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Measuring cluster masses with Planck and SPT-SZ CMB lensing

Galaxy cluster masses help to constrain cosmological parameters through the halo mass function. To get rid of major biases in the mass measurement, we directly probe the cluster gravitational potentials by observing their gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 Alexandre Huchet

A Measurement of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Galaxy Clusters Using Data from the South Pole Telescope

Clusters of galaxies are expected to gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and thereby generate a distinct signal in the CMB on arcminute scales. Measurements of this effect can be used to constrain the masses of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-25 E. J. Baxter , R. Keisler , S. Dodelson , K. A. Aird , S. W. Allen , M. L. N. Ashby , M. Bautz , M. Bayliss , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , S. Bocquet , M. Brodwin , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , I. Chiu , H-M. Cho , A. Clocchiatti , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , R. J. Foley , W. R. Forman , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , A. H. Gonzalez , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , C. Hennig , H. Hoekstra , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , C. Jones , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , J. Liu , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , A. Mantz , D. P. Marrone , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , L. M. Mocanu , S. S. Murray , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , A. Saro , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , J. Song , H. G. Spieler , B. Stalder , S. A. Stanford , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , A. van Engelen , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , R. Williamson , O. Zahn , A. Zenteno

Quantifying the statistics of CMB-lensing-derived galaxy cluster mass measurements with simulations

CMB lensing is a promising, novel way to measure galaxy cluster masses that can be used, e.g., for mass calibration in galaxy cluster counts analyses. Understanding the statistics of the galaxy cluster mass observable obtained with such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Íñigo Zubeldia , Anthony Challinor

Measuring galaxy cluster masses with CMB lensing using a Maximum Likelihood estimator: Statistical and systematic error budgets for future experiments

We develop a Maximum Likelihood estimator (MLE) to measure the masses of galaxy clusters through the impact of gravitational lensing on the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We show that, at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-29 Srinivasan Raghunathan , Sanjaykumar Patil , Eric J. Baxter , Federico Bianchini , Lindsey E. Bleem , Thomas M. Crawford , Gilbert P. Holder , Alessandro Manzotti , Christian L. Reichardt

A Measurement of CMB Cluster Lensing with SPT and DES Year 1 Data

Clusters of galaxies gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, resulting in a distinct imprint in the CMB on arcminute scales. Measurement of this effect offers a promising way to constrain the masses of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 E. J. Baxter , S. Raghunathan , T. M. Crawford , P. Fosalba , Z. Hou , G. P. Holder , Y. Omori , S. Patil , E. Rozo , T. M. C. Abbott , J. Annis , K. Aylor , A. Benoit-Lévy , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , L. Bleem , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , A. T. Crites , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. B. D'Andrea , C. Davis , T. de Haan , S. Desai , M. A. Dobbs , S. Dodelson , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Estrada , W. B. Everett , A. Fausti Neto , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. M. George , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , W. G. Hartley , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , L. Knox , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , T. S. Li , M. Lima , D. Luong-Van , A. Manzotti , M. March , D. P. Marrone , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , B. Nord , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Padin , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , D. Rapetti , C. L. Reichardt , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , J. E. Ruhl , E. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , J. T. Sayre , V. Scarpine , K. K. Schaffer , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Shirokoff , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Z. Staniszewski , A. Stark , K. Story , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. R. Walker , R. Williamson , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Weighing distant clusters with the most ancient light

We use gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to measure the mass of the most distant blindly-selected sample of galaxy clusters on which a lensing measurement has been performed to date. In CMB data from the the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Cristóbal Sifón , Nicholas Battaglia , Simone Aiola , Stefania Amodeo , Jason E. Austermann , James A. Beall , Daniel T. Becker , J. Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Steve K. Choi , Edward V. Denison , Mark J. Devlin , Simon R. Dicker , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Simone Ferraro , Patricio A. Gallardo , Yilun Guan , Dongwon Han , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Brian J. Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Jeff Van Lanen , Eunseong Lee , Thibaut Louis , Amanda MacInnis , Jeffrey McMahon , Kavilan Moodley , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Frank J. Qu , Naomi C. Robertson , Maria Salatino , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Sara M. Simon , David N. Spergel , Suzanne Staggs , Emilie R. Storer , Joel N. Ullom , Leila R. Vale , Alexander van Engelen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

CMB-Cluster Lensing

Clusters of galaxies are powerful cosmological probes, particularly if their masses can be determined. One possibility for mass determination is to study the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on small angular scales and observe deviations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott Dodelson

Cosmological constraints from Planck galaxy clusters with CMB lensing mass bias calibration

We present a new cosmological analysis of the galaxy clusters in the Planck MMF3 cosmology sample with a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing calibration of the cluster masses. As demonstrated by Planck, galaxy clusters detected via…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Íñigo Zubeldia , Anthony Challinor

Cluster Masses from CMB and Galaxy Weak Lensing

Gravitational lensing can be used to directly constrain the projected density profile of galaxy clusters. We discuss possible future constraints from lensing of the CMB temperature and polarization, and compare to results from galaxy weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antony Lewis , Lindsay King

A Foreground-Immune CMB-Cluster Lensing Estimator

Galaxy clusters induce a distinct dipole pattern in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) through the effect of gravitational lensing. Extracting this lensing signal will enable us to constrain cluster masses, even for high redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-14 Kevin Levy , Srinivasan Raghunathan , Kaustuv Basu

A measurement of cluster masses using Planck and SPT-SZ CMB lensing

We used an unbiased CMB lensing mass estimator on 468 SPT-SZ clusters from the SPT-SZ and the Planck public data, the first such estimation using combined ground- and space-based data. We measured the average ratio between CMB lensing and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Alexandre Huchet , Jean-Baptiste Melin

Improving cosmological constraints from galaxy cluster number counts with CMB-cluster-lensing data: Results from the SPT-SZ survey and forecasts for the future

We show the improvement to cosmological constraints from galaxy cluster surveys with the addition of CMB-cluster lensing data. We explore the cosmological implications of adding mass information from the 3.1$\sigma$ detection of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 P. S. Chaubal , C. L. Reichardt , N. Gupta , B. Ansarinejad , K. Aylor , L. Balkenhol , E. J. Baxter , F. Bianchini , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , S. Bocquet , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. B. Everett , B. Floyd , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , S. Padin , C. Pryke , J. E. Ruhl , F. Ruppin , L. Salvati , A. Saro , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson

Reconstructing Small Scale Lenses from the Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature Fluctuations

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in the Universe. The standard quadratic estimator, which is typically used to measure the lensing signal, is known to be suboptimal for low-noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-26 Benjamin Horowitz , Simone Ferraro , Blake D. Sherwin

A CMB lensing analysis of the extended mass distribution of clusters

The aim of this work is to study the anisotropic weak lensing signal associated with the mass distribution of massive clusters of galaxies using the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data. For this purpose, we stack patches of the Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-09 Facundo Toscano , Heliana Luparello , Elizabeth Johana Gonzalez , Diego Garcia Lambas

A Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol

We report the first detection of gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters using only the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The lensing signal is obtained using a new estimator that extracts the lensing dipole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 S. Raghunathan , S. Patil , E. Baxter , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , T. M. Crawford , G. P. Holder , T. McClintock , C. L. Reichardt , T. N. Varga , N. Whitehorn , P. A. R. Ade , S. Allam , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , S. Avila , J. S. Avva , D. Bacon , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , F. Bianchini , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , R. Citron , M. Costanzi , A. T. Crites , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , C. Feng , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Gallicchio , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. George , T. Giannantonio , A. Gilbert , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , T. de Haan , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , T. Jeltema , M. Carrasco Kind , L. Knox , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , D. Li , M. Lima , A. Lowitz , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , J. Montgomery , C. Corbett Moran , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. Noble , V. Novosad , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Padin , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , D. Rapetti , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , A. Carnero Rosell , E. Rozo , J. E. Ruhl , E. S. Rykoff , B. R. Saliwanchik , E. Sanchez , J. T. Sayre , V. Scarpine , K. K. Schaffer , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , T. Veach , J. De Vicente , J. D. Vieira , V. Vikram , G. Wang , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , Y. Zhang

Distances and Cosmology From Galaxy Cluster CMB Data

The measurement of angular diameter distance to galaxy clusters, through combined Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect data with X-ray emission observations, is now a well-known probe of cosmology. Using a combination of SZ data and a map of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asantha Cooray

Measuring Distance Ratios with CMB-Galaxy Lensing Cross-correlations

We propose a method for cosmographic measurements by combining gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with cosmic shear surveys. We cross-correlate the galaxy counts in the lens plane with two different source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-26 Sudeep Das , David N. Spergel

Cosmology with the SZ spectrum: measuring the Universe's temperature with galaxy clusters

The hot gas in clusters of galaxies creates a distinctive spectral distortion in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The spectral signature of the SZ can be used to measure the CMB temperature at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Gemma Luzzi , Emanuele D'Angelo , Hervé Bourdin , Federico De Luca , Pasquale Mazzotta , Filippo Oppizzi , Gianluca Polenta

Mass Calibration of Optically Selected DES clusters using a Measurement of CMB-Cluster Lensing with SPTpol Data

We use cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from the 500 deg$^{2}$ SPTpol survey to measure the stacked lensing convergence of galaxy clusters from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 redMaPPer (RM) cluster catalog. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-21 S. Raghunathan , S. Patil , E. Baxter , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , T. L. Chou , T. M. Crawford , G. P. Holder , T. McClintock , C. L. Reichardt , E. Rozo , T. N. Varga , T. M. C. Abbott , P. A. R. Ade , S. Allam , A. J. Anderson , J. Annis , J. E. Austermann , S. Avila , J. A. Beall , K. Bechtol , A. N. Bender , G. Bernstein , E. Bertin , F. Bianchini , L. Bleem , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , H-M. Cho , R. Citron , A. T. Crites , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , W. Everett , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Gallicchio , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , R. A. Gruendl , D. Gruen , J. Gschwend , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , T. de Haan , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , W. G. Hartley , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , Z. Hou , B. Hoyle , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , A. G. Kim , M. Carrasco Kind , L. Knox , A. Kovacs , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , A. T. Lee , M. Lima , T. S. Li , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , L. Mocanu , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , V. Novosad , S. Padin , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , D. Rapetti , A. K. Romer , A. Carnero Rosell , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , E. Sanchez , J. T. Sayre , V. Scarpine , K. K. Schaffer , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , G. Smecher , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. De Vicente , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , Y. Zhang

Cosmology with the Planck cluster sample

It has been long recognised that, besides being a formidable experiment to observe the primordial CMB anisotropies, Planck will also have the capability to detect galaxy clusters via their SZ imprint. In this paper constraints on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joern Geisbuesch , Michael Hobson