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1. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: High-resolution component-separated maps across one-third of the sky

Author

Coulton, William R., Madhavacheril, Mathew S., Duivenvoorden, Adriaan J., Hill, J. Colin, Abril-Cabezas, Irene, Ade, Peter A. R., Aiola, Simone, Alford, Tommy, Amiri, Mandana, Amodeo, Stefania, An, Rui, Atkins, Zachary, Austermann, Jason E., Battaglia, Nicholas, Battistelli, Elia Stefano, Beall, James A., Bean, Rachel, Beringue, Benjamin, Bhandarkar, Tanay, Biermann, Emily, Bolliet, Boris, Bond, J Richard, Cai, Hongbo, Calabrese, Erminia, Calafut, Victoria, Capalbo, Valentina, Carrero, Felipe, Chesmore, Grace E., Cho, Hsiao-mei, Choi, Steve K., Clark, Susan E., Rosado, Rodrigo Córdova, Cothard, Nicholas F., Coughlin, Kevin, Crowley, Kevin T., Devlin, Mark J., Dicker, Simon, Doze, Peter, Duell, Cody J., Duff, Shannon M., Dunkley, Jo, Dünner, Rolando, Fanfani, Valentina, Fankhanel, Max, Farren, Gerrit, Ferraro, Simone, Freundt, Rodrigo, Fuzia, Brittany, Gallardo, Patricio A., Garrido, Xavier, Givans, Jahmour, Gluscevic, Vera, Golec, Joseph E., Guan, Yilun, Halpern, Mark, Han, Dongwon, Hasselfield, Matthew, Healy, Erin, Henderson, Shawn, Hensley, Brandon, Hervías-Caimapo, Carlos, Hilton, Gene C., Hilton, Matt, Hincks, Adam D., Hložek, Renée, Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty, Huber, Zachary B., Hubmayr, Johannes, Huffenberger, Kevin M., Hughes, John P., Irwin, Kent, Isopi, Giovanni, Jense, Hidde T., Keller, Ben, Kim, Joshua, Knowles, Kenda, Koopman, Brian J., Kosowsky, Arthur, Kramer, Darby, Kusiak, Aleksandra, La Posta, Adrien, Lakey, Victoria, Lee, Eunseong, Li, Zack, Li, Yaqiong, Limon, Michele, Lokken, Martine, Louis, Thibaut, Lungu, Marius, MacCrann, Niall, MacInnis, Amanda, Maldonado, Diego, Maldonado, Felipe, Mallaby-Kay, Maya, Marques, Gabriela A., van Marrewijk, Joshiwa, McCarthy, Fiona, McMahon, Jeff, Mehta, Yogesh, Menanteau, Felipe, Moodley, Kavilan, Morris, Thomas W., Mroczkowski, Tony, Naess, Sigurd, Namikawa, Toshiya, Nati, Federico, Newburgh, Laura, Nicola, Andrina, Niemack, Michael D., Nolta, Michael R., Orlowski-Scherer, John, Page, Lyman A., Pandey, Shivam, Partridge, Bruce, Prince, Heather, Puddu, Roberto, Qu, Frank J., Radiconi, Federico, Robertson, Naomi, Rojas, Felipe, Sakuma, Tai, Salatino, Maria, Schaan, Emmanuel, Schmitt, Benjamin L., Sehgal, Neelima, Shaikh, Shabbir, Sherwin, Blake D., Sierra, Carlos, Sievers, Jon, Sifón, Cristóbal, Simon, Sara, Sonka, Rita, Spergel, David N., Staggs, Suzanne T., Storer, Emilie, Switzer, Eric R., Tampier, Niklas, Thornton, Robert, Trac, Hy, Treu, Jesse, Tucker, Carole, Ullom, Joel, Vale, Leila R., Van Engelen, Alexander, Van Lanen, Jeff, Vargas, Cristian, Vavagiakis, Eve M., Wagoner, Kasey, Wang, Yuhan, Wenzl, Lukas, Wollack, Edward J., Xu, Zhilei, Zago, Fernando, and Zheng, Kaiwen

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Observations of the millimeter sky contain valuable information on a number of signals, including the blackbody cosmic microwave background (CMB), Galactic emissions, and the Compton-$y$ distortion due to the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect. Extracting new insight into cosmological and astrophysical questions often requires combining multi-wavelength observations to spectrally isolate one component. In this work, we present a new arcminute-resolution Compton-$y$ map, which traces out the line-of-sight-integrated electron pressure, as well as maps of the CMB in intensity and E-mode polarization, across a third of the sky (around 13,000 sq.~deg.). We produce these through a joint analysis of data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 4 and 6 at frequencies of roughly 93, 148, and 225 GHz, together with data from the \textit{Planck} satellite at frequencies between 30 GHz and 545 GHz. We present detailed verification of an internal linear combination pipeline implemented in a needlet frame that allows us to efficiently suppress Galactic contamination and account for spatial variations in the ACT instrument noise. These maps provide a significant advance, in noise levels and resolution, over the existing \textit{Planck} component-separated maps and will enable a host of science goals including studies of cluster and galaxy astrophysics, inferences of the cosmic velocity field, primordial non-Gaussianity searches, and gravitational lensing reconstruction of the CMB., The Compton-y map and associated products will be made publicly available upon publication of the paper. The CMB T and E mode maps will be made available when the DR6 maps are made public

Published
2023

2. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing Map and Cosmological Parameters

Author

Madhavacheril, Mathew S., Qu, Frank J., Sherwin, Blake D., MacCrann, Niall, Li, Yaqiong, Abril-Cabezas, Irene, Ade, Peter A. R., Aiola, Simone, Alford, Tommy, Amiri, Mandana, Amodeo, Stefania, An, Rui, Atkins, Zachary, Austermann, Jason E., Battaglia, Nicholas, Battistelli, Elia Stefano, Beall, James A., Bean, Rachel, Beringue, Benjamin, Bhandarkar, Tanay, Biermann, Emily, Bolliet, Boris, Bond, J Richard, Cai, Hongbo, Calabrese, Erminia, Calafut, Victoria, Capalbo, Valentina, Carrero, Felipe, Challinor, Anthony, Chesmore, Grace E., Cho, Hsiao-mei, Choi, Steve K., Clark, Susan E., Rosado, Rodrigo Córdova, Cothard, Nicholas F., Coughlin, Kevin, Coulton, William, Crowley, Kevin T., Dalal, Roohi, Darwish, Omar, Devlin, Mark J., Dicker, Simon, Doze, Peter, Duell, Cody J., Duff, Shannon M., Duivenvoorden, Adriaan J., Dunkley, Jo, Dünner, Rolando, Fanfani, Valentina, Fankhanel, Max, Farren, Gerrit, Ferraro, Simone, Freundt, Rodrigo, Fuzia, Brittany, Gallardo, Patricio A., Garrido, Xavier, Givans, Jahmour, Gluscevic, Vera, Golec, Joseph E., Guan, Yilun, Hall, Kirsten R., Halpern, Mark, Han, Dongwon, Harrison, Ian, Hasselfield, Matthew, Healy, Erin, Henderson, Shawn, Hensley, Brandon, Hervías-Caimapo, Carlos, Hill, J. Colin, Hilton, Gene C., Hilton, Matt, Hincks, Adam D., Hložek, Renée, Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty, Huber, Zachary B., Hubmayr, Johannes, Huffenberger, Kevin M., Hughes, John P., Irwin, Kent, Isopi, Giovanni, Jense, Hidde T., Keller, Ben, Kim, Joshua, Knowles, Kenda, Koopman, Brian J., Kosowsky, Arthur, Kramer, Darby, Kusiak, Aleksandra, La Posta, Adrien, Lague, Alex, Lakey, Victoria, Lee, Eunseong, Li, Zack, Limon, Michele, Lokken, Martine, Louis, Thibaut, Lungu, Marius, MacInnis, Amanda, Maldonado, Diego, Maldonado, Felipe, Mallaby-Kay, Maya, Marques, Gabriela A., McMahon, Jeff, Mehta, Yogesh, Menanteau, Felipe, Moodley, Kavilan, Morris, Thomas W., Mroczkowski, Tony, Naess, Sigurd, Namikawa, Toshiya, Nati, Federico, Newburgh, Laura, Nicola, Andrina, Niemack, Michael D., Nolta, Michael R., Orlowski-Scherer, John, Page, Lyman A., Pandey, Shivam, Partridge, Bruce, Prince, Heather, Puddu, Roberto, Radiconi, Federico, Robertson, Naomi, Rojas, Felipe, Sakuma, Tai, Salatino, Maria, Schaan, Emmanuel, Schmitt, Benjamin L., Sehgal, Neelima, Shaikh, Shabbir, Sierra, Carlos, Sievers, Jon, Sifón, Cristóbal, Simon, Sara, Sonka, Rita, Spergel, David N., Staggs, Suzanne T., Storer, Emilie, Switzer, Eric R., Tampier, Niklas, Thornton, Robert, Trac, Hy, Treu, Jesse, Tucker, Carole, Ulluom, Joel, Vale, Leila R., Van Engelen, Alexander, Van Lanen, Jeff, van Marrewijk, Joshiwa, Vargas, Cristian, Vavagiakis, Eve M., Wagoner, Kasey, Wang, Yuhan, Wenzl, Lukas, Wollack, Edward J., Xu, Zhilei, Zago, Fernando, and Zhang, Kaiwen

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present cosmological constraints from a gravitational lensing mass map covering 9400 sq. deg. reconstructed from CMB measurements made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 2017 to 2021. In combination with BAO measurements (from SDSS and 6dF), we obtain the amplitude of matter fluctuations $\sigma_8 = 0.819 \pm 0.015$ at 1.8% precision, $S_8\equiv\sigma_8({\Omega_{\rm m}}/0.3)^{0.5}=0.840\pm0.028$ and the Hubble constant $H_0= (68.3 \pm 1.1)\, \text{km}\,\text{s}^{-1}\,\text{Mpc}^{-1}$ at 1.6% precision. A joint constraint with CMB lensing measured by the Planck satellite yields even more precise values: $\sigma_8 = 0.812 \pm 0.013$, $S_8\equiv\sigma_8({\Omega_{\rm m}}/0.3)^{0.5}=0.831\pm0.023$ and $H_0= (68.1 \pm 1.0)\, \text{km}\,\text{s}^{-1}\,\text{Mpc}^{-1}$. These measurements agree well with $\Lambda$CDM-model extrapolations from the CMB anisotropies measured by Planck. To compare these constraints to those from the KiDS, DES, and HSC galaxy surveys, we revisit those data sets with a uniform set of assumptions, and find $S_8$ from all three surveys are lower than that from ACT+Planck lensing by varying levels ranging from 1.7-2.1$\sigma$. These results motivate further measurements and comparison, not just between the CMB anisotropies and galaxy lensing, but also between CMB lensing probing $z\sim 0.5-5$ on mostly-linear scales and galaxy lensing at $z\sim 0.5$ on smaller scales. We combine our CMB lensing measurements with CMB anisotropies to constrain extensions of $\Lambda$CDM, limiting the sum of the neutrino masses to $\sum m_{\nu} < 0.12$ eV (95% c.l.), for example. Our results provide independent confirmation that the universe is spatially flat, conforms with general relativity, and is described remarkably well by the $\Lambda$CDM model, while paving a promising path for neutrino physics with gravitational lensing from upcoming ground-based CMB surveys., Comment: 30 pages, 16 figures, prepared for submission to ApJ. Cosmological likelihood data is here: https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/act/actadv_prod_table.html ; likelihood software is here: https://github.com/ACTCollaboration/act_dr6_lenslike . Also see companion papers Qu et al and MacCrann et al. Mass maps will be released when papers are published

Published
2023

3. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and its Implications for Structure Growth

Author

Qu, Frank J., Sherwin, Blake D., Madhavacheril, Mathew S., Han, Dongwon, Crowley, Kevin T., Abril-Cabezas, Irene, Ade, Peter A. R., Aiola, Simone, Alford, Tommy, Amiri, Mandana, Amodeo, Stefania, An, Rui, Atkins, Zachary, Austermann, Jason E., Battaglia, Nicholas, Battistelli, Elia Stefano, Beall, James A., Bean, Rachel, Beringue, Benjamin, Bhandarkar, Tanay, Biermann, Emily, Bolliet, Boris, Bond, J Richard, Cai, Hongbo, Calabrese, Erminia, Calafut, Victoria, Capalbo, Valentina, Carrero, Felipe, Carron, Julien, Challinor, Anthony, Chesmore, Grace E., Cho, Hsiao-mei, Choi, Steve K., Clark, Susan E., Rosado, Rodrigo Córdova, Cothard, Nicholas F., Coughlin, Kevin, Coulton, William, Dalal, Roohi, Darwish, Omar, Devlin, Mark J., Dicker, Simon, Doze, Peter, Duell, Cody J., Duff, Shannon M., Duivenvoorden, Adriaan J., Dunkley, Jo, Dünner, Rolando, Fanfani, Valentina, Fankhanel, Max, Farren, Gerrit, Ferraro, Simone, Freundt, Rodrigo, Fuzia, Brittany, Gallardo, Patricio A., Garrido, Xavier, Gluscevic, Vera, Golec, Joseph E., Guan, Yilun, Halpern, Mark, Harrison, Ian, Hasselfield, Matthew, Healy, Erin, Henderson, Shawn, Hensley, Brandon, Hervías-Caimapo, Carlos, Hill, J. Colin, Hilton, Gene C., Hilton, Matt, Hincks, Adam D., Hložek, Renée, Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty, Huber, Zachary B., Hubmayr, Johannes, Huffenberger, Kevin M., Hughes, John P., Irwin, Kent, Isopi, Giovanni, Jense, Hidde T., Keller, Ben, Kim, Joshua, Knowles, Kenda, Koopman, Brian J., Kosowsky, Arthur, Kramer, Darby, Kusiak, Aleksandra, La Posta, Adrien, Lague, Alex, Lakey, Victoria, Lee, Eunseong, Li, Zack, Li, Yaqiong, Limon, Michele, Lokken, Martine, Louis, Thibaut, Lungu, Marius, MacCrann, Niall, MacInnis, Amanda, Maldonado, Diego, Maldonado, Felipe, Mallaby-Kay, Maya, Marques, Gabriela A., McMahon, Jeff, Mehta, Yogesh, Menanteau, Felipe, Moodley, Kavilan, Morris, Thomas W., Mroczkowski, Tony, Naess, Sigurd, Namikawa, Toshiya, Nati, Federico, Newburgh, Laura, Nicola, Andrina, Niemack, Michael D., Nolta, Michael R., Orlowski-Scherer, John, Page, Lyman A., Pandey, Shivam, Partridge, Bruce, Prince, Heather, Puddu, Roberto, Radiconi, Federico, Robertson, Naomi, Rojas, Felipe, Sakuma, Tai, Salatino, Maria, Schaan, Emmanuel, Schmitt, Benjamin L., Sehgal, Neelima, Shaikh, Shabbir, Sierra, Carlos, Sievers, Jon, Sifón, Cristóbal, Simon, Sara, Sonka, Rita, Spergel, David N., Staggs, Suzanne T., Storer, Emilie, Switzer, Eric R., Tampier, Niklas, Thornton, Robert, Trac, Hy, Treu, Jesse, Tucker, Carole, Ulluom, Joel, Vale, Leila R., Van Engelen, Alexander, Van Lanen, Jeff, van Marrewijk, Joshiwa, Vargas, Cristian, Vavagiakis, Eve M., Wagoner, Kasey, Wang, Yuhan, Wenzl, Lukas, Wollack, Edward J., Xu, Zhilei, Zago, Fernando, and Zhang, Kaiwen

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present new measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing over $9400$ sq. deg. of the sky. These lensing measurements are derived from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) CMB dataset, which consists of five seasons of ACT CMB temperature and polarization observations. We determine the amplitude of the CMB lensing power spectrum at $2.3\%$ precision ($43\sigma$ significance) using a novel pipeline that minimizes sensitivity to foregrounds and to noise properties. To ensure our results are robust, we analyze an extensive set of null tests, consistency tests, and systematic error estimates and employ a blinded analysis framework. The baseline spectrum is well fit by a lensing amplitude of $A_{\mathrm{lens}}=1.013\pm0.023$ relative to the Planck 2018 CMB power spectra best-fit $\Lambda$CDM model and $A_{\mathrm{lens}}=1.005\pm0.023$ relative to the $\text{ACT DR4} + \text{WMAP}$ best-fit model. From our lensing power spectrum measurement, we derive constraints on the parameter combination $S^{\mathrm{CMBL}}_8 \equiv \sigma_8 \left({\Omega_m}/{0.3}\right)^{0.25}$ of $S^{\mathrm{CMBL}}_8= 0.818\pm0.022$ from ACT DR6 CMB lensing alone and $S^{\mathrm{CMBL}}_8= 0.813\pm0.018$ when combining ACT DR6 and Planck NPIPE CMB lensing power spectra. These results are in excellent agreement with $\Lambda$CDM model constraints from Planck or $\text{ACT DR4} + \text{WMAP}$ CMB power spectrum measurements. Our lensing measurements from redshifts $z\sim0.5$--$5$ are thus fully consistent with $\Lambda$CDM structure growth predictions based on CMB anisotropies probing primarily $z\sim1100$. We find no evidence for a suppression of the amplitude of cosmic structure at low redshifts, Comment: 45+21 pages, 50 figures. Prepared for submission to ApJ. Also see companion papers Madhavacheril et al and MacCrann et al

Published
2023
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4. Snowmass2021 CMB-HD White Paper

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HD Collaboration, Aiola, Simone, Akrami, Yashar, Basu, Kaustuv, Boylan-Kolchin, Michael, Brinckmann, Thejs, Bryan, Sean, Casey, Caitlin M., Chluba, Jens, Clesse, Sebastien, Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan, Di Mascolo, Luca, Dicker, Simon, Essinger-Hileman, Thomas, Farren, Gerrit S., Fedderke, Michael A., Ferraro, Simone, Fuller, George M., Galitzki, Nicholas, Gluscevic, Vera, Grin, Daniel, Han, Dongwon, Hasselfield, Matthew, Hlozek, Renee, Holder, Gil, Hotinli, Selim C., Jain, Bhuvnesh, Johnson, Bradley, Johnson, Matthew, Klaassen, Pamela, MacInnis, Amanda, Madhavacheril, Mathew, Mandal, Sayan, Mauskopf, Philip, Meerburg, Daan, Meyers, Joel, Miranda, Vivian, Mroczkowski, Tony, Mukherjee, Suvodip, Munchmeyer, Moritz, Munoz, Julian, Naess, Sigurd, Nagai, Daisuke, Namikawa, Toshiya, Newburgh, Laura, Nguyen, Ho Nam, Niemack, Michael, Oppenheimer, Benjamin D., Pierpaoli, Elena, Raghunathan, Srinivasan, Schaan, Emmanuel, Sehgal, Neelima, Sherwin, Blake, Simon, Sara M., Slosar, Anze, Smith, Kendrick, Spergel, David, Switzer, Eric R., Trivedi, Pranjal, Tsai, Yu-Dai, van Engelen, Alexander, Wandelt, Benjamin D., Wollack, Edward J., and Wu, Kimmy

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), hep-ex, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, astro-ph.CO, FOS: Physical sciences, hep-ph, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

CMB-HD is a proposed millimeter-wave survey over half the sky that would be ultra-deep (0.5 uK-arcmin) and have unprecedented resolution (15 arcseconds at 150 GHz). Such a survey would answer many outstanding questions about the fundamental physics of the Universe. Major advances would be 1.) the use of gravitational lensing of the primordial microwave background to map the distribution of matter on small scales (k~10 h Mpc^(-1)), which probes dark matter particle properties. It will also allow 2.) measurements of the thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects on small scales to map the gas density and velocity, another probe of cosmic structure. In addition, CMB-HD would allow us to cross critical thresholds: 3.) ruling out or detecting any new, light (< 0.1 eV) particles that were in thermal equilibrium with known particles in the early Universe, 4.) testing a wide class of multi-field models that could explain an epoch of inflation in the early Universe, and 5.) ruling out or detecting inflationary magnetic fields. CMB-HD would also provide world-leading constraints on 6.) axion-like particles, 7.) cosmic birefringence, 8.) the sum of the neutrino masses, and 9.) the dark energy equation of state. The CMB-HD survey would be delivered in 7.5 years of observing 20,000 square degrees of sky, using two new 30-meter-class off-axis crossed Dragone telescopes to be located at Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert. Each telescope would field 800,000 detectors (200,000 pixels), for a total of 1.6 million detectors., Contribution to Snowmass 2021. Note some text overlap with CMB-HD Astro2020 APC and RFI (arXiv:1906.10134, arXiv:2002.12714). Science case further broadened and updated

Published
2022
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5. Probing Galaxy Evolution in Massive Clusters Using ACT and DES: Splashback as a Cosmic Clock

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Adhikari, Susmita, Shin, Tae-hyeon, Jain, Bhuvnesh, Hilton, Matt, Baxter, Eric, Chang, Chihway, Wechsler, Risa H, Battaglia, Nick, Bond, J Richard, Bocquet, Sebastian, DeRose, Joseph, Choi, Steve K, Devlin, Mark, Dunkley, Jo, Evrard, August E, Ferraro, Simone, Hill, J Colin, Hughes, John P, Gallardo, Patricio A, Lokken, Martine, MacInnis, Amanda, McMahon, Jeffrey, Madhavacheril, Mathew S, Nati, Frederico, Newburgh, Laura B, Niemack, Michael D, Page, Lyman A, Palmese, Antonella, Partridge, Bruce, Rozo, Eduardo, Rykoff, Eli, Salatino, Maria, Schillaci, Alessandro, Sehgal, Neelima, Sifón, Cristóbal, To, Chun-Hao, Wollack, Ed, Wu, Hao-Yi, Xu, Zhilei, Aguena, Michel, Allam, Sahar, Amon, Alexandra, Annis, James, Avila, Santiago, Bacon, David, Bertin, Emmanuel, Bhargava, Sunayana, Brooks, David, Burke, David L, Rosell, Aurelio C, Kind, Matias Carrasco, Carretero, Jorge, Castander, Francisco Javier, Choi, Ami, Costanzi, Matteo, Costa, Luiz N da, Vicente, Juan De, Desai, Shantanu, Diehl, Thomas H, Doel, Peter, Everett, Spencer, Ferrero, Ismael, Ferté, Agnès, Flaugher, Brenna, Fosalba, Pablo, Frieman, Josh, García-Bellido, Juan, Gaztanaga, Enrique, Gruen, Daniel, Gruendl, Robert A, Gschwend, Julia, Gutierrez, Gaston, Hartley, Will G, Hinton, Samuel R, Hollowood, Devon L, Honscheid, Klaus, James, David J, Jeltema, Tesla, Kuehn, Kyler, Kuropatkin, Nikolay, Lahav, Ofer, Lima, Marcos, Maia, Marcio AG, Marshall, Jennifer L, Martini, Paul, Melchior, Peter, Menanteau, Felipe, Miquel, Ramon, Morgan, Robert, Ogando, Ricardo LC, Paz-Chinchón, Francisco, Malagón, Andrés Plazas, Sanchez, Eusebio, Santiago, Basilio, Scarpine, Vic, Serrano, Santiago, Sevilla-Noarbe, Ignacio, Smith, Mathew, Soares-Santos, Marcelle, and Suchyta, Eric

Subjects
Particle and Plasma Physics, astro-ph.GA, Molecular, Nuclear, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Atomic, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
Abstract

We measure the projected number density profiles of galaxies and the splashback feature in clusters selected by the Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect from the Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope (AdvACT) survey using galaxies observed by the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The splashback radius for the complete galaxy sample is consistent with theoretical measurements from CDM-only simulations, and is located at $2.4^{+0.3}_{-0.4}$ Mpc $h^{-1}$. We split the sample based on galaxy color and find significant differences in the profile shapes. Red galaxies and those in the green valley show a splashback-like minimum in their slope profile consistent with theoretical predictions, while the bluest galaxies show a weak feature that appears at a smaller radius. We develop a mapping of galaxies to subhalos in $N$-body simulations by splitting subhalos based on infall time onto the cluster halos. We find that the location of the steepest slope and differences in the shapes of the profiles can be mapped to differences in the average time of infall of galaxies of different colors. The minima of the slope in the galaxy profiles trace a discontinuity in the phase space of dark matter halos. By relating spatial profiles to infall time for galaxies of different colours, we can use splashback as a clock to understand galaxy quenching. We find that red galaxies have on average been in their clusters for over $3.2 ~\rm Gyrs$, green galaxies about $2.2 ~\rm Gyrs$, while blue galaxies have been accreted most recently and have not reached apocenter. Using the information from the complete radial profiles, we fit a simple quenching model and find that the onset of galaxy quenching in clusters occurs after a delay of about a gigayear, and that galaxies quench rapidly thereafter with an exponential timescale of $0.6$ Gyr.

Published
2021

6. Probing Galaxy Evolution in Massive Clusters Using ACT and DES: Splashback as a Cosmic Clock

Author

Adhikari, Susmita, Shin, Tae-hyeon, Jain, Bhuvnesh, Hilton, Matt, Baxter, Eric, Chang, Chihway, Wechsler, Risa H., Battaglia, Nick, Bond, J. Richard, Bocquet, Sebastian, DeRose, Joseph, Choi, Steve K., Devlin, Mark, Dunkley, Jo, Evrard, August E., Ferraro, Simone, Hill, J. Colin, Hughes, John P., Gallardo, Patricio A., Lokken, Martine, MacInnis, Amanda, McMahon, Jeffrey, Madhavacheril, Mathew S., Nati, Frederico, Newburgh, Laura B., Niemack, Michael D., Page, Lyman A., Palmese, Antonella, Partridge, Bruce, Rozo, Eduardo, Rykoff, Eli, Salatino, Maria, Schillaci, Alessandro, Sehgal, Neelima, Sif��n, Crist��bal, To, Chun-Hao, Wollack, Ed, Wu, Hao-Yi, Xu, Zhilei, Aguena, Michel, Allam, Sahar, Amon, Alexandra, Annis, James, Avila, Santiago, Bacon, David, Bertin, Emmanuel, Bhargava, Sunayana, Brooks, David, Burke, David L., Rosell, Aurelio C., Kind, Matias Carrasco, Carretero, Jorge, Castander, Francisco Javier, Choi, Ami, Costanzi, Matteo, da Costa, Luiz N., De Vicente, Juan, Desai, Shantanu, Diehl, Thomas H., Doel, Peter, Everett, Spencer, Ferrero, Ismael, Fert��, Agn��s, Flaugher, Brenna, Fosalba, Pablo, Frieman, Josh, Garc��a-Bellido, Juan, Gaztanaga, Enrique, Gruen, Daniel, Gruendl, Robert A., Gschwend, Julia, Gutierrez, Gaston, Hartley, Will G., Hinton, Samuel R., Hollowood, Devon L., Honscheid, Klaus, James, David J., Jeltema, Tesla, Kuehn, Kyler, Kuropatkin, Nikolay, Lahav, Ofer, Lima, Marcos, Maia, Marcio A. G., Marshall, Jennifer L., Martini, Paul, Melchior, Peter, Menanteau, Felipe, Miquel, Ramon, Morgan, Robert, Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Paz-Chinch��n, Francisco, Malag��n, Andr��s Plazas, Sanchez, Eusebio, Santiago, Basilio, Scarpine, Vic, Serrano, Santiago, Sevilla-Noarbe, Ignacio, Smith, Mathew, Soares-Santos, Marcelle, Suchyta, Eric, Swanson, Molly E. C., Varga, Tamas N., Wilkinson, Reese D., Zhang, Yuanyuan, Austermann, Jason E., Beall, James A., Becker, Daniel T., Denison, Edward V., Duff, Shannon M., Hilton, Gene C., Hubmayr, Johannes, Ullom, Joel N., Van Lanen, Jeff, Vale, Leila R., Collaboration, DES, Collaboration, ACT, National Science Foundation (US), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Generalitat de Catalunya, European Commission, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (Brasil), Adhikari, S, Shin, T, Jain, B, Hilton, M, Baxter, E, Chang, C, Wechsler, R, Battaglia, N, Bond, J, Bocquet, S, Choi, S, Derose, J, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Evrard, A, Ferraro, S, Hill, J, Hughes, J, Gallardo, P, Lokken, M, Macinnis, A, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Page, L, Palmese, A, Partridge, B, Rozo, E, Rykoff, E, Salatino, M, Schillaci, A, Sehgal, N, Sifon, C, To, C, Wollack, E, Wu, H, Xu, Z, Aguena, M, Allam, S, Amon, A, Annis, J, Avila, S, Bacon, D, Bertin, E, Bhargava, S, Brooks, D, Burke, D, Rosell, A, Kind, M, Carretero, J, Castander, F, Choi, A, Costanzi, M, Da Costa, L, Vicente, J, Desai, S, Diehl, T, Doel, P, Everett, S, Ferrero, I, Ferte, A, Flaugher, B, Fosalba, P, Frieman, J, Garcia-Bellido, J, Gaztanaga, E, Gruen, D, Gruendl, R, Gschwend, J, Gutierrez, G, Hartley, W, Hinton, S, Hollowood, D, Honscheid, K, James, D, Jeltema, T, Kuehn, K, Kuropatkin, N, Lahav, O, Lima, M, Maia, M, Marshall, J, Martini, P, Melchior, P, Menanteau, F, Miquel, R, Morgan, R, L. 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Subjects
Galaxy dark matter halos, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Cold dark matter, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxy clusters, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology, SZ effect, Galaxy cluster, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Galaxy evolution, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Galaxy kinematics
Abstract

Adhikari, S., et al. (DES and ACT Collaboration), We measure the projected number density profiles of galaxies and the splashback feature in clusters selected by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from the Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope (AdvACT) survey using galaxies observed by the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The splashback radius is consistent with CDM-only simulations and is located at 2.4-0.4+0.3 Mpc h-1. We split the galaxies on color and find significant differences in their profile shapes. Red and green-valley galaxies show a splashback-like minimum in their slope profile consistent with theory, while the bluest galaxies show a weak feature at a smaller radius. We develop a mapping of galaxies to subhalos in simulations and assign colors based on infall time onto their hosts. We find that the shift in location of the steepest slope and different profile shapes can be mapped to the average time of infall of galaxies of different colors. The steepest slope traces a discontinuity in the phase space of dark matter halos. By relating spatial profiles to infall time, we can use splashback as a clock to understand galaxy quenching. We find that red galaxies have on average been in clusters over 3.2 Gyr, green galaxies about 2.2 Gyr, while blue galaxies have been accreted most recently and have not reached apocenter. Using the full radial profiles, we fit a simple quenching model and find that the onset of galaxy quenching occurs after a delay of about a gigayear and that galaxies quench rapidly thereafter with an exponential timescale of 0.6 Gyr., The DES Data Management System is supported by the NSF under grant Nos. AST-1138766 and AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MICINN under grants ESP2017-89838, PGC2018-094773, PGC2018-102021, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Unionʼs Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) do e-Universo (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2)

Published
2021

7. CMB-HD: Astro2020 RFI Response

Author

Sehgal, Neelima, Aiola, Simone, Akrami, Yashar, Basu, Kaustuv, Boylan-Kolchin, Mike, Bryan, Sean, Casey, Caitlin M., Clesse, Sébastien, Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan, Di Mascolo, Luca, Dicker, Simon, Essinger-Hileman, Thomas, Ferraro, Simone, Fuller, George M., Galitzki, Nicholas, Han, Dongwon, Hasselfield, Mathew, Holder, Gil, Jain, Bhuvnesh, Johnson, Bradley, Johnson, Matthew, Klaassen, Pamela, Macinnis, Amanda, Madhavacheril, Mathew, Mauskopf, Philip, Meerburg, Daan, Meyers, Joel, Mroczkowski, Tony, Mukherjee, Suvodip, Munchmeyer, Moritz, Naess, Sigurd, Nagai, Daisuke, Namikawa, Toshiya, Newburgh, Laura, Hồ Nam Nguyễn}$^{21, 29, Niemack, Michael, Oppenheimer, Benjamin D., Pierpaoli, Elena, Schaan, Emmanuel, Sherwin, Blake, Slosar, Anže, Spergel, David, Switzer, Eric, Trivedi, Pranjal, Yu-Dai Tsai, Engelen, Alexander, Wandelt, Benjamin, Wollack, Edward, Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS (UMR_8023)), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, hep-ph, cosmic background radiation, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Automatic Keywords, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), pixel, astro-ph.CO, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), astro-ph.IM, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

CMB-HD is a proposed ultra-deep (0.5 uk-arcmin), high-resolution (15 arcseconds) millimeter-wave survey over half the sky that would answer many outstanding questions in both fundamental physics of the Universe and astrophysics. This survey would be delivered in 7.5 years of observing 20,000 square degrees, using two new 30-meter-class off-axis cross-Dragone telescopes to be located at Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert. Each telescope would field 800,000 detectors (200,000 pixels), for a total of 1.6 million detectors., Comment: Response to request for information (RFI) by the Panel of Radio, Millimeter, and Submillimeter Observations from the Ground (RMS) of the Astro2020 Decadal Survey regarding the CMB-HD APC (arXiv:1906.10134). Note some text overlap with original APC. Note also detector count and cost have been reduced by 1/3, and observing time increased by 1/3 compared to original APC; science goals expanded

Published
2020

8. An Elementary School Student with a Physical Disability Participating in Physical Activity Class : A Qualitative Study of his perceptions and experiences

Author

Macinnis, Amanda Johanna

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to create a thorough description of the phenomenon under study. This study focused on participation from the perspective of Henry a seventh grade Norwegian student with Cerebral Palsy in physical activity class. The focus of this research was to investigate what impacted Henry’s opinions to participating in physical activity class. The experiences and perceptions of Henry could potentially create useful insights for students’ with disabilities who are not currently participating in physical activity classes. The research problem which functioned as the basis for this research was “What are the perceptions and experiences to participating in physical activity classes of an elementary student with a physical disability?” This main question was accompanied by four sub-questions which were used to explain the phenomena more clearly and richly. To do so, qualitative approaches were taken in the form of qualitative interview questions and observations. The participant was interviewed once using a semi-structured interview guide. Also, the participant was observed in a pilot observation which was followed by subsequent observations during physical activity class. The data collected, was organized into categories. These category topics were influenced by theoretical information which was used as a guide, of possible ways of grouping categories together. The data revealed that Henry does acknowledge that he belongs, is supported, and accepted in his physical activity classes. His experiences were influenced by his teacher, teacher assistant, his classmates, and friends. Henry reported benefits from participation in physical activity classes, such as more energy to complete daily tasks and homework. Henry reported that his teacher supported, encouraged, and helped him in physical activity classes. Finally, classmates were found to be supportive and helpful. Henry reported that he would rather be together with classmates during activities. Also, friends were identified as being important to participation in activities in both physical activity classes and recess. Henry reported that he felt it was easier for him to make friends during physical activity classes and at recess as compared to other subjects. He also claimed the social aspect of school is what he feels is the most important. Key words: Participation, Physical activity classes, physical disability, perspectives, experiences.

Published
2012

9. Snowmass2021 CMB-HD White Paper

Author

Aiola, Simone, Akrami, Yashar, Basu, Kaustuv, Boylan-Kolchin, Michael, Brinckmann, Thejs, Bryan, Sean, Casey, Caitlin M., Chluba, Jens, Clesse, Sebastien, Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan, Di Mascolo, Luca, Dicker, Simon, Essinger-Hileman, Thomas, Farren, Gerrit S., Fedderke, Michael A., Ferraro, Simone, Fuller, George M., Galitzki, Nicholas, Gluscevic, Vera, Grin, Daniel, Han, Dongwon, Hasselfield, Matthew, Hlozek, Renee, Holder, Gil, Hotinli, Selim C., Jain, Bhuvnesh, Johnson, Bradley, Johnson, Matthew, Klaassen, Pamela, Macinnis, Amanda, Madhavacheril, Mathew, Sayan Mandal, Mauskopf, Philip, Meerburg, Daan, Meyers, Joel, Miranda, Vivian, Mroczkowski, Tony, Mukherjee, Suvodip, Munchmeyer, Moritz, Munoz, Julian, Naess, Sigurd, Nagai, Daisuke, Namikawa, Toshiya, Newburgh, Laura, Nguyen, Ho Nam, Niemack, Michael, Oppenheimer, Benjamin D., Pierpaoli, Elena, Raghunathan, Srinivasan, Schaan, Emmanuel, Sehgal, Neelima, Sherwin, Blake, Simon, Sara M., Slosar, Anze, Smith, Kendrick, Spergel, David, Switzer, Eric R., Trivedi, Pranjal, Tsai, Yu-Dai, Engelen, Alexander, Wandelt, Benjamin D., Wollack, Edward J., Wu, Kimmy, and HEP, INSPIRE

Subjects
velocity, birefringence, [PHYS.HEXP] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], kinetic, resolution, magnetic field, dark matter: density, inflation: model, thermal, [PHYS.HPHE] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], microwaves: background, gravitation: lens, pixel, gas: density, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, axion-like particles, neutrino: mass, structure, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], dark energy: equation of state
Abstract

CMB-HD is a proposed millimeter-wave survey over half the sky that would be ultra-deep (0.5 uK-arcmin) and have unprecedented resolution (15 arcseconds at 150 GHz). Such a survey would answer many outstanding questions about the fundamental physics of the Universe. Major advances would be 1.) the use of gravitational lensing of the primordial microwave background to map the distribution of matter on small scales (k~10 h Mpc^(-1)), which probes dark matter particle properties. It will also allow 2.) measurements of the thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects on small scales to map the gas density and velocity, another probe of cosmic structure. In addition, CMB-HD would allow us to cross critical thresholds: 3.) ruling out or detecting any new, light (< 0.1 eV) particles that were in thermal equilibrium with known particles in the early Universe, 4.) testing a wide class of multi-field models that could explain an epoch of inflation in the early Universe, and 5.) ruling out or detecting inflationary magnetic fields. CMB-HD would also provide world-leading constraints on 6.) axion-like particles, 7.) cosmic birefringence, 8.) the sum of the neutrino masses, and 9.) the dark energy equation of state. The CMB-HD survey would be delivered in 7.5 years of observing 20,000 square degrees of sky, using two new 30-meter-class off-axis crossed Dragone telescopes to be located at Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert. Each telescope would field 800,000 detectors (200,000 pixels), for a total of 1.6 million detectors.

10. Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Combined kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich measurements from BOSS CMASS and LOWZ halos

Author

Schaan, Emmanuel, Ferraro, Simone, Amodeo, Stefania, Battaglia, Nick, Aiola, Simone, Austermann, Jason E., Beall, James A., Bean, Rachel, Becker, Daniel T., Bond, Richard J., Calabrese, Erminia, Calafut, Victoria, Choi, Steve K., Denison, Edward V., Devlin, Mark J., Duff, Shannon M., Duivenvoorden, Adriaan J., Dunkley, Jo, Dünner, Rolando, Gallardo, Patricio A., Guan, Yilun, Han, Dongwon, Hill, J. Colin, Hilton, Gene C., Hilton, Matt, Hložek, Renée, Hubmayr, Johannes, Huffenberger, Kevin M., Hughes, John P., Koopman, Brian J., MacInnis, Amanda, McMahon, Jeff, Madhavacheril, Mathew S., Moodley, Kavilan, Mroczkowski, Tony, Naess, Sigurd, Nati, Federico, Newburgh, Laura B., Niemack, Michael D., Page, Lyman A., Partridge, Bruce, Salatino, Maria, Sehgal, Neelima, Schillaci, Alessandro, Sifón, Cristóbal, Smith, Kendrick M., Spergel, David N., Staggs, Suzanne, Storer, Emilie R., Trac, Hy, Page, A., Ullom, Joel N., Van Lanen, Jeff, R. Vale, Leila, van Engelen, Alexander, Vargas Magaña, Mariana, M. Vavagiakis, Eve, Wollack, Edward J., Xu, Zhilei, Schaan, E, Ferraro, S, Amodeo, S, Battaglia, N, Aiola, S, Austermann, J, Beall, J, Bean, R, Becker, D, Bond, R, Calabrese, E, Calafut, V, Choi, S, Denison, E, Devlin, M, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Gallardo, P, Guan, Y, Han, D, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Macinnis, A, Mcmahon, J, Madhavacheril, M, Moodley, K, Mroczkowski, T, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Salatino, M, Sehgal, N, Schillaci, A, Sifon, C, Smith, K, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Trac, H, Ullom, J, Van Lanen, J, Vale, L, Van Engelen, A, Magana, M, Vavagiakis, E, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), astro-ph.GA, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, High resolution, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, CMB, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, symbols.namesake, Particle and Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Planck, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Molecular, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Redshift, Galaxy, 13. Climate action, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Atacama Cosmology Telescope, symbols, astro-ph.CO, Halo, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off the free-electron gas in galaxies and clusters leaves detectable imprints on high resolution CMB maps: the thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects (tSZ and kSZ respectively). We use combined microwave maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) DR5 and Planck in combination with the CMASS and LOWZ galaxy catalogs from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS DR10 and DR12), to study the gas associated with these galaxy groups. Using individual reconstructed velocities, we perform a stacking analysis and reject the no-kSZ hypothesis at 6.5$\sigma$, the highest significance to date. This directly translates into a measurement of the electron number density profile, and thus of the gas density profile. Despite the limited signal to noise, the measurement shows at high significance that the gas density profile is more extended than the dark matter density profile, for any reasonable baryon abundance (formally $>90\sigma$ for the cosmic baryon abundance). We simultaneously measure the tSZ signal, i.e. the electron thermal pressure profile of the same CMASS objects, and reject the no-tSZ hypothesis at 10$\sigma$. We combine tSZ and kSZ measurements to estimate the electron temperature to 20% precision in several aperture bins, and find it comparable to the virial temperature. In a companion paper, we analyze these measurements to constrain the gas thermodynamics and the properties of feedback inside galaxy groups. We present the corresponding LOWZ measurements in this paper, ruling out a null kSZ (tSZ) signal at 2.9 (13.9)$\sigma$, and leave their interpretation to future work. Our stacking software ThumbStack is publicly available at https://github.com/EmmanuelSchaan/ThumbStack and directly applicable to future Simons Observatory and CMB-S4 data., Comment: Accepted in Physical Review D, Editors' Suggestion

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