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Improved Constraints on Mergers with SZ, Hydrodynamical simulations, Optical, and X-ray (ICM-SHOX). Paper II: Galaxy cluster sample overview
Emily M. Silich, Elena Bellomi, Jack Sayers +12
Galaxy cluster mergers are representative of a wide range of physics, making them an excellent probe of the properties of dark matter and the ionized plasma of the intracluster med…
ICM-SHOX. Paper I: Methodology overview and discovery of a gas--dark matter velocity decoupling in the MACS J0018.5+1626 merger
Emily M. Silich, Elena Bellomi, Jack Sayers +12
Galaxy cluster mergers are rich sources of information to test cluster astrophysics and cosmology. However, cluster mergers produce complex projected signals that are difficult to…
The Evolution and Mass Dependence of Galaxy Cluster Pressure Profiles at 0.05 0.60 and M M
Jack Sayers, Adam B. Mantz, Elena Rasia +5
We have combined X-ray observations from Chandra with Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect data from Planck and Bolocam to measure intra-cluster medium pressure profiles from 0.03R$_{500…
The Lack of Non-Thermal Motions in Galaxy Cluster Cores
Jack Sayers, Mauro Sereno, Stefano Ettori +5
We report the non-thermal pressure fraction (Pnt/Ptot) obtained from a three-dimensional triaxial analysis of 16 galaxy clusters in the CLASH sample using gravitational lensing (GL…
Measuring using X-ray and SZ effect observations of dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters
Jenny T. Wan, Adam B. Mantz, Jack Sayers +3
We use a sample of 14 massive, dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters to constrain the Hubble Constant, , by combining X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signals measured w…
"SZ spectroscopy" in the coming decade: Galaxy cluster cosmology and astrophysics in the submillimeter
Kaustuv Basu, Jens Erler, Jens Chluba +30
Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effects were first proposed in the 1970s as tools to identify the X-ray emitting hot gas inside massive clusters of galaxies and obtain their velocities rela…
Imaging the Thermal and Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Signals in a Sample of Ten Massive Galaxy Clusters: Constraints on Internal Velocity Structures and Bulk Velocities
Jack Sayers, Alfredo Montaña, Tony Mroczkowski +10
We have imaged the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signals at 140 and 270 GHz towards ten galaxy clusters with Bolocam and AzTEC/ASTE. We also used Planck data to constrain the sign…
Search for Low-Mass Dark Matter with CDMSlite Using a Profile Likelihood Fit
SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, T. Aralis +100
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) searches for interactions between dark matter particles and germanium nuclei in cryogenic detectors.…
Thermodynamic Profiles of Galaxy Clusters from a Joint X-ray/SZ Analysis
Jennifer A. Shitanishi, Elena Pierpaoli, Jack Sayers +6
We jointly analyze Bolocam Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect and Chandra X-ray data for a set of 45 clusters to derive gas density and temperature profiles without using spectroscopic…
Low-Mass Dark Matter Search with CDMSlite
SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson +105
The SuperCDMS experiment is designed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) that may constitute the dark matter in our Galaxy. During its operation at the…
Constraints on the Mass, Concentration, and Nonthermal Pressure Support of Six CLASH Clusters from a Joint Analysis of X-ray, SZ, and Lensing Data
Seth R. Siegel, Jack Sayers, Andisheh Mahdavi +17
We present a joint analysis of Chandra X-ray observations, Bolocam thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect observations, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) strong lensing data, and HST an…
Galaxy Cluster Pressure Profiles as Determined by Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect Observations with MUSTANG and Bolocam II: Joint Analysis of Fourteen Clusters
Charles Romero, Brian Mason, Jack Sayers +13
We present pressure profiles of galaxy clusters determined from high resolution Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect observations of fourteen clusters, which span the redshift range $ 0.…
A Comparison and Joint Analysis of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Measurements from Planck and Bolocam for a set of 47 Massive Galaxy Clusters
Jack Sayers, Sunil R. Golwala, Adam B. Mantz +7
We measure the SZ signal toward a set of 47 clusters with a median mass of M and a median redshift of 0.40 using data from Planck and the ground-base…
The Morphologies and Alignments of Gas, Mass, and the Central Galaxies of CLASH Clusters of Galaxies
Megan Donahue, Stefano Ettori, Elena Rasia +10
Morphology is often used to infer the state of relaxation of galaxy clusters. The regularity, symmetry, and degree to which a cluster is centrally concentrated inform quantitative…
Peculiar Velocity Constraints from Five-Band SZ Effect Measurements Towards RX J1347.5-1145 with MUSIC and Bolocam from the CSO
Jack Sayers, Michael Zemcov, Jason Glenn +25
We present Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect measurements from wide-field images towards the galaxy cluster RX J1347.5-1145 obtained from the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory with th…
WIMP-Search Results from the Second CDMSlite Run
SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson +87
The CDMS low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) uses cryogenic germanium detectors operated at a relatively high bias voltage to amplify the phonon signal in the search for…
Dark matter effective field theory scattering in direct detection experiments
K. Schneck, B. Cabrera, D. G. Cerdeno +84
We examine the consequences of the effective field theory (EFT) of dark matter-nucleon scattering for current and proposed direct detection experiments. Exclusion limits on EFT cou…
BICEP2 / Keck Array V: Measurements of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales and 150 GHz by the Keck Array
The BICEP2, Keck Array Collaborations, : +59
The Keck Array is a system of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeters, each similar to the BICEP2 experiment. In this paper we report results from the 2012 and 2013 observin…
A Joint Analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck Data
BICEP2/Keck, Planck Collaborations, : +276
We report the results of a joint analysis of data from BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck. BICEP2 and Keck Array have observed the same approximately 400 deg patch of sky centered on…
Galaxy Cluster Pressure Profiles as Determined by Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect Observations with MUSTANG and Bolocam I: Joint Analysis Technique
Charles Romero, Brian S. Mason, Jack Sayers +11
We present a technique to constrain galaxy cluster pressure profiles by jointly fitting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) data obtained with MUSTANG and Bolocam for the clusters Abel…
Measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in MACS J0647.7+7015 and MACS J1206.2-0847 at High Angular Resolution with MUSTANG
Alexander H. Young, Tony Mroczkowski, Charles Romero +18
We present high resolution (9) imaging of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) toward two massive galaxy clusters, MACS J0647.7+7015 () and MACS J1206.2-0…
Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations between Bolocam Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and Chandra X-ray Measurements
N. G. Czakon, J. Sayers, A. Mantz +11
We present scaling relations between the integrated Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) signal, , its X-ray analogue, , and total mass…
BICEP2 II: Experiment and Three-Year Data Set
BICEP2 Collaboration, P. A. R Ade, R. W. Aikin +49
We report on the design and performance of the BICEP2 instrument and on its three-year data set. BICEP2 was designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background…
BICEP2 I: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales
P. A. R Ade, R. W. Aikin, D. Barkats +44
(abridged for arXiv) We report results from the BICEP2 experiment, a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter specifically designed to search for the signal of inflationary gr…