Browsing by Author "Menanteau, F."

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    First cosmology results using Type Ia supernova from the Dark Energy Survey: simulations to correct supernova distance biases
    (2019) Kessler, R.; Brout, D.; D'Andrea, C. B.; Davis, T. M.; Hinton, S. R.; Kim, A. G.; Lasker, J.; Lidman, C.; Macaulay, E.; Moeller, A.; Sako, M.; Scolnic, D.; Smith, M.; Sullivan, M.; Zhang, B.; Andersen, P.; Asorey, J.; Avelino, A.; Calcino, J.; Carollo, D.; Challis, P.; Childress, M.; Clocchiatti, A.; Crawford, S.; Filippenko, A. V.; Foley, R. J.; Glazebrook, K.; Hoormann, J. K.; Kasai, E.; Kirshner, R. P.; Lewis, G. F.; Mandel, K. S.; March, M.; Morganson, E.; Muthukrishna, D.; Nugent, P.; Pan, Y. -C.; Sommer, N. E.; Swann, E.; Thomas, R. C.; Tucker, B. E.; Uddin, S. A.; Abbott, T. M. C.; Allam, S.; Annis, J.; Avila, S.; Banerji, M.; Bechtol, K.; Bertin, E.; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, E.; Burke, D. L.; Carnero Rosell, A.; Kind, M. Carrasco; Carretero, J.; Castander, F. J.; Crocce, M.; da Costa, L. N.; Davis, C.; De Vicente, J.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. T.; Doel, P.; Eifler, T. F.; Flaugher, B.; Fosalba, P.; Frieman, J.; Garcia-Bellido, J.; Gaztanaga, E.; Gerdes, D. W.; Gruen, D.; Gruendl, R. A.; Gutierrez, G.; Hartley, W. G.; Hollowood, D. L.; Honscheid, K.; James, D. J.; Johnson, M. W. G.; Johnson, M. D.; Krause, E.; Kuehn, K.; Kuropatkin, N.; Lahav, O.; Li, T. S.; Lima, M.; Marshall, J. L.; Martini, P.; Menanteau, F.; Miller, C. J.; Miquel, R.; Nord, B.; Plazas, A. A.; Roodman, A.; Sanchez, E.; Scarpine, V.; Schindler, R.; Schubnell, M.; Serrano, S.; Sevilla-Noarbe, I.; Soares-Santos, M.; Sobreira, F.; Suchyta, E.; Tarle, G.; Thomas, D.; Walker, A. R.; Zhang, Y.
    We describe catalogue-level simulations of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) light curves in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN) and in low-redshift samples from the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP). These simulations are used to model biases from selection effects and light-curve analysis and to determine bias corrections for SN Ia distance moduli that are used to measure cosmological parameters. To generate realistic light curves, the simulation uses a detailed SN Ia model, incorporates information from observations (point spread function, sky noise, zero-point), and uses summary information (e.g. detection efficiency versus signal-to-noise ratio) based on 10 000 fake SN light curves whose fluxes were overlaid on images and processed with our analysis pipelines. The quality of the simulation is illustrated by predicting distributions observed in the data. Averaging within redshift bins, we find distance modulus biases up to 0.05 mag over the redshift ranges of the low-z and DES-SN samples. For individual events, particularly those with extreme red or blue colour, distance biases can reach 0.4 mag. Therefore, accurately determining bias corrections is critical for precision measurements of cosmological parameters. Files used to make these corrections are available at https://des.ncsa.illinois.edu/releases/sn.
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    Hubble Space Telescope ACS Multiband Coronagraphic Imaging of the Debris Disk around β Pictoris
    (2006) Golimowski, D. A.; Ardila, D. R.; Krist, J. E.; Clampin, M.; Ford, H. C.; Illingworth, G. D.; Bartko, F.; Benitez, N.; Blakeslee, J. P.; Bouwens, R. J.; Bradley, L. D.; Broadhurst, T. J.; Brown, R. A.; Burrows, C. J.; Cheng, E. S.; Cross, N. J. G.; Demarco, R.; Feldman, P. D.; Franx, M.; Goto, T.; Gronwall, C.; Hartig, G. F.; Holden, B. P.; Homeier, N. L.; Infante, L.; Jee, M. J.; Kimble, R. A.; Lesser, M. P.; Martel, A. R.; Mei, S.; Menanteau, F.; Meurer, G. R.; Miley, G. K.; Motta, V.; Postman, M.; Rosati, P.; Sirianni, M.; Sparks, W. B.; Tran, H. D.; Tsvetanov, Z. I.; White, R. L.; Zheng, W.; Zirm, A. W.
    We present F435W(B), F606W (broad V), and F814W(broad I) coronagraphic images of the debris disk around beta Pictoris obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. These images provide the most photometrically accurate and morphologically detailed views of the disk between 30 and 300 AU from the star ever recorded in scattered light. We confirm that the previously reported warp in the inner disk is a distinct secondary disk inclined by similar to 5 degrees from the main disk. The projected spine of the secondary disk coincides with the isophotal inflections, or "butterfly asymmetry,'' previously seen at large distances from the star. We also confirm that the opposing extensions of the main disk have different position angles, but we find that this "wing-tilt asymmetry'' is centered on the star rather than offset from it, as previously reported. The main disk's northeast extension is linear from 80 to 250 AU, but the southwest extension is distinctly bowed with an amplitude of similar to 1 AU over the same region. Both extensions of the secondary disk appear linear, but not collinear, from 80 to 150 AU. Within similar to 120 AU of the star, the main disk is similar to 50% thinner than previously reported. The surface brightness profiles along the spine of the main disk are fitted with four distinct radial power laws between 40 and 250 AU, while those of the secondary disk between 80 and 150 AU are fitted with single power laws. These discrepancies suggest that the two disks have different grain compositions or size distributions. The F606W/F435W and F814W/F435W flux ratios of the composite disk are nonuniform and asymmetric about both projected axes of the disk. The disk's northwest region appears 20%-30% redder than its southeast region, which is inconsistent with the notion that forward scattering from the nearer northwest side of the disk should diminish with increasing wavelength. Within similar to 120 AU, the m(F435W)-m(F606W) and m(F435W)-m(F814W) colors along the spine of the main disk are similar to 10% and similar to 20% redder, respectively, than those of beta Pic. These colors increasingly redden beyond similar to 120 AU, becoming 25% and 40% redder, respectively, than the star at 250 AU. These measurements overrule previous determinations that the disk is composed of neutrally scattering grains. The change in color gradient at similar to 120 AU nearly coincides with the prominent inflection in the surface brightness profile at similar to 115 AU and the expected water-ice sublimation boundary. We compare the observed red colors within similar to 120 AU with the simulated colors of nonicy grains having a radial number density alpha r(-3) and different compositions, porosities, and minimum grain sizes. The observed colors are consistent with those of compact or moderately porous grains of astronomical silicate and/or graphite with sizes greater than or similar to 0.15-0.20 mu m, but the colors are inconsistent with the blue colors expected from grains with porosities greater than or similar to 90%. The increasingly red colors beyond the ice sublimation zone may indicate the condensation of icy mantles on the refractory grains, or they may reflect an increasing minimum grain size caused by the cessation of cometary activity.
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    Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with ACT, DES, and BOSS: A novel hybrid estimator
    (2023) Mallaby-Kay, M.; Amodeo, S.; Hill, J. C.; Aguena, M.; Allam, S.; Alves, O.; Annis, J.; Battaglia, N.; Battistelli, E. S.; Baxter, E. J.; Bechtol, K.; Becker, M. R.; Bertin, E.; Bond, J. R.; Brooks, D.; Calabrese, E.; Rosell, A. Carnero; Kind, M. Carrasco; Carretero, J.; Choi, A.; Crocce, M.; da Costa, L. N.; Pereira, M. E. S.; De Vicente, J.; Desai, S.; Dietrich, J. P.; Doel, P.; Doux, C.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Dunkley, J.; Elvin-Poole, J.; Everett, S.; Ferraro, S.; Ferrero, I.; Frieman, J.; Gallardo, P. A.; Garcia-Bellido, J.; Giannini, G.; Gruen, D.; Gruendl, R. A.; Gutierrez, G.; Hinton, S. R.; Hollowood, D. L.; James, D. J.; Kosowsky, A.; Kuehn, K.; Lokken, M.; Louis, T.; Marshall, J. L.; McMahon, J.; Mena-Fernandez, J.; Menanteau, F.; Miquel, R.; Moodley, K.; Mroczkowski, T.; Naess, S.; Niemack, M. D.; Ogando, R. L. C.; Page, L.; Pandey, S.; Pieres, A.; Malagon, A. A. Plazas; Raveri, M.; Rodriguez-Monroy, M.; Rykoff, E. S.; Samuroff, S.; Sanchez, E.; Schaan, E.; Sevilla-Noarbe, I.; Sheldon, E.; Sifon, C.; Smith, M.; Soares-Santos, M.; Sobreira, F.; Suchyta, E.; Tarle, G.; To, C.; Vargas, C.; Vavagiakis, E. M.; Weaverdyck, N.; Weller, J.; Wiseman, P.; Yanny, B.
    The kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ and tSZ) effects probe the abundance and thermodynamics of ionized gas in galaxies and clusters. We present a new hybrid estimator to measure the kSZ effect by combining cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy maps with photometric and spectroscopic optical survey data. The method interpolates a velocity reconstruction from a spectroscopic catalog at the positions of objects in a photometric catalog, which makes it possible to leverage the high number density of the photometric catalog and the precision of the spectroscopic survey. Combining this hybrid kSZ estimator with a measurement of the tSZ effect simultaneously constrains the density and temperature of free electrons in the photometrically selected galaxies. Using the 1000 deg2 of overlap between the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 5, the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 12, we detect the kSZ signal at 4.8 & sigma; and reject the null (no-kSZ) hypothesis at 5.1 & sigma;. This corresponds to 2.0 & sigma; per 100,000 photometric objects with a velocity field based on a spectroscopic survey with 1=5th the density of the photometric catalog. For comparison, a recent ACT analysis using exclusively spectroscopic data from BOSS measured the kSZ signal at 2.1 & sigma; per 100,000 objects. Our derived constraints on the thermodynamic properties of the galaxy halos are consistent with previous measure-ments. With future surveys, such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument and the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time, we expect that this hybrid estimator could result in measurements with significantly better signal-to-noise than those that rely on spectroscopic data alone.
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    SOAR/Goodman Spectroscopic Assessment of Candidate Counterparts of the LIGO/Virgo Event GW190814*
    (2022) Tucker, D. L.; Wiesner, M. P.; Allam, S. S.; Soares-Santos, M.; Bom, C. R.; Butner, M.; Garcia, A.; Morgan, R.; Olivares E, F.; Palmese, A.; Santana-Silva, L.; Shrivastava, A.; Annis, J.; Garcia-Bellido, J.; Gill, M. S. S.; Herner, K.; Kilpatrick, C. D.; Makler, M.; Sherman, N.; Amara, A.; Lin, H.; Smith, M.; Swann, E.; Arcavi, I; Bachmann, T. G.; Bechtol, K.; Berlfein, F.; Briceno, C.; Brout, D.; Butler, R. E.; Cartier, R.; Casares, J.; Chen, H-Y; Conselice, C.; Contreras, C.; Cook, E.; Cooke, J.; Dage, K.; D'Andrea, C.; Davis, T. M.; de Carvalho, R.; Diehl, H. T.; Dietrich, J. P.; Doctor, Z.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Drout, M.; Farr, B.; Finley, D. A.; Fishbach, M.; Foley, R. J.; Forster-Buron, F.; Fosalba, P.; Friedel, D.; Frieman, J.; Frohmaier, C.; Gruendl, R. A.; Hartley, W. G.; Hiramatsu, D.; Holz, D. E.; Howell, D. A.; Kawash, A.; Kessler, R.; Kuropatkin, N.; Lahav, O.; Lundgren, A.; Lundquist, M.; Malik, U.; Mann, A. W.; Marriner, J.; Marshall, J. L.; Martinez-Vazquez, C. E.; McCully, C.; Menanteau, F.; Meza, N.; Narayan, G.; Neilsen, E.; Nicolaou, C.; Nichol, R.; Paz-Chinchon, F.; Pereira, M. E. S.; Pineda, J.; Points, S.; Quirola-Vasquez, J.; Rembold, S.; Rest, A.; Rodriguez, O.; Romer, A. K.; Sako, M.; Salim, S.; Scolnic, D.; Smith, J. A.; Strader, J.; Sullivan, M.; Swanson, M. E. C.; Thomas, D.; Valenti, S.; Varga, T. N.; Walker, A. R.; Weller, J.; Wood, M. L.; Yanny, B.; Zenteno, A.; Aguena, M.; Andrade-Oliveira, F.; Bertin, E.; Brooks, D.; Burke, D. L.; Rosell, A. Carnero; Kind, M. Carrasco; Carretero, J.; Costanzi, M.; da Costa, L. N.; De Vicente, J.; Desai, S.; Everett, S.; Ferrero, I; Flaugher, B.; Gaztanaga, E.; Gerdes, D. W.; Gruen, D.; Gschwend, J.; Gutierrez, G.; Hinton, S. R.; Hollowood, D. L.; Honscheid, K.; James, D. J.; Kuehn, K.; Lima, M.; Maia, M. A. G.; Miquel, R.; Ogando, R. L. C.; Pieres, A.; Malagon, A. A. Plazas; Rodriguez-Monroy, M.; Sanchez, E.; Scarpine, V; Schubnell, M.; Serrano, S.; Sevilla-Noarbe, I; Suchyta, E.; Tarle, G.; To, C.; Zhang, Y.
    On 2019 August 14 at 21:10:39 UTC, the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration (LVC) detected a possible neutron star-black hole merger (NSBH), the first ever identified. An extensive search for an optical counterpart of this event, designated GW190814, was undertaken using the Dark Energy Camera on the 4 m Victor M. Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. Target of Opportunity interrupts were issued on eight separate nights to observe 11 candidates using the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope's Goodman High Throughput Spectrograph in order to assess whether any of these transients was likely to be an optical counterpart of the possible NSBH merger. Here, we describe the process of observing with SOAR, the analysis of our spectra, our spectroscopic typing methodology, and our resultant conclusion that none of the candidates corresponded to the gravitational wave merger event but were all instead other transients. Finally, we describe the lessons learned from this effort. Application of these lessons will be critical for a successful community spectroscopic follow-up program for LVC observing run 4 (O4) and beyond.
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    Strong lensing analysis of PLCK G004.5-19.5, a Planck -discovered cluster hosting a radio relic at z = 0.52
    (2014) Carrasco, M.; Sifon, C.; Menanteau, F.; Hughes, J.; Barrientos, Luis Felipe
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    The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT): Beam Profiles and First SZ Cluster Maps
    (2010) Hincks, A. D.; Acquaviva, V.; Ade, P. A. R.; Aguirre, P.; Amiri, M.; Appel, J. W.; Barrientos, L. F.; Battistelli, E. S.; Bond, J. R.; Brown, B.; Burger, B.; Chervenak, J.; Das, S.; Devlin, M. J.; Dicker, S. R.; Doriese, W. B.; Dunkley, J.; Dünner, R.; Essinger-Hileman, T.; Fisher, R. P.; Fowler, J. W.; Hajian, A.; Halpern, M.; Hasselfield, M.; Hernández-Monteagudo, C.; Hilton, G. C.; Hilton, M.; Hlozek, R.; Huffenberger, K. M.; Hughes, D. H.; Hughes, J. P.; Infante, L.; Irwin, K. D.; Jimenez, R.; Juin, J. B.; Kaul, M.; Klein, J.; Kosowsky, A.; Lau, J. M.; Limon, M.; Lin, Y. -T.; Lupton, R. H.; Marriage, T. A.; Marsden, D.; Martocci, K.; Mauskopf, P.; Menanteau, F.; Moodley, K.; Moseley, H.; Netterfield, C. B.; Niemack, M. D.; Nolta, M. R.; Page, L. A.; Parker, L.; Partridge, B.; Quintana, H.; Reid, B.; Sehgal, N.; Sievers, J.; Spergel, D. N.; Staggs, S. T.; Stryzak, O.; Swetz, D. S.; Switzer, E. R.; Thornton, R.; Trac, H.; Tucker, C.; Verde, L.; Warne, R.; Wilson, G.; Wollack, E.; Zhao, Y.
    The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is currently observing the cosmic microwave background with arcminute resolution at 148 GHz, 218 GHz, and 277 GHz. In this paper, we present ACT's first results. Data have been analyzed using a maximum-likelihood map-making method which uses B-splines to model and remove the atmospheric signal. It has been used to make high-precision beam maps from which we determine the experiment's window functions. This beam information directly impacts all subsequent analyses of the data. We also used the method to map a sample of galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and show five clusters previously detected with X-ray or SZ observations. We provide integrated Compton-y measurements for each cluster. Of particular interest is our detection of the z = 0.44 component of A3128 and our current non-detection of the low-redshift part, providing strong evidence that the further cluster is more massive as suggested by X-ray measurements. This is a compelling example of the redshift-independent mass selection of the SZ effect.
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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
    (2013) Sifon, C.; Menanteau, F.; Hasselfield, M.; Marriage, T.; Hughes, J.; Barrientos, Luis Felipe; González, J.; Infante Lira, Leopoldo; Addison, G.; Baker, A.; Battaglia, N.; Bond, J.; Crichton, D.; Dunner, R. et al.
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    The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Catalog of >4000 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters
    (2021) Hilton, M.; Sifon, C.; Naess, S.; Madhavacheril, M.; Oguri, M.; Rozo, E.; Rykoff, E.; Abbott, T. M. C.; Adhikari, S.; Aguena, M.; Aiola, S.; Allam, S.; Amodeo, S.; Amon, A.; Annis, J.; Ansarinejad, B.; Aros-Bunster, C.; Austermann, J. E.; Avila, S.; Bacon, D.; Battaglia, N.; Beall, J. A.; Becker, D. T.; Bernstein, G. M.; Bertin, E.; Bhandarkar, T.; Bhargava, S.; Bond, J. R.; Brooks, D.; Burke, D. L.; Calabrese, E.; Carrasco Kind, M.; Carretero, J.; Choi, S. K.; Choi, A.; Conselice, C.; Costa, L. N. da; Costanzi, M.; Crichton, D.; Crowley, K. T.; Dunner, R.; Denison, E. V.; Devlin, M. J.; Dicker, S. R.; Diehl, H. T.; Dietrich, J. P.; Doel, P.; Duff, S. M.; Duivenvoorden, A. J.; Dunkley, J.; Everett, S.; Ferraro, S.; Ferrero, I.; Ferte, A.; Flaugher, B.; Frieman, J.; Gallardo, P. A.; Garcia-Bellido, J.; Gaztanaga, E.; Gerdes, D. W.; Giles, P.; Golec, J. E.; Gralla, M. B.; Grandis, S.; Gruen, D.; Gruendl, R. A.; Gschwend, J.; Gutierrez, G.; Han, D.; Hartley, W. G.; Hasselfield, M.; Hill, J. C.; Hilton, G. C.; Hincks, A. D.; Hinton, S. R.; Ho, S-P. P.; Honscheid, K.; Hoyle, B.; Hubmayr, J.; Huffenberger, K. M.; Hughes, J. P.; Jaelani, A. T.; Jain, B.; James, D. J.; Jeltema, T.; Kent, S.; Knowles, K.; Koopman, B. J.; Kuehn, K.; Lahav, O.; Lima, M.; Lin, Y-T.; Lokken, M.; Loubser, S. I.; MacCrann, N.; Maia, M. A. G.; Marriage, T. A.; Martin, J.; McMahon, J.; Melchior, P.; Menanteau, F.; Miquel, R.; Miyatake, H.; Moodley, K.; Morgan, R.; Mroczkowski, T.; Nati, F.; Newburgh, L. B.; Niemack, M. D.; Nishizawa, A. J.; Ogando, R. L. C.; Orlowski-Scherer, J.; Page, L. A.; Palmese, A.; Partridge, B.; Paz-Chinchon, F.; Phakathi, P.; Plazas, A. A.; Robertson, N. C.; Romer, A. K.; Rosell, A. Carnero; Salatino, M.; Sanchez, E.; Schaan, E.; Schillaci, A.; Sehgal, N.; Serrano, S.; Shin, T.; Simon, S. M.; Smith, M.; Soares-Santos, M.; Spergel, D. N.; Staggs, S. T.; Storer, E. R.; Suchyta, E.; Swanson, M. E. C.; Tarle, G.; Thomas, D.; To, C.; Trac, H.; Ullom, J. N.; Vale, L. R.; Lanen, J. Van; Vavagiakis, E. M.; Vicente, J. De; Wilkinson, R. D.; Wollack, E. J.; Xu, Z.; Zhang, Y.
    We present a catalog of 4195 optically confirmed Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy clusters detected with signal-to-noise ratio >4 in 13,211 deg(2) of sky surveyed by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). Cluster candidates were selected by applying a multifrequency matched filter to 98 and 150 GHz maps constructed from ACT observations obtained from 2008 to 2018 and confirmed using deep, wide-area optical surveys. The clusters span the redshift range 0.04 < z < 1.91 (median z = 0.52). The catalog contains 222 z > 1 clusters, and a total of 868 systems are new discoveries. Assuming an SZ signal versus mass-scaling relation calibrated from X-ray observations, the sample has a 90% completeness mass limit of M-500c > 3.8 x 10(14) M, evaluated at z = 0.5, for clusters detected at signal-to-noise ratio >5 in maps filtered at an angular scale of 24. The survey has a large overlap with deep optical weak-lensing surveys that are being used to calibrate the SZ signal mass-scaling relation, such as the Dark Energy Survey (4566 deg(2)), the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (469 deg(2)), and the Kilo Degree Survey (825 deg(2)). We highlight some noteworthy objects in the sample, including potentially projected systems, clusters with strong lensing features, clusters with active central galaxies or star formation, and systems of multiple clusters that may be physically associated. The cluster catalog will be a useful resource for future cosmological analyses and studying the evolution of the intracluster medium and galaxies in massive clusters over the past 10 Gyr.
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    THE ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE: A MEASUREMENT OF THE 600 < ℓ < 8000 COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND POWER SPECTRUM AT 148 GHz
    (2010) Fowler, J. W.; Acquaviva, V.; Ade, P. A. R.; Aguirre, P.; Amiri, M.; Appel, J. W.; Barrientos, L. F.; Battistelli, E. S.; Bond, J. R.; Brown, B.; Burger, B.; Chervenak, J.; Das, S.; Devlin, M. J.; Dicker, S. R.; Doriese, W. B.; Dunkley, J.; Dünner, R.; Essinger-Hileman, T.; Fisher, R. P.; Hajian, A.; Halpern, M.; Hasselfield, M.; Hernández-Monteagudo, C.; Hilton, G. C.; Hilton, M.; Hincks, A. D.; Hlozek, R.; Huffenberger, K. M.; Hughes, D. H.; Hughes, J. P.; Infante, L.; Irwin, K. D.; Jimenez, R.; Juin, J. B.; Kaul, M.; Klein, J.; Kosowsky, A.; Lau, J. M.; Limon, M.; Lin, Y. -T.; Lupton, R. H.; Marriage, T. A.; Marsden, D.; Martocci, K.; Mauskopf, P.; Menanteau, F.; Moodley, K.; Moseley, H.; Netterfield, C. B.; Niemack, M. D.; Nolta, M. R.; Page, L. A.; Parker, L.; Partridge, B.; Quintana, H.; Reid, B.; Sehgal, N.; Sievers, J.; Spergel, D. N.; Staggs, S. T.; Swetz, D. S.; Switzer, E. R.; Thornton, R.; Trac, H.; Tucker, C.; Verde, L.; Warne, R.; Wilson, G.; Wollack, E.; Zhao, Y.
    We present a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation observed at 148 GHz. The measurement uses maps with 1'.4 angular resolution made with data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). The observations cover 228 deg(2) of the southern sky, in a 4 degrees.2 wide strip centered on declination 53 degrees south. The CMB at arcminute angular scales is particularly sensitive to the Silk damping scale, to the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from galaxy clusters, and to emission by radio sources and dusty galaxies. After masking the 108 brightest point sources in our maps, we estimate the power spectrum between 600 < l < 8000 using the adaptive multi-taper method to minimize spectral leakage and maximize use of the full data set. Our absolute calibration is based on observations of Uranus. To verify the calibration and test the fidelity of our map at large angular scales, we cross-correlate the ACT map to the WMAP map and recover the WMAP power spectrum from 250 < l < 1150. The power beyond the Silk damping tail of the CMB (l similar to 5000) is consistent with models of the emission from point sources. We quantify the contribution of SZ clusters to the power spectrum by fitting to a model normalized to sigma(8) = 0.8. We constrain the model's amplitude A(SZ) < 1.63 (95% CL). If interpreted as a measurement of sigma(8), this implies sigma(SZ)(8) < 0.86 (95% CL) given our SZ model. A fit of ACT and WMAP five-year data jointly to a six-parameter Lambda CDM model plus point sources and the SZ effect is consistent with these results.
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    The Atacama cosmology telescope: ACT-CL J0102-4915 "el Gordo," A massive merging cluster at redshift 0.87
    (2012) Menanteau, F.; Sifón Andalaft, Cristóbal Javier.; González López, Jorge; Infante Lira, Leopoldo
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    THE ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE: PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT CLUSTERS ON THE CELESTIAL EQUATOR
    (2013) Menanteau, F.; Sifón Andalaft, Cristóbal Javier.; Barrientos, Luis Felipe; Dünner Planella, Rolando
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