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Anbajagane, D; Chang, C; Jain, B; Adhikari, S; Baxter, E J; Benson, B A; Bleem, L E; Bocquet, S; Calzadilla, M S; Carlstrom, J E; et al(
, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
ABSTRACT We search for the signature of cosmological shocks in stacked gas pressure profiles of galaxy clusters using data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). Specifically, we stack the latest Compton-y maps from the 2500 deg2 SPT-SZ survey on the locations of clusters identified in that same data set. The sample contains 516 clusters with mean mass $\langle M_{\rm 200m}\rangle = 10^{14.9} \, {\rm M}_\odot$ and redshift 〈z〉 = 0.55. We analyse in parallel a set of zoom-in hydrodynamical simulations from the three hundred project. The SPT-SZ data show two features: (i) a pressure deficit at R/R200m = 1.08 ± 0.09, measured at 3.1σ significancemore »and not observed in the simulations, and; (ii) a sharp decrease in pressure at R/R200m = 4.58 ± 1.24 at 2.0σ significance. The pressure deficit is qualitatively consistent with a shock-induced thermal non-equilibrium between electrons and ions, and the second feature is consistent with accretion shocks seen in previous studies. We split the cluster sample by redshift and mass, and find both features exist in all cases. There are also no significant differences in features along and across the cluster major axis, whose orientation roughly points towards filamentary structure. As a consistency test, we also analyse clusters from the Planck and Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter surveys and find quantitatively similar features in the pressure profiles. Finally, we compare the accretion shock radius ($R_{\rm sh,\, acc}$) with existing measurements of the splashback radius (Rsp) for SPT-SZ and constrain the lower limit of the ratio, $R_{\rm sh,\, acc}/R_{\rm sp}\gt 2.16 \pm 0.59$.« less
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Chaubal, P. S.; Reichardt, C. L.; Gupta, N.; Ansarinejad, B.; Aylor, K.; Balkenhol, L.; Baxter, E. J.; Bianchini, F.; Benson, B. A.; Bleem, L. E.; et al(
, The Astrophysical Journal)
Abstract We show the improvement to cosmological constraints from galaxy cluster surveys with the addition of cosmic microwave background (CMB)-cluster lensing data. We explore the cosmological implications of adding mass information from the 3.1 σ detection of gravitational lensing of the CMB by galaxy clusters to the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ) selected galaxy cluster sample from the 2500 deg 2 SPT-SZ survey and targeted optical and X-ray follow-up data. In the ΛCDM model, the combination of the cluster sample with the Planck power spectrum measurements prefers σ 8 Ω m / 0.3 0.5 = 0.831 ± 0.020 . Adding the cluster datamore »reduces the uncertainty on this quantity by a factor of 1.4, which is unchanged whether the 3.1 σ CMB-cluster lensing measurement is included or not. We then forecast the impact of CMB-cluster lensing measurements with future cluster catalogs. Adding CMB-cluster lensing measurements to the SZ cluster catalog of the ongoing SPT-3G survey is expected to improve the expected constraint on the dark energy equation of state w by a factor of 1.3 to σ ( w ) = 0.19. We find the largest improvements from CMB-cluster lensing measurements to be for σ 8 , where adding CMB-cluster lensing data to the cluster number counts reduces the expected uncertainty on σ 8 by respective factors of 2.4 and 3.6 for SPT-3G and CMB-S4.« less
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Millea, M.; Daley, C. M.; Chou, T-L.; Anderes, E.; Ade, P. A.; Anderson, A. J.; Austermann, J. E.; Avva, J. S.; Beall, J. A.; Bender, A. N.; et al(
, The Astrophysical Journal)
Abstract We perform the first simultaneous Bayesian parameter inference and optimal reconstruction of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using 100 deg 2 of polarization observations from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. These data reach noise levels as low as 5.8 μ K arcmin in polarization, which are low enough that the typically used quadratic estimator (QE) technique for analyzing CMB lensing is significantly suboptimal. Conversely, the Bayesian procedure extracts all lensing information from the data and is optimal at any noise level. We infer the amplitude of the gravitational lensing potential to bemore »A ϕ = 0.949 ± 0.122 using the Bayesian pipeline, consistent with our QE pipeline result, but with 17% smaller error bars. The Bayesian analysis also provides a simple way to account for systematic uncertainties, performing a similar job as frequentist “bias hardening” or linear bias correction, and reducing the systematic uncertainty on A ϕ due to polarization calibration from almost half of the statistical error to effectively zero. Finally, we jointly constrain A ϕ along with A L , the amplitude of lensing-like effects on the CMB power spectra, demonstrating that the Bayesian method can be used to easily infer parameters both from an optimal lensing reconstruction and from the delensed CMB, while exactly accounting for the correlation between the two. These results demonstrate the feasibility of the Bayesian approach on real data, and pave the way for future analysis of deep CMB polarization measurements with SPT-3G, Simons Observatory, and CMB-S4, where improvements relative to the QE can reach 1.5 times tighter constraints on A ϕ and seven times lower effective lensing reconstruction noise.« less
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Everett, W. B.; Zhang, L.; Crawford, T. M.; Vieira, J. D.; Aravena, M.; Archipley, M. A.; Austermann, J. E.; Benson, B. A.; Bleem, L. E.; Carlstrom, J. E.; et al(
, The Astrophysical Journal)
Balkenhol, L.; Dutcher, D.; Ade, P. A. R.; Ahmed, Z.; Anderes, E.; Anderson, A. J.; Archipley, M.; Avva, J. S.; Aylor, K.; Barry, P. S.; et al(
, Physical Review D)
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Dutcher, D.; Balkenhol, L.; Ade, P. A. R.; Ahmed, Z.; Anderes, E.; Anderson, A. J.; Archipley, M.; Avva, J. S.; Aylor, K.; Barry, P. S.; et al(
, Physical Review D)
Bianchini, F.; Wu, W. L. K.; Ade, P. A. R.; Anderson, A. J.; Austermann, J. E.; Avva, J. S.; Balkenhol, L.; Baxter, E.; Beall, J. A.; Bender, A. N.; et al(
, Physical Review D)
Dietrich, J P; Bocquet, S; Schrabback, T; Applegate, D; Hoekstra, H; Grandis, S; Mohr, J J; Allen, S W; Bayliss, M B; Benson, B A; et al(
, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
