Cosmological lensing ratios with des Y1, SPT, and Planck

J. Prat, E. Baxter, T. Shin, C. Sánchez, C. Chang, B. Jain, R. Miquel, A. Alarcon, D. Bacon, G. M. Bernstein, R. Cawthon, T. M. Crawford, C. Davis, J. De Vicente, S. Dodelson, T. F. Eifler, O. Friedrich, M. Gatti, D. Gruen, W. G. HartleyG. P. Holder, B. Hoyle, M. Jarvis, E. Krause, N. MacCrann, B. Mawdsley, A. Nicola, Y. Omori, A. Pujol, M. M. Rau, C. L. Reichardt, S. Samuroff, E. Sheldon, M. A. Troxel, P. Vielzeuf, J. Zuntz, T. M.C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla, J. Annis, S. Avila, K. Aylor, B. A. Benson, E. Bertin, L. E. Bleem, D. Brooks, D. L. Burke, J. E. Carlstrom, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, C. L. Chang, H. M. Cho, R. Chown, A. T. Crites, C. E. Cunha, L. N. Da Costa, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, J. P. Dietrich, M. A. Dobbs, P. Doel, W. B. Everett, A. E. Evrard, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, E. M. George, D. W. Gerdes, T. Giannantonio, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, T. De Haan, N. W. Halverson, N. L. Harrington, W. L. Holzapfel, K. Honscheid, Z. Hou, J. D. Hrubes, D. J. James, T. Jeltema, L. Knox, R. Kron, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, O. Lahav, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, M. Lima, D. Luong-Van, M. A.G. Maia, A. Manzotti, D. P. Marrone, J. L. Marshall, J. J. McMahon, P. Melchior, F. Menanteau, S. S. Meyer, C. J. Miller, L. M. Mocanu, J. J. Mohr, T. Natoli, S. Padin, A. A. Plazas, C. Pryke, A. K. Romer, A. Roodman, J. E. Ruhl, E. S. Rykoff, E. Sanchez, J. T. Sayre, V. Scarpine, K. K. Schaffer, S. Serrano, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, E. Shirokoff, G. Simard, M. Smith, M. Soares-Santos, F. Sobreira, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, K. T. Story, E. Suchyta, M. E.C. Swanson, G. Tarle, D. Thomas, K. Vanderlinde, J. D. Vieira, V. Vikram, A. R. Walker, J. Weller, R. Williamson, O. Zahn

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Abstract

Correlations between tracers of the matter density field and gravitational lensing are sensitive to the evolution of the matter power spectrum and the expansion rate across cosmic time. Appropriately defined ratios of such correlation functions, on the other hand, depend only on the angular diameter distances to the tracer objects and to the gravitational lensing source planes. Because of their simple cosmological dependence, such ratios can exploit available signal-to-noise ratio down to small angular scales, even where directly modelling the correlation functions is difficult. We present a measurement of lensing ratios using galaxy position and lensing data from the Dark Energy Survey, and CMB lensing data from the South Pole Telescope and Planck, obtaining the highest precision lensing ratio measurements to date. Relative to the concordance CDM model, we find a best-fitting lensing ratio amplitude of A = 1.1 ± 0.1. We use the ratio measurements to generate cosmological constraints, focusing on the curvature parameter. We demonstrate that photometrically selected galaxies can be used to measure lensing ratios, and argue that future lensing ratio measurements with data from a combination of LSST and Stage-4 CMB experiments can be used to place interesting cosmological constraints, even after considering the systematic uncertainties associated with photometric redshift and galaxy shear estimation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1363-1379
Number of pages17
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume487
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 21 2019

Funding

The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers AST-1138766 and AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MINECO under grants AYA2015-71825, ESP2015-66861, FPA2015-68048, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. IFAE 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 240672, 291329, and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAAS-TRO), through project number CE110001020, and the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) e-Universe (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2). 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, Fundac¸ão 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 Inovac¸ão, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. 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 United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States 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.

FundersFunder number
Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia
CAAS-TROCE110001020
Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey
Fermi Research Alliance, LLCDE-AC02-07CH11359
INCT
Ministério da Ciência
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
National Science FoundationAST-1138766, AST-1536171
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Science
High Energy Physics
Ohio State University
University of Chicago
Seventh Framework Programme1138766, 240672, 306478, 291329
Higher Education Funding Council for England
European Commission
European Research Council
Australian Research Council
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Generalitat de Catalunya
Ministerio de Economía y CompetitividadSEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, ESP2015-66861, MDM-2015-0509, FPA2015-68048, AYA2015-71825
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico465376/2014-2
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

    Keywords

    • Cosmological parameters
    • Cosmology: Observations - large-scale structure of Universe
    • Gravitational lensing: weak

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