Abstract
An understanding of astrophysical feedback is important for constraining models of galaxy formation and for extracting cosmological information from current and future weak lensing surveys. The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, quantified via the Compton-y parameter, is a powerful tool for studying feedback, because it directly probes the pressure of the hot, ionized gas residing in dark matter halos. Cross-correlations between galaxies and maps of Compton-y obtained from cosmic microwave background surveys are sensitive to the redshift evolution of the gas pressure, and its dependence on halo mass. In this work, we use galaxies identified in year one data from the Dark Energy Survey and Compton-y maps constructed from Planck observations. We find highly significant (roughly 12σ) detections of galaxy-y cross-correlation in multiple redshift bins. By jointly fitting these measurements as well as measurements of galaxy clustering, we constrain the halo bias-weighted, gas pressure of the Universe as a function of redshift between 0.15?z?0.75. We compare these measurements to predictions from hydrodynamical simulations, allowing us to constrain the amount of thermal energy in the halo gas relative to that resulting from gravitational collapse.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 63519 |
Journal | Physical Review D |
Volume | 100 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 16 2019 |
Funding
We thank the Websky group for making their simulations publicly available, and for providing support for their use. We thank Mathieu Remazeilles for assistance in understanding the Planck maps. We also thank Nicholas Battaglia for valuable discussions regarding pressure profile models and the formalism of the paper. S. P., E. B., Z. X., and J. O. S. are partially supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through Grant No. AST-1440226 for the ACT project. S. P. and E. B. are also partially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Grant No. DE-SC0007901. Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University, the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. The Collaborating Institutions are Argonne National Laboratory, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Cambridge, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas-Madrid, the University of Chicago, University College London, the DES-Brazil Consortium, the University of Edinburgh, the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (IEEC/CSIC), the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and the associated Excellence Cluster Universe, the University of Michigan, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, the University of Nottingham, The Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Portsmouth, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, the University of Sussex, Texas A&M University, and the OzDES Membership Consortium. Based in part on observations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. AST-1138766 and No. AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MINECO under Grants No. AYA2015-71825, No. ESP2015-66861, No. FPA2015-68048, No. SEV-2016-0588, No. SEV-2016-0597, and No. MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. I. F. A. E. is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC Grant Agreements No. 240672, No. 291329, and No. 306478. We acknowledge support from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) e-Universe (CNPq Grant No. 465376/2014-2). This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. The U.S. Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. S.P., E.B., Z.X., and J.O.S. are partially supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through Grant No. AST-1440226 for the ACT project.
Funders | Funder number |
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Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia | |
Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey | |
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC | DE-AC02-07CH11359 |
INCT | |
Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University | |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom | |
U.S. National Science Foundation | |
National Science Foundation | AST-1138766, AST-1440226, AST-1536171 |
U.S. Department of Energy | DE-SC0007901 |
Office of Science | |
High Energy Physics | |
Ohio State University | |
University of Chicago | |
Seventh Framework Programme | 1138766, 240672, 1440226, 306478, 291329 |
Higher Education Funding Council for England | |
Engineering Research Centers | |
European Commission | |
European Research Council | |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | |
Generalitat de Catalunya | |
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad | SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, ESP2015-66861, MDM-2015-0509, FPA2015-68048, AYA2015-71825 |
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação | |
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | 465376/2014-2 |
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro | |
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos | |
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine | |
European Regional Development Fund |