Cosmological shocks around galaxy clusters: a coherent investigation with DES, SPT, and ACT

D. Anbajagane, C. Chang, E. J. Baxter, S. Charney, M. Lokken, M. Aguena, S. Allam, O. Alves, A. Amon, R. An, F. Andrade-Oliveira, D. Bacon, N. Battaglia, K. Bechtol, M. R. Becker, B. A. Benson, G. M. Bernstein, L. Bleem, S. Bocquet, J. R. BondD. Brooks, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, R. Chen, A. Choi, M. Costanzi, T. M. Crawford, M. Crocce, L. N. da Costa, M. E.S. Pereira, T. M. Davis, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, M. J. Devlin, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, C. Doux, A. Drlica-Wagner, J. Elvin-Poole, I. Ferrero, A. Ferté, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, D. Friedel, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, M. Gatti, G. Giannini, S. Grandis, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, G. Gutierrez, I. Harrison, J. C. Hill, M. Hilton, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, B. Jain, D. J. James, M. Jarvis, K. Kuehn, M. Lin, N. MacCrann, J. L. Marshall, J. McCullough, J. J. McMahon, J. Mena-Fernández, F. Menanteau, R. Miquel, K. Moodley, T. Mroczkowski, J. Myles, S. Naess, A. Navarro-Alsina, R. L.C. Ogando, L. A. Page, A. Palmese, S. Pandey, B. Patridge, A. Pieres, A. A. Plazas Malagón, A. Porredon, J. Prat, C. Reichardt, K. Reil, M. Rodriguez-Monroy, R. P. Rollins, A. K. Romer, E. S. Rykoff, E. Sanchez, C. Sánchez, D. Sanchez Cid, E. Schaan, M. Schubnell, L. F. Secco, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, E. Sheldon, T. Shin, C. Sifón, M. Smith, S. T. Staggs, E. Suchyta, M. E.C. Swanson, G. Tarle, C. To, M. A. Troxel, I. Tutusaus, E. M. Vavagiakis, N. Weaverdyck, J. Weller, P. Wiseman, E. J. Wollack, B. Yanny

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Abstract

We search for signatures of cosmological shocks in gas pressure profiles of galaxy clusters using the cluster catalogues from three surveys: the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3, the South Pole Telescope (SPT) SZ survey, and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) data releases 4, 5, and 6, and using thermal Sunyaev–Zeldovich (SZ) maps from SPT and ACT. The combined cluster sample contains around 105 clusters with mass and redshift ranges 1013.7 < M200m/M < 1015.5 and 0.1 < z < 2, and the total sky coverage of the maps is ≈ 15 000 deg2. We find a clear pressure deficit at R/R200m ≈ 1.1 in SZ profiles around both ACT and SPT clusters, estimated at 6σ significance, which is qualitatively consistent with a shock-induced thermal non-equilibrium between electrons and ions. The feature is not as clearly determined in profiles around DES clusters. We verify that measurements using SPT or ACT maps are consistent across all scales, including in the deficit feature. The SZ profiles of optically selected and SZ-selected clusters are also consistent for higher mass clusters. Those of less massive, optically selected clusters are suppressed on small scales by factors of 2–5 compared to predictions, and we discuss possible interpretations of this behaviour. An oriented stacking of clusters – where the orientation is inferred from the SZ image, the brightest cluster galaxy, or the surrounding large-scale structure measured using galaxy catalogues – shows the normalization of the one-halo and two-halo terms vary with orientation. Finally, the location of the pressure deficit feature is statistically consistent with existing estimates of the splashback radius.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9378-9404
Number of pages27
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume527
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2024

Funding

The SPT programme is supported by the NSF through the grant no. OPP-1852617. Partial support is also provided by the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. Support for ACT was through the U.S. NSF through awards AST-0408698, AST-0965625, and AST-1440226 for the ACT project, as well as awards PHY-0355328, PHY-0855887 and PHY-1214379. Funding was also provided by Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) award to UBC. ACT operated in the Parque Astronómico Atacama in northern Chile under the auspices of the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID). The development of multichroic detectors and lenses was supported by NASA grants NNX13AE56G and NNX14AB58G. Detector research at NIST was supported by the NIST Innovations in Measurement Science programme. Computing for ACT was performed using the Princeton Research Computing resources at Princeton University, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), and the Niagara supercomputer at the SciNet HPC Consortium. SciNet is funded by the CFI under the auspices of Compute Canada, the Government of Ontario, the Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence, and the University of Toronto. We thank the Republic of Chile for hosting ACT in the northern Atacama, and the local indigenous Licanantay communities whom we follow in observing and learning from the night sky. Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. NSF, 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 DES data management system is supported by the NSF under Grant Numbers AST-1138766 and AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MICINN under grants ESP2017-89838,PGC2018-094773, PGC2018-102021, 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 programme 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 Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) do e-Universo (CNPq grant 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. DA is supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) grant no. 2108168. CC is supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and DOE grant DE-SC0021949. MHi acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of South Africa (grant no. 137975). KM acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. CS acknowledges support from the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID) through FONDECYT grant no. 11191125 and BASAL project FB210003. JCH acknowledges support from NSF grant AST-2108536, NASA grants 21-ATP21-0129 and 22-ADAP22-0145, the Sloan Foundation, and the Simons Foundation.

FundersFunder number
Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia
Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey
Fermi Research Alliance, LLCDE-AC02-07CH11359
Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University
NIST Innovations in Measurement Science programme
Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence
Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom
National Science FoundationAST-1138766, AST-1440226, PHY-1214379, OPP-1852617, AST-0965625, AST-1536171, AST-0408698, PHY-0855887, 2108168, PHY-0355328
U.S. Department of EnergyDE-SC0021949
National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNNX13AE56G, NNX14AB58G, 21-ATP21-0129, 22-ADAP22-0145
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Simons Foundation
Henry Luce Foundation
Office of Science
High Energy Physics
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Ohio State University
University of Chicago
National Centre for Supercomputing Applications
Seventh Framework Programme
Higher Education Funding Council for England
Government of Ontario
Engineering Research Centers240672, 306478, 291329
Canada Foundation for Innovation
European Commission
European Research Council
National Research Foundation137975
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Generalitat de Catalunya
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y TecnológicoFB210003, AST-2108536, 11191125
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
University of Toronto
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
Ministerio de Ciencia e InnovaciónSEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, MDM-2015-0509, PGC2018-094773, PGC2018-102021, ESP2017-89838
Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia para Excitotoxicidade e Neuroproteção
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
European Regional Development Fund
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo

    Keywords

    • galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium – large-scale structure of Universe

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