THE MASSIVE and DISTANT CLUSTERS of WISE SURVEY: MOO J1142+1527, A 1015 Mo GALAXY CLUSTER at z = 1.19

Anthony H. Gonzalez; Bandon Decker; Mark Brodwin; Peter R.M. Eisenhardt; Daniel P. Marrone; S. A. Stanford; Daniel Stern; Dominika Wylezalek; Greg Aldering; Zubair Abdulla; Kyle Boone; John Carlstrom; Parker Fagrelius; Daniel P. Gettings; Christopher H. Greer; Brian Hayden; Erik M. Leitch; Yen Ting Lin; Adam B. Mantz; Stephen Muchovej; Saul Perlmutter; Gregory R. Zeimann

doi:10.1088/2041-8205/812/2/L40

THE MASSIVE and DISTANT CLUSTERS of WISE SURVEY: MOO J1142+1527, A 10¹⁵ M_o GALAXY CLUSTER at z = 1.19

Anthony H. Gonzalez
, Bandon Decker
, Mark Brodwin
, Peter R.M. Eisenhardt
, Daniel P. Marrone
, S. A. Stanford
, Daniel Stern
, Dominika Wylezalek
, Greg Aldering
, Zubair Abdulla
, Kyle Boone
, John Carlstrom
, Parker Fagrelius
, Daniel P. Gettings
, Christopher H. Greer
, Brian Hayden
, Erik M. Leitch
, Yen Ting Lin
, Adam B. Mantz
, Stephen Muchovej

Saul Perlmutter, Gregory R. Zeimann

Astronomy

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Abstract

We present confirmation of the cluster MOO J1142+1527, a massive galaxy cluster discovered as part of the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. The cluster is confirmed to lie at z = 1.19, and using the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy we robustly detect the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) decrement at 13.2σ. The SZ data imply a mass of M_200m = (1.1 ± 0.2) × 10¹⁵M_o, making MOO J1142+1527 the most massive galaxy cluster known at z > 1.15 and the second most massive cluster known at z > 1. For a standard ΛCDM cosmology it is further expected to be one of the ∼5 most massive clusters expected to exist at z ≥ 1.19 over the entire sky. Our ongoing Spitzer program targeting ∼1750 additional candidate clusters will identify comparably rich galaxy clusters over the full extragalactic sky.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	L40
Journal	Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume	812
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/812/2/L40
State	Published - Oct 20 2015

Keywords

galaxies: clusters: individual (MOO J1142+1527)
galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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Gonzalez, A. H., Decker, B., Brodwin, M., Eisenhardt, P. R. M., Marrone, D. P., Stanford, S. A., Stern, D., Wylezalek, D., Aldering, G., Abdulla, Z., Boone, K., Carlstrom, J., Fagrelius, P., Gettings, D. P., Greer, C. H., Hayden, B., Leitch, E. M., Lin, Y. T., Mantz, A. B., ... Zeimann, G. R. (2015). THE MASSIVE and DISTANT CLUSTERS of WISE SURVEY: MOO J1142+1527, A 10¹⁵ M_o GALAXY CLUSTER at z = 1.19. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 812(2), Article L40. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/812/2/L40

Gonzalez, AH, Decker, B, Brodwin, M, Eisenhardt, PRM, Marrone, DP, Stanford, SA, Stern, D, Wylezalek, D, Aldering, G, Abdulla, Z, Boone, K, Carlstrom, J, Fagrelius, P, Gettings, DP, Greer, CH, Hayden, B, Leitch, EM, Lin, YT, Mantz, AB, Muchovej, S, Perlmutter, S & Zeimann, GR 2015, 'THE MASSIVE and DISTANT CLUSTERS of WISE SURVEY: MOO J1142+1527, A 10¹⁵ M_o GALAXY CLUSTER at z = 1.19', Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 812, no. 2, L40. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/812/2/L40

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