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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Dynamical Masses and Scaling Relations for a Sample of Massive Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Selected Galaxy Clusters
Cristobal Sifon ; Felipe Menanteau ; Matthew Hasselfield ; Tobias A. Marriage ; John P. Hughes ; L. Felipe Barrientos ; Jorge Gonzalez ; Leopoldo Infante ; Graeme E. Addison ; Andrew J. Baker ; Nick Battaglia ; J. Richard Bond ; Sudeep Das ; Mark J. Devlin ; Joanna Dunkley ; Rolando Dunner ; Megan B. Gralla ; Amir Hajian ; Matt Hilton ; Adam D. Hincks ; Arthur B. Kosowsky ; Danica Marsden ; Kavilan Moodley ; Michael D. Niemack ; Michael R. Nolta ; Lyman A. Page ; Bruce Partridge ; Erik D. Reese ; Neelima Sehgal ; Jon Sievers ; David N. Spergel ; Suzanne T. Staggs ; Robert J. Thornton ; Hy Trac ; Edward Wollack ;
Date:	4 Jan 2012
Abstract:	We present the first dynamical mass estimates and scaling relations for a sample of Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect (SZE) selected galaxy clusters. The sample consists of 16 massive clusters detected with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) over a 455 sq deg. area of the southern sky. Deep multi-object spectroscopic observations were taken to secure intermediate-resolution (R~700-800) spectra and redshifts for ~60 member galaxies on average per cluster. The dynamical masses M_200c of the clusters have been calculated using simulation-based scaling relations between velocity dispersion and mass. The sample has a median redshift z=0.50 and a median mass M_200c=11x10^14 Msun/h_70 with a lower limit M_200c ~ 5x10^14 Msun/h_70, consistent with the expectations for the ACT southern sky survey. These masses are compared to the ACT SZE properties of the sample, specifically, the central SZE amplitude y0, the Compton signal within a 0.5’ pixel y_0.5’, and the integrated Compton signal Y_200c, which we use to derive SZE-Mass scaling relations. All SZE estimators correlate with dynamical mass with low intrinsic scatter (11%-16%), in agreement with numerical simulations. The influence of dynamically disturbed clusters on these scaling relations is also considered. Using the 3-dimensional information available, we divide the sample into relaxed and disturbed clusters and find that ~50% of the clusters are disturbed. We conclude that disturbed systems do not significantly bias the scaling relations but might modestly boost their scatter.
Source:	arXiv, 1201.0991
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