English

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Clusters are Consistent with Planck

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-10-09 v1

Abstract

The recent Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES-Y1) analysis of galaxy cluster abundances and weak lensing produced Ωm\Omega_{\rm m} and σ8\sigma_8 constraints in 5.6σ\sigma tension with Planck. It is suggested in that work that this tension is driven by unmodelled systematics in optical cluster selection. We present a novel simulation-based forward modeling framework that explicitly incorporates cluster selection into its model predictions. Applying this framework to the DES-Y1 data we find consistency with Planck, resolving the tension found in the DES-Y1 analysis. An extension of this approach to the final DES data set will produce robust constraints on Λ\LambdaCDM parameters and correspondingly strong tests of cosmological models.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2310.03944,
  title  = {Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Clusters are Consistent with Planck},
  author = {Andrés N. Salcedo and Hao-Yi Wu and Eduardo Rozo and David H. Weinberg and Chun-Hao To and Tomomi Sunayama and Andy Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03944},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, Supplemental material with 2 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Letters

R2 v1 2026-06-28T12:42:09.825Z