English

Probing the cluster pressure profile with thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect and weak lensing cross-correlation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2021-12-01 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We confront the universal pressure profile (UPP) proposed by~\citet{Arnaud10} with the recent measurement of the cross-correlation function of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect from Planck and weak gravitational lensing measurement from the Red Cluster Sequence lensing survey (RCSLenS). By using the halo model, we calculate the prediction of ξyκ\xi^{y-\kappa} (lensing convergence and Compton-yy parameter) and ξyγt\xi^{y-\gamma_{\rm t}} (lensing shear and Compton-yy parameter) and fit the UPP parameters by using the observational data. We find consistent UPP parameters when fixing the cosmology to either WMAP 9-year or Planck 2018 best-fitting values. The best constrained parameter is the pressure profile concentration c500=r500/rsc_{500}=r_{500}/r_{\rm s}, for which we find c500=2.680.96+1.46c_{500} = 2.68^{+1.46}_{-0.96} (WMAP-9) and c500=1.910.65+1.07c_{500} = 1.91^{+1.07}_{-0.65} (Planck-2018) for the ξyγt\xi^{y-\gamma_t} estimator. The shape index for the intermediate radius region α\alpha parameter is constrained to α=1.750.77+1.29\alpha=1.75^{+1.29}_{-0.77} and α=1.650.5+0.74\alpha = 1.65^{+0.74}_{-0.5} for WMAP-9 and Planck-2018 cosmologies, respectively. Propagating the uncertainties of the UPP parameters to pressure profiles results in a factor of 33 uncertainty in the shape and magnitude. Further investigation shows that most of the signal of the cross-correlation comes from the low-redshift, inner halo profile (rrvir/2r \leqslant r_{\rm vir}/2) with halo mass in the range of 101410^{14}--1015M10^{15}\,{\rm M}_{\odot}, suggesting that this is the major regime that constitutes the cross-correlation signal between weak lensing and tSZ.

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@article{arxiv.2010.15064,
  title  = {Probing the cluster pressure profile with thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect and weak lensing cross-correlation},
  author = {Yin-Zhe Ma and Yan Gong and Tilman Troster and Ludovic Van Waerbeke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15064},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

12 pages, 6 figures, accepted by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society