SPT-CL J2040-4451 - spectroscopically confirmed at z = 1.478 - is the highest-redshift galaxy cluster yet discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. SPT-CL J2040-4451 was a candidate galaxy cluster identified in the first 720 deg2of the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SPT-SZ) survey, and has been confirmed in follow-up imaging and spectroscopy. From multi-object spectroscopy with Magellan-I/Baade+IMACS we measure spectroscopic redshifts for 15 cluster member galaxies, all of which have strong [O II] λλ3727 emission. SPT-CL J2040-4451 has an SZ-measured mass of M500, SZ = 3.2 ± 0.8 × 1014Mh, corresponding to M200, SZ = 5.8 ± 1.4 × 1014Mh. The velocity dispersion measured entirely from blue star-forming members is σv= 1500 ± 520 km s-1. The prevalence of star-forming cluster members (galaxies with >1.5 M yr-1) implies that this massive, high-redshift cluster is experiencing a phase of active star formation, and supports recent results showing a marked increase in star formation occurring in galaxy clusters at z ≳ 1.4. We also compute the probability of finding a cluster as rare as this in the SPT-SZ survey to be >99%, indicating that its discovery is not in tension with the concordance ΛCDM cosmological model.
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Bayliss, M. B., Ashby, M. L. N., Ruel, J., Brodwin, M., Aird, K. A., Bautz, M. W., … Zenteno, A. (2014). SPT-CL J2040-4451: An SZ-selected galaxy cluster at z = 1.478 with significant ongoing star formation. Astrophysical Journal, 794(1). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/794/1/12
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