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The problem under consideration is to determine the change of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) spectral shape due to the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. We numerically model the spectral intensity of the CMB radiation Comptonized by…

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Weak-Lensing Mass Calibration of ACTPol Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Clusters with the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey

We present weak-lensing measurements using the first-year data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic Survey Program on the Subaru telescope for eight galaxy clusters selected through their thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signal measured at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Hironao Miyatake , Nicholas Battaglia , Matt Hilton , Elinor Medezinski , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Surhud More , Simone Aiola , Neta Bahcall , J. Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Steve K. Choi , Mark J. Devlin , Joanna Dunkley , Rolando Dunner , Brittany Fuzia , Patricio Gallardo , Megan Gralla , Matthew Hasselfield , Mark Halpern , Chiaki Hikage , J. Colin Hill , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Kevin Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Thibaut Louis , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Jeff McMahon , Rachel Mandelbaum , Tobias A. Marriage , Loïc Maurin , Satoshi Miyazaki , Kavilan Moodley , Ryoma Murata , Sigurd Naess , Laura Newburgh , Michael D. Niemack , Takahiro Nishimichi , Nobuhiro Okabe , Masamune Oguri , Ken Osato , Lyman Page , Bruce Partridge , Naomi Robertson , Neelima Sehgal , Masato Shirasaki , Jonathan Sievers , Cristóbal Sifón , Sara Simon , Blake Sherwin , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , George Stein , Masahiro Takada , Hy Trac , Keiichi Umetsu , Alex van Engelen , Edward J. Wollack

Delensing CMB Polarization with External Datasets

One of the primary scientific targets of current and future CMB polarization experiments is the search for a stochastic background of gravity waves in the early universe. As instrumental sensitivity improves, the limiting factor will…

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Constraints from thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts and power spectrum combined with CMB

Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect is one of the recent probes of cosmology and large scale structures. We update constraints on cosmological parameters from galaxy clusters observed by the Planck satellite in a first attempt to combine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Laura Salvati , Marian Douspis , Nabila Aghanim

First lensing measurements of SZ-discovered clusters

We present the first lensing mass measurements of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected clusters. Using optical imaging from the Southern Cosmology Survey (SCS), we present weak lensing masses for three clusters selected by their SZ emission in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rachel N. McInnes , Felipe Menanteau , Alan F. Heavens , John P. Hughes , Raul Jimenez , Richard Massey , Patrick Simon , Andy N. Taylor

Taking measurements of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect forward: including uncertainties from velocity reconstruction with forward modeling

We measure the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, imprinted by maxBCG clusters, on the Planck SMICA map of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Our measurement, for the first time, directly accounts for uncertainties in the…

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Constraining Inflation with Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

Observations of the polarization of the cosmic microwave backround (CMB) have the potential to place much tighter constraints on cosmological parameters than observations of the fluctuations in temperature alone. We discuss using CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 William H. Kinney

Probing gravity with a joint analysis of galaxy and CMB lensing and SDSS spectroscopy

We present measurements of $E_G$, a probe of gravity from large-scale structure, using BOSS LOWZ and CMASS spectroscopic samples, with lensing measurements from SDSS (galaxy lensing) and Planck (CMB lensing). Using SDSS lensing and the BOSS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-16 Sukhdeep Singh , Shadab Alam , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Sergio Rodriguez-Torres , Shirley Ho

Cosmology and astrophysics from relaxed galaxy clusters - IV: Robustly calibrating hydrostatic masses with weak lensing

This is the fourth in a series of papers studying the astrophysics and cosmology of massive, dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters. Here, we use measurements of weak gravitational lensing from the Weighing the Giants project to calibrate…

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Skewing the CMB$\times$LSS: a Fast Method for Bispectrum Analysis

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing measurements and tomographic galaxy surveys are expected to provide us with high-precision data sets in the coming years, thus paving the way for fruitful cross-correlation analyses. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Priyesh Chakraborty , Shu-Fan Chen , Cora Dvorkin

Cosmological lensing ratios with DES Y1, SPT and Planck

Correlations between tracers of the matter density field and gravitational lensing are sensitive to the evolution of the matter power spectrum and the expansion rate across cosmic time. Appropriately defined ratios of such correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-26 J. Prat , E. J. Baxter , T. Shin , C. Sánchez , C. Chang , B. Jain , R. Miquel , A. Alarcon , D. Bacon , G. M. Bernstein , R. Cawthon , T. M. Crawford , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Dodelson , T. F. Eifler , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , D. Gruen , W. G. Hartley , G. P. Holder , B. Hoyle , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , N. MacCrann , B. Mawdsley , A. Nicola , Y. Omori , A. Pujol , M. M. Rau , C. L. Reichardt , S. Samuroff , E. Sheldon , M. A. Troxel , P. Vielzeuf , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , J. Annis , S. Avila , K. Aylor , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , L. E. Bleem , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , R. Chown , A. T. Crites , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , W. B. Everett , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. George , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , T. de Haan , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , L. Knox , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lima , D. Luong-Van , M. A. G. Maia , A. Manzotti , D. P. Marrone , J. L. Marshall , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , C. J. Miller , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , S. Padin , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , J. E. Ruhl , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , J. T. Sayre , V. Scarpine , K. K. Schaffer , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Shirokoff , G. Simard , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , R. Williamson , O. Zahn

Planck 2018 results. VII. Isotropy and Statistics of the CMB

Analysis of the Planck 2018 data set indicates that the statistical properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies are in excellent agreement with previous studies using the 2013 and 2015 data releases. In…

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Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing Power Spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment

Gravitational lensing due to the large-scale distribution of matter in the cosmos distorts the primordial Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and thereby induces new, small-scale $B$-mode polarization. This signal carries detailed information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-16 POLARBEAR Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , A. E. Anthony , K. Arnold , M. Atlas , D. Barron , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , M. Dobbs , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , D. Flanigan , A. Gilbert , W. Grainger , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , Y. Hori , J. Howard , P. Hyland , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. Jaffe , B. Keating , Z. Kermish , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. Linder , E. M. Leitch , M. Lungu , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , X. Meng , N. J. Miller , H. Morii , S. Moyerman , M. J. Myers , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , H. Paar , J. Peloton , E. Quealy , G. Rebeiz , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , I. Schanning , D. E. Schenck , B. Sherwin , A. Shimizu , C. Shimmin , M. Shimon , P. Siritanasak , G. Smecher , H. Spieler , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , S. Takakura , T. Tomaru , B. Wilson , A. Yadav , O. Zahn

Filtering techniques for the detection of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich clusters in multifrequency CMB maps

The problem of detecting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) clusters in multifrequency CMB observations is investigated using a number of filtering techniques. A multifilter approach is introduced, which optimizes the detection of SZ clusters on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Herranz , J. L. Sanz , M. P. Hobson , R. B. Barreiro , J. M. Diego , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , A. N. Lasenby

A Measurement of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background Using SPT-3G 2018 Data

We present a measurement of gravitational lensing over 1500 deg$^2$ of the Southern sky using SPT-3G temperature data at 95 and 150 GHz taken in 2018. The lensing amplitude relative to a fiducial Planck 2018 $\Lambda$CDM cosmology is found…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-31 Z. Pan , F. Bianchini , W. L. K. Wu , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , E. Anderes , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , K. Aylor , L. Balkenhol , P. S. Barry , R. Basu Thakur , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , K. Byrum , E. Camphuis , J. E. Carlstrom , F. W. Carter , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , G. Chen , P. M. Chichura , H. -M. Cho , T. -L. Chou , J. -F. Cliche , A. Coerver , T. M. Crawford , A. Cukierman , C. Daley , T. de Haan , E. V. Denison , K. R. Dibert , J. Ding , M. A. Dobbs , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , K. Fichman , A. Foster , J. Fu , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , F. Ge , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , A. H. Harke-Hosemann , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , D. Howe , N. Huang , K. D. Irwin , O. Jeong , M. Jonas , A. Jones , F. Kéruzoré , T. S. Khaire , L. Knox , A. M. Kofman , M. Korman , D. L. Kubik , S. Kuhlmann , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , K. Levy , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , A. Maniyar , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , D. Michalik , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , P. Paschos , J. Pearson , C. M. Posada , K. Prabhu , W. Quan , S. Raghunathan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , D. Riebel , B. Riedel , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , E. Schiappucci , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , K. T. Story , A. Suzuki , S. Takakura , C. Tandoi , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Tucker , C. Umilta , L. R. Vale , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski

Simulating weak lensing on CMB maps

We present a fast, arbitrarily accurate method to simulate the effect of gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies and polarization fields by large scale structures. We demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-12 S. Basak , S. Prunet , K. Benabed

The galaxy cluster mass scale and its impact on cosmological constraints from the cluster population

The total mass of a galaxy cluster is one of its most fundamental properties. Together with the redshift, the mass links observation and theory, allowing us to use the cluster population to test models of structure formation and to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-04 G. W. Pratt , M. Arnaud , A. Biviano , D. Eckert , S. Ettori , D. Nagai , N. Okabe , T. H. Reiprich

Future cosmic microwave background delensing with galaxy surveys

The primordial B-modes component of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is a promising experimental dataset to probe the inflationary paradigm. B-modes are indeed a direct consequence of the presence of gravitational waves in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Alessandro Manzotti

Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Survey Simulations for Planck

We examine the ability of the future Planck mission to provide a catalogue of galaxy clusters observed via their SZ distortion in the cosmic microwave background. For this purpose we produce full-sky SZ maps based on N-body simulations and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joern Geisbuesch , Ruediger Kneissl , Michael Hobson

Multiple Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies

We study the gravitational lensing effect on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies performing a ray-tracing of the primordial CMB photons through intervening large-scale structures (LSS) distribution predicted by N-Body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-09 Matteo Calabrese , Carmelita Carbone , Giulio Fabbian , Marco Baldi , Carlo Baccigalupi