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 ξy−κ (lensing convergence and Compton-y parameter) and ξy−γt (lensing shear and Compton-y 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/rs, for which we find c500=2.68−0.96+1.46 (WMAP-9) and c500=1.91−0.65+1.07 (Planck-2018) for the ξy−γt estimator. The shape index for the intermediate radius region α parameter is constrained to α=1.75−0.77+1.29 and α=1.65−0.5+0.74 for WMAP-9 and Planck-2018 cosmologies, respectively. Propagating the uncertainties of the UPP parameters to pressure profiles results in a factor of 3 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 (r⩽rvir/2) with halo mass in the range of 1014--1015M⊙, suggesting that this is the major regime that constitutes the cross-correlation signal between weak lensing and tSZ.
@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