

S. Bocquet, J. P. Dietrich, T. Schrabback +77

We derive cosmological constraints using a galaxy cluster sample selected from the 2500~deg SPT-SZ survey. The sample spans the redshift range and contains 343 c…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 31 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-correlation between DES Y1 galaxy weak lensing and SPT+Planck CMB weak lensing

Y. Omori, E. Baxter, C. Chang +137

We cross-correlate galaxy weak lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) year-one (Y1) data with a cosmic microwave background (CMB) weak lensing map derived from Sout…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 52 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: tomographic cross-correlations between DES galaxies and CMB lensing from SPT+Planck

Y. Omori, T. Giannantonio, A. Porredon +137

We measure the cross-correlation between redMaGiC galaxies selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-1 data and gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 37 cited

Mass Calibration of Optically Selected DES clusters using a Measurement of CMB-Cluster Lensing with SPTpol Data

S. Raghunathan, S. Patil, E. Baxter +129

We use cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from the 500 deg SPTpol survey to measure the stacked lensing convergence of galaxy clusters from the Dark Energy Su…