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SOUTHERN COSMOLOGY SURVEY. II. MASSIVE OPTICALLY SELECTED CLUSTERS FROM 70 SQUARE DEGREES OF THE SUNYAEV–ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT COMMON SURVEY AREA

SOUTHERN COSMOLOGY SURVEY. II. MASSIVE OPTICALLY SELECTED CLUSTERS FROM 70 SQUARE DEGREES OF THE SUNYAEV–ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT COMMON SURVEY AREA

We present a catalog of 105 rich and massive (M>3 × 1014 M☉) optically selected clusters of galaxies extracted from 70 deg2 of public archival griz imaging from the Blanco 4 m telescope acquired over 45 nights between 2005 and 2007. We use the clusters' optically derived properties to estimate …