English

The mass and galaxy distribution around SZ-selected clusters

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2021-09-15 v1

Abstract

We present measurements of the radial profiles of the mass and galaxy number density around Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected clusters using both weak lensing and galaxy counts. The clusters are selected from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 5 and the galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 dataset. With signal-to-noise of 62 (43) for galaxy (weak lensing) profiles over scales of about 0.220h10.2-20h^{-1} Mpc, these are the highest precision measurements for SZ-selected clusters to date. Because SZ selection closely approximates mass selection, these measurements enable several tests of theoretical models of the mass and light distribution around clusters. Our main findings are: 1. The splashback feature is detected at a consistent location in both the mass and galaxy profiles and its location is consistent with predictions of cold dark matter N-body simulations. 2. The full mass profile is also consistent with the simulations; hence it can constrain alternative dark matter models that modify the mass distribution of clusters. 3. The shapes of the galaxy and lensing profiles are remarkably similar for our sample over the entire range of scales, from well inside the cluster halo to the quasilinear regime. This can be used to constrain processes such as quenching and tidal disruption that alter the galaxy distribution inside the halo, and scale-dependent features in the transition regime outside the halo. We measure the dependence of the profile shapes on the galaxy sample, redshift and cluster mass. We extend the Diemer \& Kravtsov model for the cluster profiles to the linear regime using perturbation theory and show that it provides a good match to the measured profiles. We also compare the measured profiles to predictions of the standard halo model and simulations that include hydrodynamics. Applications of these results to cluster mass estimation and cosmology are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2105.05914,
  title  = {The mass and galaxy distribution around SZ-selected clusters},
  author = {T. Shin and B. Jain and S. Adhikari and E. J. Baxter and C. Chang and S. Pandey and A. Salcedo and D. H. Weinberg and A. Amsellem and N. Battaglia and M. Belyakov and T. Dacunha and S. Goldstein and A. V. Kravtsov and T. N. Varga and T. M. C. Abbott and M. Aguena and A. Alarcon and S. Allam and A. Amon and F. Andrade-Oliveira and J. Annis and D. Bacon and K. Bechtol and M. R. Becker and G. M. Bernstein and E. Bertin and S. Bocquet and J. R. Bond and D. Brooks and E. Buckley-Geer and D. L. Burke and A. Campos and A. Carnero Rosell and M. Carrasco Kind and J. Carretero and R. Chen and A. Choi and M. Costanzi and L. N. da Costa and J. DeRose and S. Desai and J. De Vicente and M. J. Devlin and H. T. Diehl and J. P. Dietrich and S. Dodelson and P. Doel and C. Doux and A. Drlica-Wagner and K. Eckert and J. Elvin-Poole and S. Everett and S. Ferraro and I. Ferrero and A. Ferté and B. Flaugher and J. Frieman and P. A. Gallardo and M. Gatti and E. Gaztanaga and D. W. Gerdes and D. Gruen and R. A. Gruendl and G. Gutierrez and I. Harrison and W. G. Hartley and J. C. Hill and M. Hilton and S. R. Hinton and D. L. Hollowood and J. P. Hughes and D. J. James and M. Jarvis and T. Jeltema and B. J. Koopman and E. Krause and K. Kuehn and N. Kuropatkin and O. Lahav and M. Lima and M. Lokken and N. MacCrann and M. S. Madhavacheril and M. A. G. Maia and J. McCullough and J. McMahon and P. Melchior and F. Menanteau and R. Miquel and J. J. Mohr and K. Moodley and R. Morgan and J. Myles and F. Nati and A. Navarro-Alsina and M. D. Niemack and R. L. C. Ogando and L. A. Page and A. Palmese and B. Partridge and F. Paz-Chinchón and M. E. S. Pereira and A. Pieres and A. A. Plazas Malagón and J. Prat and M. Raveri and M. Rodriguez-Monroy and R. P. Rollins and A. K. Romer and E. S. Rykoff and M. Salatino and C. Sánchez and E. Sanchez and B. Santiago and V. Scarpine and A. Schillaci and L. F. Secco and S. Serrano and I. Sevilla-Noarbe and E. Sheldon and B. D. Sherwin and C. Sifón and M. Smith and M. Soares-Santos and S. T. Staggs and E. Suchyta and M. E. C. Swanson and G. Tarle and D. Thomas and C. To and M. A. Troxel and I. Tutusaus and E. M. Vavagiakis and J. Weller and E. J. Wollack and B. Yanny and B. Yin and Y. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.05914},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures (main) + 3 pages, 6 figures (appendix), submitted to MNRAS

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