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1. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the baryon content of SDSS DR15 galaxies with the thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effects

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Vavagiakis, E, Gallardo, P, Calafut, V, Amodeo, S, Aiola, S, Austermann, J, Battaglia, N, Battistelli, E, Beall, J, Bean, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Cothard, N, Devlin, M, Duell, C, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Guan, Y, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Huber, Z, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Li, Y, Lokken, M, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sifon, C, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Ullom, J, Vale, L, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Vavagiakis E. M., Gallardo P. A., Calafut V., Amodeo S., Aiola S., Austermann J. E., Battaglia N., Battistelli E. S., Beall J. A., Bean R., Bond J. R., Calabrese E., Choi S. K., Cothard N. F., Devlin M. J., Duell C. J., Duff S. M., Duivenvoorden A. J., Dunkley J., Dunner R., Ferraro S., Guan Y., Hill J. C., Hilton G. C., Hilton M., Hlozek R., Huber Z. B., Hubmayr J., Huffenberger K. M., Hughes J. P., Koopman B. J., Kosowsky A., Li Y., Lokken M., Madhavacheril M., McMahon J., Moodley K., Naess S., Nati F., Newburgh L. B., Niemack M. D., Page L. A., Partridge B., Schaan E., Schillaci A., Sifon C., Spergel D. N., Staggs S. T., Ullom J. N., Vale L. R., Van Engelen A., Van Lanen J., Wollack E. J., Xu Z., Vavagiakis, E, Gallardo, P, Calafut, V, Amodeo, S, Aiola, S, Austermann, J, Battaglia, N, Battistelli, E, Beall, J, Bean, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Cothard, N, Devlin, M, Duell, C, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Guan, Y, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Huber, Z, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Li, Y, Lokken, M, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sifon, C, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Ullom, J, Vale, L, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Vavagiakis E. M., Gallardo P. A., Calafut V., Amodeo S., Aiola S., Austermann J. E., Battaglia N., Battistelli E. S., Beall J. A., Bean R., Bond J. R., Calabrese E., Choi S. K., Cothard N. F., Devlin M. J., Duell C. J., Duff S. M., Duivenvoorden A. J., Dunkley J., Dunner R., Ferraro S., Guan Y., Hill J. C., Hilton G. C., Hilton M., Hlozek R., Huber Z. B., Hubmayr J., Huffenberger K. M., Hughes J. P., Koopman B. J., Kosowsky A., Li Y., Lokken M., Madhavacheril M., McMahon J., Moodley K., Naess S., Nati F., Newburgh L. B., Niemack M. D., Page L. A., Partridge B., Schaan E., Schillaci A., Sifon C., Spergel D. N., Staggs S. T., Ullom J. N., Vale L. R., Van Engelen A., Van Lanen J., Wollack E. J., and Xu Z.

Abstract

We present measurements of the average thermal Sunyaev Zel’dovich (tSZ) effect from optically selected galaxy groups and clusters at high signal-to-noise (up to ) and estimate their baryon content within a radius aperture. Sources from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR15 catalog overlap with 3,700 sq deg of sky observed by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 2008 to 2018 at 150 and 98 GHz (ACT DR5), and 2,089 sq deg of internal linear combination component-separated maps combining ACT and Planck data (ACT DR4). The corresponding optical depths , which depend on the baryon content of the halos, are estimated using results from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations assuming an active galactic nuclei feedback radiative cooling model. We estimate the mean mass of the halos in multiple luminosity bins, and compare the tSZ-based estimates to theoretical predictions of the baryon content for a Navarro-Frenk-White profile. We do the same for estimates extracted from fits to pairwise baryon momentum measurements of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect (kSZ) for the same dataset obtained in a companion paper. We find that the estimates from the tSZ measurements in this work and the kSZ measurements in the companion paper agree within for two out of the three disjoint luminosity bins studied, while they differ by in the highest luminosity bin. The optical depth estimates account for one-third to all of the theoretically predicted baryon content in the halos across luminosity bins. Potential systematic uncertainties are discussed. The tSZ and kSZ measurements provide a step toward empirical Compton- relationships to provide new tests of cluster formation and evolution models.

Published
2021

2. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect with SDSS DR15 galaxies ()

Author

Calafut, V, Gallardo, P, Vavagiakis, E, Amodeo, S, Aiola, S, Austermann, J, Battaglia, N, Battistelli, E, Beall, J, Bean, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Cothard, N, Devlin, M, Duell, C, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Guan, Y, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Huber, Z, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Li, Y, Lokken, M, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sifon, C, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Ullom, J, Vale, L, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Calafut V., Gallardo P. A., Vavagiakis E. M., Amodeo S., Aiola S., Austermann J. E., Battaglia N., Battistelli E. S., Beall J. A., Bean R., Bond J. R., Calabrese E., Choi S. K., Cothard N. F., Devlin M. J., Duell C. J., Duff S. M., Duivenvoorden A. J., Dunkley J., Dunner R., Ferraro S., Guan Y., Hill J. C., Hilton G. C., Hilton M., Hlozek R., Huber Z. B., Hubmayr J., Huffenberger K. M., Hughes J. P., Koopman B. J., Kosowsky A., Li Y., Lokken M., Madhavacheril M., McMahon J., Moodley K., Naess S., Nati F., Newburgh L. B., Niemack M. D., Page L. A., Partridge B., Schaan E., Schillaci A., Sifon C., Spergel D. N., Staggs S. T., Ullom J. N., Vale L. R., Van Engelen A., Van Lanen J., Wollack E. J., Xu Z., Calafut, V, Gallardo, P, Vavagiakis, E, Amodeo, S, Aiola, S, Austermann, J, Battaglia, N, Battistelli, E, Beall, J, Bean, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Cothard, N, Devlin, M, Duell, C, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Guan, Y, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Huber, Z, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Li, Y, Lokken, M, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sifon, C, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Ullom, J, Vale, L, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Calafut V., Gallardo P. A., Vavagiakis E. M., Amodeo S., Aiola S., Austermann J. E., Battaglia N., Battistelli E. S., Beall J. A., Bean R., Bond J. R., Calabrese E., Choi S. K., Cothard N. F., Devlin M. J., Duell C. J., Duff S. M., Duivenvoorden A. J., Dunkley J., Dunner R., Ferraro S., Guan Y., Hill J. C., Hilton G. C., Hilton M., Hlozek R., Huber Z. B., Hubmayr J., Huffenberger K. M., Hughes J. P., Koopman B. J., Kosowsky A., Li Y., Lokken M., Madhavacheril M., McMahon J., Moodley K., Naess S., Nati F., Newburgh L. B., Niemack M. D., Page L. A., Partridge B., Schaan E., Schillaci A., Sifon C., Spergel D. N., Staggs S. T., Ullom J. N., Vale L. R., Van Engelen A., Van Lanen J., Wollack E. J., and Xu Z.

Abstract

We present a detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect using Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and Planck CMB observations in combination with Luminous Red Galaxy samples from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR15 catalog. Results are obtained using three ACT CMB maps: co-added 150 and 98 GHz maps, combining observations from 2008-2018 (ACT DR5), which overlap with SDSS DR15 over 3,700 sq. deg., and a component-separated map using night-time only observations from 2014-2015 (ACT DR4), overlapping with SDSS DR15 over 2,089 sq. deg. Comparisons of the results from these three maps provide consistency checks in relation to potential frequency-dependent foreground contamination. A total of 343,647 galaxies are used as tracers to identify and locate galaxy groups and clusters from which the kSZ signal is extracted using aperture photometry. We consider the impact of various aperture photometry assumptions and covariance estimation methods on the signal extraction. Theoretical predictions of the pairwise velocities are used to obtain best-fit, mass-averaged, optical depth estimates for each of five luminosity-selected tracer samples. A comparison of the kSZ-derived optical depth measurements obtained here to those derived from the thermal SZ effect for the same sample is presented in a companion paper.

Published
2021

3. Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Component-separated maps of CMB temperature and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

Author

Madhavacheril, M, Hill, J, Naess, S, Addison, G, Aiola, S, Baildon, T, Battaglia, N, Bean, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Calafut, V, Choi, S, Darwish, O, Datta, R, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Gallardo, P, Gluscevic, V, Halpern, M, Han, D, Hasselfield, M, Hilton, M, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Ho, S, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Lokken, M, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Macinnis, A, Maurin, L, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Robertson, N, Sehgal, N, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sherwin, B, Sifon, C, Simon, S, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Van Engelen, A, Vavagiakis, E, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Madhavacheril M. S., Hill J. C., Naess S., Addison G. E., Aiola S., Baildon T., Battaglia N., Bean R., Bond J. R., Calabrese E., Calafut V., Choi S. K., Darwish O., Datta R., Devlin M. J., Dunkley J., Dunner R., Ferraro S., Gallardo P. A., Gluscevic V., Halpern M., Han D., Hasselfield M., Hilton M., Hincks A. D., HloZek R., Ho S. -P. P., Huffenberger K. M., Hughes J. P., Koopman B. J., Kosowsky A., Lokken M., Louis T., Lungu M., Macinnis A., Maurin L., McMahon J. J., Moodley K., Nati F., Niemack M. D., Page L. A., Partridge B., Robertson N., Sehgal N., Schaan E., Schillaci A., Sherwin B. D., Sifon C., Simon S. M., Spergel D. N., Staggs S. T., Storer E. R., Van Engelen A., Vavagiakis E. M., Wollack E. J., Xu Z., Madhavacheril, M, Hill, J, Naess, S, Addison, G, Aiola, S, Baildon, T, Battaglia, N, Bean, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Calafut, V, Choi, S, Darwish, O, Datta, R, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Gallardo, P, Gluscevic, V, Halpern, M, Han, D, Hasselfield, M, Hilton, M, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Ho, S, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Lokken, M, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Macinnis, A, Maurin, L, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Robertson, N, Sehgal, N, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sherwin, B, Sifon, C, Simon, S, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Van Engelen, A, Vavagiakis, E, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Madhavacheril M. S., Hill J. C., Naess S., Addison G. E., Aiola S., Baildon T., Battaglia N., Bean R., Bond J. R., Calabrese E., Calafut V., Choi S. K., Darwish O., Datta R., Devlin M. J., Dunkley J., Dunner R., Ferraro S., Gallardo P. A., Gluscevic V., Halpern M., Han D., Hasselfield M., Hilton M., Hincks A. D., HloZek R., Ho S. -P. P., Huffenberger K. M., Hughes J. P., Koopman B. J., Kosowsky A., Lokken M., Louis T., Lungu M., Macinnis A., Maurin L., McMahon J. J., Moodley K., Nati F., Niemack M. D., Page L. A., Partridge B., Robertson N., Sehgal N., Schaan E., Schillaci A., Sherwin B. D., Sifon C., Simon S. M., Spergel D. N., Staggs S. T., Storer E. R., Van Engelen A., Vavagiakis E. M., Wollack E. J., and Xu Z.

Abstract

Optimal analyses of many signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) require map-level extraction of individual components in the microwave sky, rather than measurements at the power spectrum level alone. To date, nearly all map-level component separation in CMB analyses has been performed exclusively using satellite data. In this paper, we implement a component separation method based on the internal linear combination (ILC) approach which we have designed to optimally account for the anisotropic noise (in the 2D Fourier domain) often found in ground-based CMB experiments. Using this method, we combine multifrequency data from the Planck satellite and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) to construct the first wide-area (≈2100 sq. deg.), arcminute-resolution component-separated maps of the CMB temperature anisotropy and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect sourced by the inverse-Compton scattering of CMB photons off hot, ionized gas. Our ILC pipeline allows for explicit deprojection of various contaminating signals, including a modified blackbody approximation of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) spectral energy distribution. The cleaned CMB maps will be a useful resource for CMB lensing reconstruction, kinematic SZ cross-correlations, and primordial non-Gaussianity studies. The tSZ maps will be used to study the pressure profiles of galaxies, groups, and clusters through cross-correlations with halo catalogs, with dust contamination controlled via CIB deprojection. The data products described in this paper are available on LAMBDA.

Published
2020

4. Erratum: Evidence of lensing of the cosmic microwave background by dark matter halos (Physical Review Letters (2015) 114 (151302))

Author

Madhavacheril M., Madhavacheril, M, Sehgal, N, Allison, R, Battaglia, N, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Caligiuri, J, Coughlin, K, Crichton, D, Datta, R, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Fogarty, K, Grace, E, Hajian, A, Hasselfield, M, Hill, J, Hilton, M, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Hughes, J, Kosowsky, A, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Munson, C, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Schmitt, B, Sherwin, B, Sievers, J, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Thornton, R, Van Engelen, A, Ward, J, Wollack, E, Madhavacheril M., Sehgal N., Allison R., Battaglia N., Bond J. R., Calabrese E., Caligiuri J., Coughlin K., Crichton D., Datta R., Devlin M. J., Dunkley J., Dunner R., Fogarty K., Grace E., Hajian A., Hasselfield M., Hill J. C., Hilton M., Hincks A. D., Hlozek R., Hughes J. P., Kosowsky A., Louis T., Lungu M., McMahon J., Moodley K., Munson C., Naess S., Nati F., Newburgh L., Niemack M. D., Page L. A., Partridge B., Schmitt B., Sherwin B. D., Sievers J., Spergel D. N., Staggs S. T., Thornton R., Van Engelen A., Ward J. T., Wollack E. J., Madhavacheril M., Madhavacheril, M, Sehgal, N, Allison, R, Battaglia, N, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Caligiuri, J, Coughlin, K, Crichton, D, Datta, R, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Fogarty, K, Grace, E, Hajian, A, Hasselfield, M, Hill, J, Hilton, M, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Hughes, J, Kosowsky, A, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Munson, C, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Schmitt, B, Sherwin, B, Sievers, J, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Thornton, R, Van Engelen, A, Ward, J, Wollack, E, Madhavacheril M., Sehgal N., Allison R., Battaglia N., Bond J. R., Calabrese E., Caligiuri J., Coughlin K., Crichton D., Datta R., Devlin M. J., Dunkley J., Dunner R., Fogarty K., Grace E., Hajian A., Hasselfield M., Hill J. C., Hilton M., Hincks A. D., Hlozek R., Hughes J. P., Kosowsky A., Louis T., Lungu M., McMahon J., Moodley K., Munson C., Naess S., Nati F., Newburgh L., Niemack M. D., Page L. A., Partridge B., Schmitt B., Sherwin B. D., Sievers J., Spergel D. N., Staggs S. T., Thornton R., Van Engelen A., Ward J. T., and Wollack E. J.

Published
2015

5. Two-season Atacama Cosmology Telescope polarimeter lensing power spectrum

Author

Sherwin, BD, Van Engelen, A, Sehgal, N, Madhavacheril, M, Addison, GE, Aiola, S, Allison, R, Battaglia, N, Becker, DT, Beall, JA, Bond, Calabrese, E, Datta, R, Devlin, MJ, Dünner, R, Dunkley, J, Fox, AE, Gallardo, P, Halpern, M, Hasselfield, M, Henderson, S, Hill, JC, Hilton, GC, Hubmayr, J, Hughes, JP, Hincks, AD, Hlozek, R, Huffenberger, KM, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Louis, T, Maurin, L, McMahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, MD, Page, LA, Sievers, J, Spergel, DN, Staggs, ST, Thornton, RJ, Van Lanen, J, Vavagiakis, E, and Wollack, EJ

Subjects
13. Climate action, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 5106 Nuclear and Plasma Physics, 7. Clean energy, 51 Physical Sciences, 5107 Particle and High Energy Physics
Abstract

© 2017 American Physical Society. We report a measurement of the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing from two seasons of Atacama Cosmology Telescope polarimeter (ACTPol) CMB data. The CMB lensing power spectrum is extracted from both temperature and polarization data using quadratic estimators. We obtain results that are consistent with the expectation from the best-fit Planck ΛCDM model over a range of multipoles L=80-2100, with an amplitude of lensing Alens=1.06±0.15(stat)±0.06(sys) relative to Planck. Our measurement of the CMB lensing power spectrum gives σ8Ωm0.25=0.643±0.054; including baryon acoustic oscillation scale data, we constrain the amplitude of density fluctuations to be σ8=0.831±0.053. We also update constraints on the neutrino mass sum. We verify our lensing measurement with a number of null tests and systematic checks, finding no evidence of significant systematic errors. This measurement relies on a small fraction of the ACTPol data already taken; more precise lensing results can therefore be expected from the full ACTPol data set.

6. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the baryon content of SDSS DR15 galaxies with the thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effects

Author

Nick Battaglia, J. P. Hughes, K. Moodley, Erminia Calabrese, Leila R. Vale, David N. Spergel, Michael D. Niemack, Nicholas F. Cothard, R. Hložek, Victoria Calafut, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Lyman A. Page, Rachel Bean, B. Partridge, Shannon M. Duff, S. Ferraro, M. Hilton, J. A. Beall, Gene C. Hilton, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Simone Aiola, Y. Guan, J. R. Bond, Jason E. Austermann, Sigurd Naess, C. Sifon, A. van Engelen, A. Kosowsky, E. Schaan, M. Lokken, J. C. Hill, L. B. Newburgh, S. T. Staggs, Cody J. Duell, Yaqiong Li, J. Van Lanen, Zachary B. Huber, Joel N. Ullom, Alessandro Schillaci, S. Amodeo, Edward J. Wollack, F. Nati, Johannes Hubmayr, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, A. J. Duivenvoorden, R. Dunner, Jo Dunkley, Elia S. Battistelli, Steve K. Choi, M. Madhavacheril, Zhilei Xu, Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Vavagiakis, E, Gallardo, P, Calafut, V, Amodeo, S, Aiola, S, Austermann, J, Battaglia, N, Battistelli, E, Beall, J, Bean, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Cothard, N, Devlin, M, Duell, C, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Guan, Y, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Huber, Z, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Li, Y, Lokken, M, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sifon, C, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Ullom, J, Vale, L, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, Particle and Plasma Physics, Galaxy groups and clusters, 0103 physical sciences, Optical depth (astrophysics), CMB, Cosmology, SZ Effect, Nuclear, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Molecular, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Galaxy, Baryon, 13. Climate action, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Content (measure theory), astro-ph.CO, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present high signal-to-noise measurements (up to 12$\sigma$) of the average thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect from optically selected galaxy groups and clusters and estimate their baryon content within a 2.1$^\prime$ radius aperture. Sources from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) DR15 catalog overlap with 3,700 sq. deg. of sky observed by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 2008 to 2018 at 150 and 98 GHz (ACT DR5), and 2,089 sq. deg. of internal linear combination component-separated maps combining ACT and $\it{Planck}$ data (ACT DR4). The corresponding optical depths, $\bar{\tau}$, which depend on the baryon content of the halos, are estimated using results from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations assuming an AGN feedback radiative cooling model. We estimate the mean mass of the halos in multiple luminosity bins, and compare the tSZ-based $\bar{\tau}$ estimates to theoretical predictions of the baryon content for a Navarro-Frenk-White profile. We do the same for $\bar{\tau}$ estimates extracted from fits to pairwise baryon momentum measurements of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) for the same data set obtained in a companion paper. We find that the $\bar{\tau}$ estimates from the tSZ measurements in this work and the kSZ measurements in the companion paper agree within $1\sigma$ for two out of the three disjoint luminosity bins studied, while they differ by 2-3$\sigma$ in the highest luminosity bin. The optical depth estimates account for one third to all of the theoretically predicted baryon content in the halos across luminosity bins. Potential systematic uncertainties are discussed. The tSZ and kSZ measurements provide a step towards empirical Compton-$\bar{y}$-$\bar{\tau}$ relationships to provide new tests of cluster formation and evolution models., Comment: 19 pages, 9 figures

Published
2021

7. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect with SDSS DR15 galaxies

Author

C. Sifon, S. T. Staggs, E. Schaan, Brian J. Koopman, Edward J. Wollack, M. Lokken, Jeff McMahon, Michael D. Niemack, Johannes Hubmayr, A. van Engelen, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, A. Kosowsky, Nicholas F. Cothard, Victoria Calafut, Elia S. Battistelli, Yaqiong Li, Nick Battaglia, J. Van Lanen, Joel N. Ullom, M. Hilton, Kevin M. Huffenberger, David N. Spergel, F. Nati, Zhilei Xu, Gene C. Hilton, Y. Guan, Alessandro Schillaci, Erminia Calabrese, Jason E. Austermann, Jo Dunkley, Zachary B. Huber, A. J. Duivenvoorden, S. Amodeo, K. Moodley, Leila R. Vale, R. Hložek, Eve M. Vavagiakis, R. Dunner, M. Madhavacheril, Steve K. Choi, Sigurd Naess, J. P. Hughes, J. C. Hill, J. R. Bond, Shannon M. Duff, S. Ferraro, Cody J. Duell, Rachel Bean, B. Partridge, J. A. Beall, L. B. Newburgh, Lyman A. Page, Simone Aiola, Calafut, V, Gallardo, P, Vavagiakis, E, Amodeo, S, Aiola, S, Austermann, J, Battaglia, N, Battistelli, E, Beall, J, Bean, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Cothard, N, Devlin, M, Duell, C, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Guan, Y, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Huber, Z, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Li, Y, Lokken, M, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sifon, C, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Ullom, J, Vale, L, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, Cosmology, Photometry (optics), Galaxy groups and clusters, Particle and Plasma Physics, CMB, Cosmology, SZ Effect, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Molecular, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Galaxy, 13. Climate action, Sky, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, astro-ph.CO, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a 5.4$\sigma$ detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect using Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and $\it{Planck}$ CMB observations in combination with Luminous Red Galaxy samples from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR15 catalog. Results are obtained using three ACT CMB maps: co-added 150 GHz and 98 GHz maps, combining observations from 2008-2018 (ACT DR5), which overlap with SDSS DR15 over 3,700 sq. deg., and a component-separated map using night-time only observations from 2014-2015 (ACT DR4), overlapping with SDSS DR15 over 2,089 sq. deg. Comparisons of the results from these three maps provide consistency checks in relation to potential frequency-dependent foreground contamination. A total of 343,647 galaxies are used as tracers to identify and locate galaxy groups and clusters from which the kSZ signal is extracted using aperture photometry. We consider the impact of various aperture photometry assumptions and covariance estimation methods on the signal extraction. Theoretical predictions of the pairwise velocities are used to obtain best-fit, mass-averaged, optical depth estimates for each of five luminosity-selected tracer samples. A comparison of the kSZ-derived optical depth measurements obtained here to those derived from the thermal SZ effect for the same sample is presented in a companion paper., Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures. Updated to match published version in PRD

Published
2021

8. Atacama Cosmology Telescope: component-separated maps of CMB temperature and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect

Author

Simone Aiola, Michael D. Niemack, Federico Nati, C. Sifon, Brian J. Koopman, Kavilan Moodley, Victoria Calafut, Graeme E. Addison, Jeff McMahon, Matthew Hasselfield, Matt Hilton, Arthur Kosowsky, Nicholas Battaglia, Erminia Calabrese, Alexander van Engelen, Edward J. Wollack, David N. Spergel, Marius Lungu, Joanna Dunkley, J. Richard Bond, Renée Hložek, Alessandro Schillaci, Suzanne T. Staggs, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Emmanuel Schaan, Mark Halpern, Simone Ferraro, Vera Gluscevic, Mark J. Devlin, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Patricio A. Gallardo, Thibaut Louis, Zhilei Xu, Taylor Baildon, Neelima Sehgal, Steve K. Choi, Bruce Partridge, Amanda MacInnis, Lyman A. Page, Loïc Maurin, J. Colin Hill, Naomi Robertson, Blake D. Sherwin, Rachel Bean, Emilie R. Storer, Sigurd Naess, Adam D. Hincks, Rahul Datta, Dongwon Han, Martine Lokken, John P. Hughes, Omar Darwish, Rolando Dünner, Sara M. Simon, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Madhavacheril, M, Hill, J, Naess, S, Addison, G, Aiola, S, Baildon, T, Battaglia, N, Bean, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Calafut, V, Choi, S, Darwish, O, Datta, R, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Gallardo, P, Gluscevic, V, Halpern, M, Han, D, Hasselfield, M, Hilton, M, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Ho, S, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Lokken, M, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Macinnis, A, Maurin, L, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Robertson, N, Sehgal, N, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sherwin, B, Sifon, C, Simon, S, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Van Engelen, A, Vavagiakis, E, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), astro-ph.GA, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, CMB, Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, Particle and Plasma Physics, Cosmic infrared background, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Black-body radiation, 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, Galaxy, Cosmology, 13. Climate action, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Atacama Cosmology Telescope, astro-ph.CO, symbols, Spectral energy distribution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Optimal analyses of many signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) require map-level extraction of individual components in the microwave sky, rather than measurements at the power spectrum level alone. To date, nearly all map-level component separation in CMB analyses has been performed exclusively using satellite data. In this paper, we implement a component separation method based on the internal linear combination (ILC) approach which we have designed to optimally account for the anisotropic noise (in the 2D Fourier domain) often found in ground-based CMB experiments. Using this method, we combine multi-frequency data from the Planck satellite and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) to construct the first wide-area, arcminute-resolution component-separated maps (covering approximately 2100 sq. deg.) of the CMB temperature anisotropy and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect sourced by the inverse-Compton scattering of CMB photons off hot, ionized gas. Our ILC pipeline allows for explicit deprojection of various contaminating signals, including a modified blackbody approximation of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) spectral energy distribution. The cleaned CMB maps will be a useful resource for CMB lensing reconstruction, kinematic SZ cross-correlations, and primordial non-Gaussianity studies. The tSZ maps will be used to study the pressure profiles of galaxies, groups, and clusters through cross-correlations with halo catalogs, with dust contamination controlled via CIB deprojection. The data products described in this paper are available on LAMBDA., Comment: 24 pages, 11 figures, matches version accepted by PRD. Data products are available on LAMBDA at https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/act/act_dr4_derived_maps_get.cfm

Published
2020
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9. Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on cosmic birefringence

Author

Michael D. Niemack, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Sigurd Naess, J. Richard Bond, Adam D. Hincks, Neelima Sehgal, Kavilan Moodley, Loïc Maurin, Thibaut Louis, Joanna Dunkley, Grace E. Chesmore, Frank J. Qu, Omar Darwish, Johannes Hubmayr, Simone Aiola, Gene C. Hilton, Lyman A. Page, Toshiya Namikawa, Rolando Dünner, Maya Mallaby-Kay, C. Sifon, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Daniel T. Becker, Amanda MacInnis, Alexander van Engelen, Renée Hložek, John P. Nibarger, Sara M. Simon, Emilie R. Storer, Matthew Hasselfield, Blake D. Sherwin, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Yilun Guan, Laura Newburgh, Vera Gluscevic, Arthur Kosowsky, Jeff Van Lanen, Edward J. Wollack, Anna E. Fox, Brian J. Koopman, Erminia Calabrese, Jeff McMahon, James A. Beall, Steve K. Choi, Alessandro Schillaci, Naomi Robertson, Nicholas Battaglia, Marius Lungu, John P. Hughes, Suzanne T. Staggs, David N. Spergel, Federico Nati, Dongwon Han, Namikawa, T, Guan, Y, Darwish, O, Sherwin, B, Aiola, S, Battaglia, N, Beall, J, Becker, D, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Chesmore, G, Choi, S, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Fox, A, Gallardo, P, Gluscevic, V, Han, D, Hasselfield, M, Hilton, G, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Macinnis, A, Madhavacheril, M, Mallaby-Kay, M, Maurin, L, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Nibarger, J, Niemack, M, Page, L, Qu, F, Robertson, N, Schillaci, A, Sehgal, N, Sifon, C, Simon, S, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Wollack, E, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
data analysis method, cosmological model, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, cosmic background radiation: polarization, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, power spectrum, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Experiment, current: constraint, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), statistical analysis, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Cosmic Birefringence, CMB, Cosmology, inflation, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Axion, Physics, Birefringence, birefringence, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Chern-Simons term, photon, coupling constant, Polarization (waves), Massless particle, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Amplitude, axion, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], Atacama Cosmology Telescope, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation: anisotropy
Abstract

We present new constraints on anisotropic birefringence of the cosmic microwave background polarization using two seasons of data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope covering $456$ square degrees of sky. The birefringence power spectrum, measured using a curved-sky quadratic estimator, is consistent with zero. Our results provide the tightest current constraint on birefringence over a range of angular scales between $5$ arcminutes and $9$ degrees. We improve previous upper limits on the amplitude of a scale-invariant birefringence power spectrum by a factor of between $2$ and $3$. Assuming a nearly-massless axion field during inflation, our result is equivalent to a $2\,\sigma$ upper limit on the Chern-Simons coupling constant between axions and photons of $g_{\alpha\gamma}, Comment: 18 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in PRD

Published
2020
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10. Evidence of lensing of the cosmic microwave background by dark matter halos

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Rolando Dünner, Edward J. Wollack, Sigurd Naess, Federico Nati, Adam D. Hincks, Nick Battaglia, Kavilan Moodley, Rahul Datta, Benjamin L. Schmitt, J. Colin Hill, Devin Crichton, Lyman A. Page, Mark J. Devlin, M. Lungu, Robert Thornton, Suzanne T. Staggs, Blake D. Sherwin, Matthew Hasselfield, Arthur Kosowsky, Erminia Calabrese, Laura Newburgh, Michael D. Niemack, Jonathan T. Ward, Bruce Partridge, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, J. Richard Bond, Jerod Caligiuri, Jeff McMahon, Kevin Coughlin, Charles Munson, David N. Spergel, Rupert Allison, Neelima Sehgal, Amir Hajian, Matt Hilton, Alexander van Engelen, Emily Grace, Thibaut Louis, John P. Hughes, Joanna Dunkley, Jon Sievers, Kevin Fogarty, Renée Hlozek, Madhavacheril, M, Sehgal, N, Allison, R, Battaglia, N, Bond J., R, Calabrese, E, Caligiuri, J, Coughlin, K, Crichton, D, Datta, R, Devlin Mark, J, Dunkley, J, Dünner, R, Fogarty, K, Grace, E, Hajian, A, Hasselfield, M, Hill J., C, Hilton, M, Hincks Adam, D, Hlozek, R, Hughes John, P, Kosowsky, A, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Munson, C, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack Michael, D, Page Lyman, A, Partridge, B, Schmitt, B, Sherwin Blake, D, Sievers, J, Spergel David, N, Staggs Suzanne, T, Thornton, R, Van Engelen, A, Ward Jonathan, T, and Wollack Edward, J

Subjects
Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Hot dark matter, Strong gravitational lensing, Cosmic microwave background, Dark matter, Scalar field dark matter, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, General Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Dark matter halo, Physics and Astronomy (all), Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Weak gravitational lensing, Dark fluid, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present evidence of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by $10^{13}$ solar mass dark matter halos. Lensing convergence maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) are stacked at the positions of around 12,000 optically-selected CMASS galaxies from the SDSS-III/BOSS survey. The mean lensing signal is consistent with simulated dark matter halo profiles, and is favored over a null signal at 3.2 sigma significance. This result demonstrates the potential of microwave background lensing to probe the dark matter distribution in galaxy group and galaxy cluster halos., 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted by PRL, author list corrected

Published
2015

11. Evidence of lensing of the cosmic microwave background by dark matter halos.

Author

Madhavacheril M, Sehgal N, Allison R, Battaglia N, Bond JR, Calabrese E, Caligiuri J, Coughlin K, Crichton D, Datta R, Devlin MJ, Dunkley J, Dünner R, Fogarty K, Grace E, Hajian A, Hasselfield M, Hill JC, Hilton M, Hincks AD, Hlozek R, Hughes JP, Kosowsky A, Louis T, Lungu M, McMahon J, Moodley K, Munson C, Naess S, Nati F, Newburgh L, Niemack MD, Page LA, Partridge B, Schmitt B, Sherwin BD, Sievers J, Spergel DN, Staggs ST, Thornton R, Van Engelen A, Ward JT, and Wollack EJ

Abstract

We present evidence of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by 10(13) solar mass dark matter halos. Lensing convergence maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) are stacked at the positions of around 12 000 optically selected CMASS galaxies from the SDSS-III/BOSS survey. The mean lensing signal is consistent with simulated dark matter halo profiles and is favored over a null signal at 3.2σ significance. This result demonstrates the potential of microwave background lensing to probe the dark matter distribution in galaxy group and galaxy cluster halos.

Published
2015
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