Cross-correlation of Dark Energy Survey Year 3 lensing data with ACT and Planck thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect observations. II. Modeling and constraints on halo pressure profiles

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Abstract

Hot, ionized gas leaves an imprint on the cosmic microwave background via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect. The cross-correlation of gravitational lensing (which traces the projected mass) with the tSZ effect (which traces the projected gas pressure) is a powerful probe of the thermal state of ionized baryons throughout the Universe and is sensitive to effects such as baryonic feedback. In a companion paper (Gatti et al. Phys. Rev. D 105, 123525 (2022)PRVDAQ2470-0010), we present tomographic measurements and validation tests of the cross-correlation between Galaxy shear measurements from the first three years of observations of the Dark Energy Survey and tSZ measurements from a combination of Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Planck observations. In this work, we use the same measurements to constrain models for the pressure profiles of halos across a wide range of halo mass and redshift. We find evidence for reduced pressure in low-mass halos, consistent with predictions for the effects of feedback from active Galactic nuclei. We infer the hydrostatic mass bias (BM500c/MSZ) from our measurements, finding B=1.8±0.1 when adopting the Planck-preferred cosmological parameters. We additionally find that our measurements are consistent with a nonzero redshift evolution of B, with the correct sign and sufficient magnitude to explain the mass bias necessary to reconcile cluster count measurements with the Planck-preferred cosmology. Our analysis introduces a model for the impact of intrinsic alignments (IAs) of galaxy shapes on the shear-tSZ correlation. We show that IA can have a significant impact on these correlations at current noise levels.

Original languageEnglish
Article number123526
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume105
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 15 2022

Funding

This paper has gone through internal review by the DES and ACT Collaborations. S. P. is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy Award No. DE-SC0007901 and NASA ATP Grant No. NNH17ZDA001N. E. S. is supported by DOE Award No. DE-AC02-98CH10886. K. M. acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Z. X. is supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. J. P. H. acknowledges funding for SZ cluster studies from NSF AAG No. AST-1615657. A. D. H. acknowledges support from the Sutton Family Chair in Science, Christianity, and Cultures. C. S. acknowledges support from the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID) under FONDECYT Grant No. 11191125. Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, Higher Education Funding Council for England, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at The Ohio State University, 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 Tecnológic and the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the collaborating institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. The collaborating institutions are Argonne National Laboratory, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Cambridge, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas-Madrid, University of Chicago, University College London, the DES-Brazil Consortium, University of Edinburgh, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (IEEC/CSIC), Institut de Física d’Altes Energies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and the associated Excellence Cluster Universe, University of Michigan, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, University of Nottingham, The Ohio State University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Portsmouth, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, University of Sussex, Texas A&M University, and the OzDES Membership Consortium. Based in part on observations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory at NSF’s NOIRLab (NOIRLab Prop. ID 2012B-0001; PI: J. Frieman), which is managed 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 coauthored by employees of 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. Support for ACT was through the U.S. National Science Foundation through Grants No. AST-0408698, No. AST-0965625, and No. AST-1440226 for the ACT project, as well as Grants No. PHY-0355328, No. PHY-0855887, and No. PHY-1214379. Funding was also provided by Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) award to UBC. ACT operates in the Parque Astron’omico Atacama in northern Chile under the auspices of the Agencia Nacional de Investigaci’on y Desarrollo (ANID). The development of multichroic detectors and lenses was supported by NASA Grants No. NNX13AE56G and No. NNX14AB58G. Detector research at N. I. S. T. was supported by the NIST Innovations in Measurement Science program.

FundersFunder number
Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia
Fermi Research Alliance, LLCDE-AC02-07CH11359
Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom
Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University
National Science FoundationAST-1138766, AST-1615657, AST-1536171
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of EnergyDE-AC02-98CH10886, DE-SC0007901
U.S. Department of Energy
National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNNH17ZDA001N
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Office of Science
High Energy PhysicsAST-1440226, PHY-1214379, AST-0965625, AST-0408698, PHY-0855887, PHY-0355328
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
Engineering Research Centers240672, 306478, 291329
Engineering Research Centers
Canada Foundation for InnovationNNX13AE56G, NNX14AB58G
Canada Foundation for Innovation
European Commission
European Research Council
National Research Foundation
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft2012B-0001
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Generalitat de Catalunya
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico11191125
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico
Ministerio de Economía y CompetitividadSEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, ESP2015-66861, MDM-2015-0509, FPA2015-68048, AYA2015-71825
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico465376/2014-2
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia para Excitotoxicidade e Neuroproteção
European Regional Development Fund
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo

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