The galaxy population evolution of Sunyaev

This thesis presents a study of the galaxy populations in massive
galaxy clusters that have been selected via the Sunyaev - Zeldovich
Effect from the South Pole Telescope. The clusters have multiband
optical imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Each
cluster has a robust mass estimate and with the deep DES data they
cover a redshift range between 0 and 1.1. This makes it an ideal
cluster sample to study evolutionary trends of the galaxy
populations with mass and redshift.