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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

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

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

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

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

Lensing Noise in mm-wave Galaxy Cluster Surveys

We study the effects of gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters of the background of dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), and examine the implications for Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-based (SZ) galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yashar Hezaveh , Keith Vanderlinde , Gilbert Holder , Tijmen de Haan

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

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

Measuring cluster masses with CMB lensing: a statistical approach

We present a method for measuring the masses of galaxy clusters using the imprint of their gravitational lensing signal on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies. The method first reconstructs the projected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jean-Baptiste Melin , James G. Bartlett

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

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

Lensing Induced Cluster Signatures in Cosmic Microwave Background

We show that clusters of galaxies induce step-like wiggles on top of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The direction of the wiggle is parallel to the large scale gradient of CMB allowing one to isolate the effect from other small scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Uros Seljak , Matias Zaldarriaga

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: tomographic cross-correlations between DES galaxies and CMB lensing from SPT+Planck

We measure the cross-correlation between redMaGiC galaxies selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-1 data and gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) reconstructed from South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Y. Omori , T. Giannantonio , A. Porredon , E. Baxter , C. Chang , M. Crocce , P. Fosalba , A. Alarcon , N. Banik , J. Blazek , L. E. Bleem , S. L. Bridle , R. Cawthon , A. Choi , R. Chown , T. Crawford , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , O. Friedrich , D. Gruen , G. P. Holder , D. Huterer , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , D. Kirk , N. Kokron , E. Krause , N. MacCrann , J. Muir , J. Prat , C. L. Reichardt , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , G. Simard , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , S. Avila , K. Aylor , B. A. Benson , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , F. Bianchini , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , A. T. Crites , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , T. de Haan , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , W. B. Everett , P. Doel , J. Estrada , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , E. M. George , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , Z. Hou , B. Hoyle , J. D. Hrubes , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lima , D. Luong-Van , A. Manzotti , D. P. Marrone , J. L. Marshall , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , S. Padin , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , J. E. Ruhl , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , K. K. Schaffer , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Shirokoff , 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 , M. A. Troxel , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. R. Walker , W. L. K. Wu , O. Zahn

CMB Cluster Lensing: Cosmography with the Longest Lever Arm

We discuss combining gravitational lensing of galaxies and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by clusters to measure cosmographic distance ratios, and hence dark energy parameters. Advantages to using the CMB as the second source plane,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wayne Hu , Daniel E. Holz , Chris Vale

Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck II: Cross-correlation measurements and cosmological constraints

Cross-correlations of galaxy positions and galaxy shears with maps of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are sensitive to the distribution of large-scale structure in the Universe. Such cross-correlations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 C. Chang , Y. Omori , E. J. Baxter , C. Doux , A. Choi , S. Pandey , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , F. Bianchini , J. Blazek , L. E. Bleem , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , J. Cordero , T. M. Crawford , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. DeRose , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , X. Fang , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , A. Kovacs , E. Krause , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , Y. Park , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , J. Sanchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , W. L. K. Wu , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , R. Chown , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , A. T. Crites , M. E. S. Pereira , T. de Haan , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , W. Everett , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. George , T. Giannantonio , N. W. Halverson , S. R. Hinton , G. P. Holder , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , D. J. James , L. Knox , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , M. Lima , D. Luong-Van , M. March , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , L. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , T. Natoli , S. Padin , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rodríguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , J. E. Ruhl , E. Sanchez , K. K. Schaffer , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , E. Shirokoff , M. Smith , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , J. D. Vieira , J. Weller , R. Williamson

First Measurement of the Cross-Correlation of CMB Lensing and Galaxy Lensing

We measure the cross-correlation of cosmic microwave background lensing convergence maps derived from Atacama Cosmology Telescope data with galaxy lensing convergence maps as measured by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Stripe 82 Survey.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Nick Hand , Alexie Leauthaud , Sudeep Das , Blake D. Sherwin , Graeme E. Addison , J. Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Aldée Charbonnier , Mark J. Devlin , Joanna Dunkley , Thomas Erben , Amir Hajian , Mark Halpern , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Adam D. Hincks , Jean-Paul Kneib , Arthur Kosowsky , Martin Makler , Lance Miller , Kavilan Moodley , Bruno Moraes , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Neelima Sehgal , Huanyuan Shan , Jonathan L. Sievers , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Eric R. Switzer , James E. Taylor , Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Charlotte Welker , Edward J. Wollack

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

Cross-Correlation study between CMB lensing and galaxy surveys

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a powerful probe to study the early universe and various cosmological models. Weak gravitational lensing affects the CMB by changing its power spectrum, but meanwhile, it also carries information about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Chandra Shekhar Saraf

CMB Lensing Power Spectrum Biases from Galaxies and Clusters using High-angular Resolution Temperature Maps

The lensing power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps will be measured with unprecedented precision with upcoming experiments, including upgrades to ACT and SPT. Achieving significant improvements in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. van Engelen , S. Bhattacharya , N. Sehgal , G. P. Holder , O. Zahn , D. Nagai

Fundamental Physics from Future Weak-Lensing Calibrated Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Cluster Counts

Future high-resolution measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) will produce catalogs of tens of thousands of galaxy clusters through the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect. We forecast how well different configurations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-01 Mathew Madhavacheril , Nicholas Battaglia , Hironao Miyatake