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Constraining the neutrino mass using a multi-tracer combination of two galaxy surveys and CMB lensing

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-01-19 v2

Abstract

Measuring the total neutrino mass is one of the most exciting opportunities available with next-generation cosmological data sets. We study the possibility of detecting the total neutrino mass using large-scale clustering in 21cm intensity mapping and photometric galaxy surveys, together with CMB information. We include the scale-dependent halo bias contribution due to the presence of massive neutrinos, and use a multi-tracer analysis in order to reduce cosmic variance. The multi-tracer combination of an SKAO-MID 21cm intensity map with Stage~4 CMB dramatically shrinks the uncertainty on total neutrino mass to σ(Mν)45\sigma(M_\nu) \simeq 45\,meV, using only linear clustering information (kmax=0.1h/k_{\rm max} = 0.1\, h/Mpc) and without a prior on optical depth. When we add to the multi-tracer the clustering information expected from LSST, the forecast is σ(Mν)12\sigma(M_\nu) \simeq 12\,meV.

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@article{arxiv.2109.03763,
  title  = {Constraining the neutrino mass using a multi-tracer combination of two galaxy surveys and CMB lensing},
  author = {Mario Ballardini and Roy Maartens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.03763},
  year   = {2022}
}

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3 figures, 3 tables, 7 pages