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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 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

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

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

Imprints of gravitational lensing in the Planck CMB data at the location of WISExSCOS galaxies

We detect weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at the location of the WISExSCOS (WxS) galaxies using the publicly available Planck lensing convergence map. By stacking the lensing convergence map at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Srinivasan Raghunathan , Federico Bianchini , Christian L. Reichardt

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

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

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

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: $B$-mode delensing with DR6 data and external tracers of large-scale structure

Large-scale $B$-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a prime target for current and future experiments in search of primordial gravitational waves (PGW). With increasingly sensitive instruments being deployed,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Emilie Hertig , Antón Baleato Lizancos , Frank J. Qu , J. Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Anthony Challinor , Mark J. Devlin , Jo Dunkley , Thibaut Louis , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Toshiya Namikawa , Lyman A. Page , Neelima Sehgal , Blake Sherwin , Cristóbal Sifón , Suzanne T. Staggs , Edward J. Wollack

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

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

Masses of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters Detected by The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Stacked Lensing Measurements with Subaru HSC Year 3 data

We present a stacked lensing analysis of 96 galaxy clusters selected by the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We select foreground galaxy clusters with a $5\sigma$-level SZ threshold in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Masato Shirasaki , Cristóbal Sifón , Hironao Miyatake , Erwin Lau , Zhuowen Zhang , Neta Bahcall , Mark Devlin , Jo Dunkley , Arya Farahi , Matt Hilton , Yen-Ting Lin , Daisuke Nagai , Suzanne T. Staggs , Tomomi Sunayama , David Spergel , 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

CCCP and MENeaCS: (updated) weak-lensing masses for 100 galaxy clusters

Large area surveys have detected significant samples of galaxy clusters that can be used to constrain cosmological parameters, provided that the masses of the clusters are measured robustly. To improve the calibration of cluster masses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Ricardo Herbonnet , Cristóbal Sifón , Henk Hoekstra , Yannick Bahé , Remco F. J. van der Burg , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Anja von der Linden , David Sand , Scott Kay , David Barnes

A measurement of gravitational lensing of the microwave background using South Pole Telescope data

We use South Pole Telescope data from 2008 and 2009 to detect the non-Gaussian signature in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) produced by gravitational lensing and to measure the power spectrum of the projected gravitational potential.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. van Engelen , R. Keisler , O. Zahn , K. A. Aird , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , J. Dudley , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , M. Joy , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , T. Natoli , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Story , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson

Strong detection of the CMB lensingxgalaxy weak lensingcross-correlation from ACT-DR4,PlanckLegacy and KiDS-1000

We measure the cross-correlation between galaxy weak lensing data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-1000, DR4) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT, DR4) and the Planck Legacy survey.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Naomi Clare Robertson , David Alonso , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Omar Darwish , Arun Kannawad , Alexandra Amon , Marika Asgari , Maciej Bilicki , Erminia Calabrese , Steve K. Choi , Mark J. Devlin , Jo Dunkley , Andrej Dvornik , Thomas Erben , Simone Ferraro , Maria Cristina Fortuna , Benjamin Giblin , Dongwon Han , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , J. Colin Hill , Matt Hilton , Shuay-Pwu P. Ho , Henk Hoekstra , Johannes Hubmayr , Jack Hughes , Benjamin Joachimi , Shahab Joudaki , Kenda Knowles , Konrad Kuijken , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Kavilan Moodley , Lance Miller , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Peter Schneider , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Cristóbal Sifón , Suzanne T. Staggs , Tilman Tröster , Alexander van Engelen , Edwin Valentijn , Edward J. Wollack , Angus H. Wright , Zhilei Xu

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

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Lensing of CMB Temperature and Polarization Derived from Cosmic Infrared Background Cross-Correlation

We present a measurement of the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields obtained by cross-correlating the reconstructed convergence signal from the first season of ACTPol data at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Alexander van Engelen , Blake D. Sherwin , Neelima Sehgal , Graeme E. Addison , Rupert Allison , Nick Battaglia , Francesco de Bernardis , Erminia Calabrese , Kevin Coughlin , Devin Crichton , J. Richard Bond , Rahul Datta , Rolando Dunner , Joanna Dunkley , Emily Grace , Megan Gralla , Amir Hajian , Matthew Hasselfield , Shawn Henderson , J. Colin Hill , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hlozek , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Mathew Madhavacheril , Loic Maurin , Jeff McMahon , Kavilan Moodley , Charles Munson , Sigurd Naess , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , Michael D. Niemack , Mike Nolta , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Christine Pappas , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Jonathan L. Sievers , Sara Simon , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Eric R. Switzer , Jonathan T. Ward , Edward J. Wollack

Evidence for dark energy from the cosmic microwave background alone using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope lensing measurements

For the first time, measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) alone favor cosmologies with $w=-1$ dark energy over models without dark energy at a 3.2-sigma level. We demonstrate this by combining the CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-02 Blake D. Sherwin , Joanna Dunkley , Sudeep Das , John W. Appel , J. Richard Bond , C. Sofia Carvalho , Mark J. Devlin , Rolando Dunner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Joseph W. Fowler , Amir Hajian , Mark Halpern , Matthew Hasselfield , Adam D. Hincks , Renee Hlozek , John P. Hughes , Kent D. Irwin , Jeff Klein , Arthur Kosowsky , Tobias A. Marriage , Danica Marsden , Kavilan Moodley , Felipe Menanteau , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , Lyman A. Page , Lucas Parker , Erik D. Reese , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Jon Sievers , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Daniel S. Swetz , Eric R. Switzer , Robert Thornton , Katerina Visnjic , Ed Wollack

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A demonstration of CMB lensing measurement from daytime data

We present a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum analysis using daytime data (11am-11pm UTC) gathered by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) over the period 2017-2022 (ACT Data Release 6). This dataset is challenging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Irene Abril-Cabezas , Frank J. Qu , Joshua Kim , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Karen Perez-Sarmiento , Zachary Atkins , Erminia Calabrese , Anthony Challinor , Mark J. Devlin , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Alexander van Engelen , Simone Ferraro , Emily Finson , Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Matt Hilton , Arthur Kosowsky , Aleksandra Kusiak , Thibaut Louis , Niall MacCrann , Kavilan Moodley , Toshiya Namikawa , Sigurd Naess , Lyman A. Page , Adrien La Posta , Emmanuel Schaan , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Carlos E. Sierra , Cristóbal Sifón , Suzanne T. Staggs , Emilie Storer , Edward J. Wollack