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SPT-CL J0546-5345: A MASSIVE<i>z</i>&gt;1 GALAXY CLUSTER SELECTED VIA THE SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT WITH THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE

SPT-CL J0546-5345: A MASSIVE<i>z</i>&gt;1 GALAXY CLUSTER SELECTED VIA THE SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT WITH THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE

We report the spectroscopic confirmation of SPT-CL J0546-5345 at <z> = 1.067. To date this is the most distant cluster to be spectroscopically confirmed from the 2008 South Pole Telescope (SPT) catalog, and indeed the first z > 1 cluster discovered by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE). We identify 21 secure …