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1. Dark Energy Survey Year 3: Blue Shear

Author: McCullough, J., Amon, A., Legnani, E., Gruen, D., Roodman, A., Friedrich, O., MacCrann, N., Becker, M. R., Myles, J., Dodelson, S., Samuroff, S., Blazek, J., Prat, J., Honscheid, K., Pieres, A., Ferté, A., Alarcon, A., Drlica-Wagner, A., Choi, A., Navarro-Alsina, A., Campos, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Farahi, A., Ross, A. J., Rosell, A. Carnero, Yin, B., Flaugher, B., Yanny, B., Sánchez, C., Chang, C., Davis, C., To, C., Doux, C., Brooks, D., James, D. J., Cid, D. Sanchez, Hollowood, D. L., Huterer, D., Rykoff, E. S., Gaztanaga, E., Huff, E. M., Suchyta, E., Sheldon, E., Sanchez, E., Tarsitano, F., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Castander, F. J., Bernstein, G. M., Gutierrez, G., Giannini, G., Tarle, G., Diehl, H. T., Huang, H., Harrison, I., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Tutusaus, I., Ferrero, I., Elvin-Poole, J., Marshall, J. L., Muir, J., Weller, J., Zuntz, J., Carretero, J., DeRose, J., Frieman, J., Cordero, J., De Vicente, J., García-Bellido, J., Mena-Fernández, J., Eckert, K., Romer, A. K., Bechtol, K., Herner, K., Kuehn, K., Secco, L. F., da Costa, L. N., Paterno, M., Soares-Santos, 21 M., Gatti, M., Raveri, M., Yamamoto, M., Smith, M., Kind, M. Carrasco, Troxel, M. A., Aguena, M., Jarvis, M., Swanson, M. E. C., Weaverdyck, N., Lahav, O., Doel, P., Wiseman, P., Miquel, R., Gruendl, R. A., Cawthon, R., Allam, S., Hinton, S. R., Bridle, S. L., Bocquet, S., Desai, S., Pandey, S., Everett, S., Lee, S., Shin, T., Palmese, A., Conselice, C., Burke, D. L., Buckley-Geer, E., Lima, M., Vincenzi, M., Pereira, M. E. S., Crocce, M., Schubnell, M., Jeffrey, N., Alves, O., Vikram, V., Zhang, Y., and Collaboration, DES
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Modeling the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies poses a challenge to weak lensing analyses. The Dark Energy Survey is expected to be less impacted by IA when limited to blue, star-forming galaxies. The cosmological parameter constraints from this blue cosmic shear sample are stable to IA model choice, unlike passive galaxies in the full DES Y3 sample, the goodness-of-fit is improved and the $\Omega_{m}$ and $S_8$ better agree with the cosmic microwave background. Mitigating IA with sample selection, instead of flexible model choices, can reduce uncertainty in $S_8$ by a factor of 1.5., Comment: Data access available at https://jamiemccullough.github.io/data/blueshear/
Published: 2024

2. Enhancing weak lensing redshift distribution characterization by optimizing the Dark Energy Survey Self-Organizing Map Photo-z method

Author: Campos, A., Yin, B., Dodelson, S., Amon, A., Alarcon, A., Sánchez, C., Bernstein, G. M., Giannini, G., Myles, J., Samuroff, S., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Blazek, J., Camacho, H., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, R., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Diehl, H. T., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferté, A., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, J., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Wechsler, R. H., Yanny, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Aguena, M., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lima, M., Lin, H., Marshall, J. L., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Paterno, M., Pereira, M. E. S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Sanchez, E., Cid, D. Sanchez, Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Vikram, V., and Weaverdyck, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Characterization of the redshift distribution of ensembles of galaxies is pivotal for large scale structure cosmological studies. In this work, we focus on improving the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) methodology for photometric redshift estimation (SOMPZ), specifically in anticipation of the Dark Energy Survey Year 6 (DES Y6) data. This data set, featuring deeper and fainter galaxies than DES Year 3 (DES Y3), demands adapted techniques to ensure accurate recovery of the underlying redshift distribution. We investigate three strategies for enhancing the existing SOM-based approach used in DES Y3: 1) Replacing the Y3 SOM algorithm with one tailored for redshift estimation challenges; 2) Incorporating $\textit{g}$-band flux information to refine redshift estimates (i.e. using $\textit{griz}$ fluxes as opposed to only $\textit{riz}$); 3) Augmenting redshift data for galaxies where available. These methods are applied to DES Y3 data, and results are compared to the Y3 fiducial ones. Our analysis indicates significant improvements with the first two strategies, notably reducing the overlap between redshift bins. By combining strategies 1 and 2, we have successfully managed to reduce redshift bin overlap in DES Y3 by up to 66$\%$. Conversely, the third strategy, involving the addition of redshift data for selected galaxies as an additional feature in the method, yields inferior results and is abandoned. Our findings contribute to the advancement of weak lensing redshift characterization and lay the groundwork for better redshift characterization in DES Year 6 and future stage IV surveys, like the Rubin Observatory.
Published: 2024

3. Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission

Author: Euclid Collaboration, Mellier, Y., Abdurro'uf, Barroso, J. A. Acevedo, Achúcarro, A., Adamek, J., Adam, R., Addison, G. E., Aghanim, N., Aguena, M., Ajani, V., Akrami, Y., Al-Bahlawan, A., Alavi, A., Albuquerque, I. S., Alestas, G., Alguero, G., Allaoui, A., Allen, S. W., Allevato, V., Alonso-Tetilla, A. V., Altieri, B., Alvarez-Candal, A., Alvi, S., Amara, A., Amendola, L., Amiaux, J., Andika, I. T., Andreon, S., Andrews, A., Angora, G., Angulo, R. E., Annibali, F., Anselmi, A., Anselmi, S., Arcari, S., Archidiacono, M., Aricò, G., Arnaud, M., Arnouts, S., Asgari, M., Asorey, J., Atayde, L., Atek, H., Atrio-Barandela, F., Aubert, M., Aubourg, E., Auphan, T., Auricchio, N., Aussel, B., Aussel, H., Avelino, P. P., Avgoustidis, A., Avila, S., Awan, S., Azzollini, R., Baccigalupi, C., Bachelet, E., Bacon, D., Baes, M., Bagley, M. B., Bahr-Kalus, B., Balaguera-Antolinez, A., Balbinot, E., Balcells, M., Baldi, M., Baldry, I., Balestra, A., Ballardini, M., Ballester, O., Balogh, M., Bañados, E., Barbier, R., Bardelli, S., Baron, M., Barreiro, T., Barrena, R., Barriere, J. -C., Barros, B. J., Barthelemy, A., Bartolo, N., Basset, A., Battaglia, P., Battisti, A. J., Baugh, C. M., Baumont, L., Bazzanini, L., Beaulieu, J. -P., Beckmann, V., Belikov, A. N., Bel, J., Bellagamba, F., Bella, M., Bellini, E., Benabed, K., Bender, R., Benevento, G., Bennett, C. L., Benson, K., Bergamini, P., Bermejo-Climent, J. R., Bernardeau, F., Bertacca, D., Berthe, M., Berthier, J., Bethermin, M., Beutler, F., Bevillon, C., Bhargava, S., Bhatawdekar, R., Bianchi, D., Bisigello, L., Biviano, A., Blake, R. P., Blanchard, A., Blazek, J., Blot, L., Bosco, A., Bodendorf, C., Boenke, T., Böhringer, H., Boldrini, P., Bolzonella, M., Bonchi, A., Bonici, M., Bonino, D., Bonino, L., Bonvin, C., Bon, W., Booth, J. T., Borgani, S., Borlaff, A. 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Magalhaes, Onoue, M., Oosterbroek, T., Oppizzi, F., Ordenovic, C., Osato, K., Pacaud, F., Pace, F., Padilla, C., Paech, K., Pagano, L., Page, M. J., Palazzi, E., Paltani, S., Pamuk, S., Pandolfi, S., Paoletti, D., Paolillo, M., Papaderos, P., Pardede, K., Parimbelli, G., Parmar, A., Partmann, C., Pasian, F., Passalacqua, F., Paterson, K., Patrizii, L., Pattison, C., Paulino-Afonso, A., Paviot, R., Peacock, J. A., Pearce, F. R., Pedersen, K., Peel, A., Peletier, R. F., Ibanez, M. Pellejero, Pello, R., Penny, M. T., Percival, W. J., Perez-Garrido, A., Perotto, L., Pettorino, V., Pezzotta, A., Pezzuto, S., Philippon, A., Pierre, M., Piersanti, O., Pietroni, M., Piga, L., Pilo, L., Pires, S., Pisani, A., Pizzella, A., Pizzuti, L., Plana, C., Polenta, G., Pollack, J. E., Poncet, M., Pöntinen, M., Pool, P., Popa, L. A., Popa, V., Popp, J., Porciani, C., Porth, L., Potter, D., Poulain, M., Pourtsidou, A., Pozzetti, L., Prandoni, I., Pratt, G. W., Prezelus, S., Prieto, E., Pugno, A., Quai, S., Quilley, L., Racca, G. D., Raccanelli, A., Rácz, G., Radinović, S., Radovich, M., Ragagnin, A., Ragnit, U., Raison, F., Ramos-Chernenko, N., Ranc, C., Rasera, Y., Raylet, N., Rebolo, R., Refregier, A., Reimberg, P., Reiprich, T. H., Renk, F., Renzi, A., Retre, J., Revaz, Y., Reylé, C., Reynolds, L., Rhodes, J., Ricci, F., Ricci, M., Riccio, G., Ricken, S. O., Rissanen, S., Risso, I., Rix, H. -W., Robin, A. C., Rocca-Volmerange, B., Rocci, P. -F., Rodenhuis, M., Rodighiero, G., Monroy, M. Rodriguez, Rollins, R. P., Romanello, M., Roman, J., Romelli, E., Romero-Gomez, M., Roncarelli, M., Rosati, P., Rosset, C., Rossetti, E., Roster, W., Rottgering, H. J. A., Rozas-Fernández, A., Ruane, K., Rubino-Martin, J. A., Rudolph, A., Ruppin, F., Rusholme, B., Sacquegna, S., Sáez-Casares, I., Saga, S., Saglia, R., Sahlén, M., Saifollahi, T., Sakr, Z., Salvalaggio, J., Salvaterra, R., Salvati, L., Salvato, M., Salvignol, J. -C., Sánchez, A. G., Sanchez, E., Sanders, D. B., Sapone, D., Saponara, M., Sarpa, E., Sarron, F., Sartori, S., Sartoris, B., Sassolas, B., Sauniere, L., Sauvage, M., Sawicki, M., Scaramella, R., Scarlata, C., Scharré, L., Schaye, J., Schewtschenko, J. A., Schindler, J. -T., Schinnerer, E., Schirmer, M., Schmidt, F., Schmidt, M., Schneider, A., Schneider, M., Schneider, P., Schöneberg, N., Schrabback, T., Schultheis, M., Schulz, S., Schuster, N., Schwartz, J., Sciotti, D., Scodeggio, M., Scognamiglio, D., Scott, D., Scottez, V., Secroun, A., Sefusatti, E., Seidel, G., Seiffert, M., Sellentin, E., Selwood, M., Semboloni, E., Sereno, M., Serjeant, S., Serrano, S., Setnikar, G., Shankar, F., Sharples, R. M., Short, A., Shulevski, A., Shuntov, M., Sias, M., Sikkema, G., Silvestri, A., Simon, P., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Skottfelt, J., Slezak, E., Sluse, D., Smith, G. P., Smith, L. C., Smith, R. E., Smit, S. J. A., Soldano, F., Solheim, B. G. B., Sorce, J. G., Sorrenti, F., Soubrie, E., Spinoglio, L., Mancini, A. Spurio, Stadel, J., Stagnaro, L., Stanco, L., Stanford, S. A., Starck, J. -L., Stassi, P., Steinwagner, J., Stern, D., Stone, C., Strada, P., Strafella, F., Stramaccioni, D., Surace, C., Sureau, F., Suyu, S. H., Swindells, I., Szafraniec, M., Szapudi, I., Taamoli, S., Talia, M., Tallada-Crespí, P., Tanidis, K., Tao, C., Tarrío, P., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A. N., Taylor, J. E., Taylor, P. L., Teixeira, E. M., Tenti, M., Idiago, P. Teodoro, Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Tessore, N., Testa, V., Testera, G., Tewes, M., Teyssier, R., Theret, N., Thizy, C., Thomas, P. D., Toba, Y., Toft, S., Toledo-Moreo, R., Tolstoy, E., Tommasi, E., Torbaniuk, O., Torradeflot, F., Tortora, C., Tosi, S., Tosti, S., Trifoglio, M., Troja, A., Trombetti, T., Tronconi, A., Tsedrik, M., Tsyganov, A., Tucci, M., Tutusaus, I., Uhlemann, C., Ulivi, L., Urbano, M., Vacher, L., Vaillon, L., Valageas, P., Valdes, I., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Valieri, C., Valiviita, J., Broeck, M. Van den, Vassallo, T., Vavrek, R., Vega-Ferrero, J., Venemans, B., Venhola, A., Ventura, S., Kleijn, G. Verdoes, Vergani, D., Verma, A., Vernizzi, F., Veropalumbo, A., Verza, G., Vescovi, C., Vibert, D., Viel, M., Vielzeuf, P., Viglione, C., Viitanen, A., Villaescusa-Navarro, F., Vinciguerra, S., Visticot, F., Voggel, K., von Wietersheim-Kramsta, M., Vriend, W. J., Wachter, S., Walmsley, M., Walth, G., Walton, D. M., Walton, N. A., Wander, M., Wang, L., Wang, Y., Weaver, J. R., Weller, J., Wetzstein, M., Whalen, D. J., Whittam, I. H., Widmer, A., Wiesmann, M., Wilde, J., Williams, O. R., Winther, H. -A., Wittje, A., Wong, J. H. W., Wright, A. H., Yankelevich, V., Yeung, H. W., Yoon, M., Youles, S., Yung, L. Y. A., Zacchei, A., Zalesky, L., Zamorani, G., Vitorelli, A. Zamorano, Marc, M. Zanoni, Zennaro, M., Zerbi, F. M., Zinchenko, I. A., Zoubian, J., Zucca, E., and Zumalacarregui, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The current standard model of cosmology successfully describes a variety of measurements, but the nature of its main ingredients, dark matter and dark energy, remains unknown. Euclid is a medium-class mission in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) that will provide high-resolution optical imaging, as well as near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy, over about 14,000 deg^2 of extragalactic sky. In addition to accurate weak lensing and clustering measurements that probe structure formation over half of the age of the Universe, its primary probes for cosmology, these exquisite data will enable a wide range of science. This paper provides a high-level overview of the mission, summarising the survey characteristics, the various data-processing steps, and data products. We also highlight the main science objectives and expected performance., Comment: Accepted for publication in the A&A special issue`Euclid on Sky'
Published: 2024

4. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: simulation-based cosmological inference with wavelet harmonics, scattering transforms, and moments of weak lensing mass maps II. Cosmological results

Author: Gatti, M., Campailla, G., Jeffrey, N., Whiteway, L., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Williamson, J., Raveri, M., Jain, B., Ajani, V., Giannini, G., Yamamoto, M., Zhou, C., Blazek, J., Anbajagane, D., Samuroff, S., Kacprzak, T., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Bechtol, K., Becker, M., Bernstein, G., Campos, A., Chang, C., Chen, R., Choi, A., Davis, C., Derose, J., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferte, A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. F., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Sanchez, C., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S. S., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carretero, J., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Ferrero, I., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, S., Marshall, J. L., Mena-Fernández, J., Miquel, R., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Sanchez, E., Cid, D. Sanchez, Schubnell, M., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Weaverdyck, N., Weller, J., and Wiseman, P.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a simulation-based cosmological analysis using a combination of Gaussian and non-Gaussian statistics of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years (Y3) of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We implement: 1) second and third moments; 2) wavelet phase harmonics; 3) the scattering transform. Our analysis is fully based on simulations, spans a space of seven $\nu w$CDM cosmological parameters, and forward models the most relevant sources of systematics inherent in the data: masks, noise variations, clustering of the sources, intrinsic alignments, and shear and redshift calibration. We implement a neural network compression of the summary statistics, and we estimate the parameter posteriors using a simulation-based inference approach. Including and combining different non-Gaussian statistics is a powerful tool that strongly improves constraints over Gaussian statistics (in our case, the second moments); in particular, the Figure of Merit $\textrm{FoM}(S_8, \Omega_{\textrm{m}})$ is improved by 70 percent ($\Lambda$CDM) and 90 percent ($w$CDM). When all the summary statistics are combined, we achieve a 2 percent constraint on the amplitude of fluctuations parameter $S_8 \equiv \sigma_8 (\Omega_{\textrm{m}}/0.3)^{0.5}$, obtaining $S_8 = 0.794 \pm 0.017$ ($\Lambda$CDM) and $S_8 = 0.817 \pm 0.021$ ($w$CDM). The constraints from different statistics are shown to be internally consistent (with a $p$-value>0.1 for all combinations of statistics examined). We compare our results to other weak lensing results from the DES Y3 data, finding good consistency; we also compare with results from external datasets, such as \planck{} constraints from the Cosmic Microwave Background, finding statistical agreement, with discrepancies no greater than $<2.2\sigma$., Comment: 24 pages, 13 figures, to be submitted to PRD. Comments welcome!
Published: 2024

5. Weak lensing combined with the kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect: A study of baryonic feedback

Author: Bigwood, L., Amon, A., Schneider, A., Salcido, J., McCarthy, I. G., Preston, C., Sanchez, D., Sijacki, D., Schaan, E., Ferraro, S., Battaglia, N., Chen, A., Dodelson, S., Roodman, A., Pieres, A., Ferte, A., Alarcon, A., Drlica-Wagner, A., Choi, A., Navarro-Alsina, A., Campos, A., Ross, A. J., Rosell, A. Carnero, Yin, B., Yanny, B., Sanchez, C., Chang, C., Davis, C., Doux, C., Gruen, D., Rykoff, E. S., Huff, E. M., Sheldon, E., Tarsitano, F., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bernstein, G. M., Giannini, G., Diehl, H. T., Huang, H., Harrison, I., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Tutusaus, I., Elvin-Poole, J., McCullough, J., Zuntz, J., Blazek, J., DeRose, J., Cordero, J., Prat, J., Myles, J., Eckert, K., Bechtol, K., Herner, K., Secco, L. F., Gatti, M., Raveri, M., Kind, M. Carrasco, Becker, M. R., Troxel, M. A., Jarvis, M., MacCrann, N., Friedrich, O., Alves, O., Leget, P. -F., Chen, R., Rollins, R. P., Wechsler, R. H., Gruendl, R. A., Cawthon, R., Allam, S., Bridle, S. L., Pandey, S., Everett, S., Shin, T., Hartley, W. G., Fang, X., Zhang, Y., Aguena, M., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huterer, D., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, S., Marshall, J. L., Mena-Fernandez, J., Miquel, R., Muir, J., Paterno, M., Malagon, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Romer, A. K., Samuroff, S., Sanchez, E., Cid, D. Sanchez, Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Weaverdyck, N., Weller, J., Wiseman, P., and Yamamoto, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: Extracting precise cosmology from weak lensing surveys requires modelling the non-linear matter power spectrum, which is suppressed at small scales due to baryonic feedback processes. However, hydrodynamical galaxy formation simulations make widely varying predictions for the amplitude and extent of this effect. We use measurements of Dark Energy Survey Year 3 weak lensing (WL) and Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR5 kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) to jointly constrain cosmological and astrophysical baryonic feedback parameters using a flexible analytical model, `baryonification'. First, using WL only, we compare the $S_8$ constraints using baryonification to a simulation-calibrated halo model, a simulation-based emulator model and the approach of discarding WL measurements on small angular scales. We find that model flexibility can shift the value of $S_8$ and degrade the uncertainty. The kSZ provides additional constraints on the astrophysical parameters and shifts $S_8$ to $S_8=0.823^{+0.019}_{-0.020}$, a higher value than attained using the WL-only analysis. We measure the suppression of the non-linear matter power spectrum using WL + kSZ and constrain a mean feedback scenario that is more extreme than the predictions from most hydrodynamical simulations. We constrain the baryon fractions and the gas mass fractions and find them to be generally lower than inferred from X-ray observations and simulation predictions. We conclude that the WL + kSZ measurements provide a new and complementary benchmark for building a coherent picture of the impact of gas around galaxies across observations.
Published: 2024

6. SPT Clusters with DES and HST Weak Lensing. II. Cosmological Constraints from the Abundance of Massive Halos

Author: Bocquet, S., Grandis, S., Bleem, L. E., Klein, M., Mohr, J. J., Schrabback, T., Abbott, T. M. C., Ade, P. A. R., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Allen, S. W., Alves, O., Amon, A., Anderson, A. J., Annis, J., Ansarinejad, B., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bayliss, M., Beall, J. A., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bhargava, S., Bianchini, F., Brodwin, M., Brooks, D., Bryant, L., Campos, A., Canning, R. E. A., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C. L., Chang, C., Chaubal, P., Chen, R., Chiang, H. C., Choi, A., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Cordero, J., Costanzi, M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, C., Davis, T. M., DeRose, J., Desai, S., de Haan, T., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flores, A. M., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., George, E. M., Giannini, G., Gladders, M. D., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Irwin, K. D., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Khullar, G., Kim, K., Knox, L., Kraft, R., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Kéruzoré, F., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Leget, P. -F., Li, D., Lin, H., Lowitz, A., MacCrann, N., Mahler, G., Mantz, A., Marshall, J. L., McCullough, J., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Montgomery, J., Myles, J., Natoli, T., Navarro-Alsina, A., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pandey, S., Paschos, P., Patil, S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Prat, J., Pryke, C., Raveri, M., Reichardt, C. L., Roberson, J., Rollins, R. P., Romero, C., Roodman, A., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Saliwanchik, B. R., Salvati, L., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Cid, D. Sanchez, Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sharon, K., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Somboonpanyakul, T., Sommer, M., Stalder, B., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Strazzullo, V., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., To, C., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, C., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Vikhlinin, A., von der Linden, A., Wang, G., Weaverdyck, N., Weller, J., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yefremenko, V., Yin, B., Young, M., Zebrowski, J. A., Zhang, Y., Zohren, H., and Zuntz, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present cosmological constraints from the abundance of galaxy clusters selected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in South Pole Telescope (SPT) data with a simultaneous mass calibration using weak gravitational lensing data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The cluster sample is constructed from the combined SPT-SZ, SPTpol ECS, and SPTpol 500d surveys, and comprises 1,005 confirmed clusters in the redshift range $0.25-1.78$ over a total sky area of 5,200 deg$^2$. We use DES Year 3 weak-lensing data for 688 clusters with redshifts $z<0.95$ and HST weak-lensing data for 39 clusters with $0.6
Published: 2024

7. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: simulation-based cosmological inference with wavelet harmonics, scattering transforms, and moments of weak lensing mass maps I: validation on simulations

Author: Gatti, M., Jeffrey, N., Whiteway, L., Williamson, J., Jain, B., Ajani, V., Anbajagane, D., Giannini, G., Zhou, C., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Yamamoto, M., Blazek, J., Kacprzak, T., Samuroff, S., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Bechtol, K., Becker, M., Bernstein, G., Campos, A., Chang, C., Chen, R., Choi, A., Davis, C., Derose, J., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferte, A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. F., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Sanchez, C., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Aguena, M., Alves, O., Annis, J., Brooks, D., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, S., Marshall, J. L., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Pereira, M. E. S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Sanchez, E., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Weaverdyck, N., Weller, J., and Wiseman, P.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Beyond-two-point statistics contain additional information on cosmological as well as astrophysical and observational (systematics) parameters. In this methodology paper we provide an end-to-end simulation-based analysis of a set of Gaussian and non-Gaussian weak lensing statistics using detailed mock catalogues of the Dark Energy Survey. We implement: 1) second and third moments; 2) wavelet phase harmonics (WPH); 3) the scattering transform (ST). Our analysis is fully based on simulations, it spans a space of seven $\nu w$CDM cosmological parameters, and it forward models the most relevant sources of systematics of the data (masks, noise variations, clustering of the sources, intrinsic alignments, and shear and redshift calibration). We implement a neural network compression of the summary statistics, and we estimate the parameter posteriors using a likelihood-free-inference approach. We validate the pipeline extensively, and we find that WPH exhibits the strongest performance when combined with second moments, followed by ST. and then by third moments. The combination of all the different statistics further enhances constraints with respect to second moments, up to 25 per cent, 15 per cent, and 90 per cent for $S_8$, $\Omega_{\rm m}$, and the Figure-Of-Merit ${\rm FoM_{S_8,\Omega_{\rm m}}}$, respectively. We further find that non-Gaussian statistics improve constraints on $w$ and on the amplitude of intrinsic alignment with respect to second moments constraints. The methodological advances presented here are suitable for application to Stage IV surveys from Euclid, Rubin-LSST, and Roman with additional validation on mock catalogues for each survey. In a companion paper we present an application to DES Year 3 data., Comment: 25 pages, 18 figures. Comments welcome!
Published: 2023

8. SPT Clusters with DES and HST Weak Lensing. I. Cluster Lensing and Bayesian Population Modeling of Multi-Wavelength Cluster Datasets

Author: Bocquet, S., Grandis, S., Bleem, L. E., Klein, M., Mohr, J. J., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Allen, S. W., Alves, O., Amon, A., Ansarinejad, B., Bacon, D., Bayliss, M., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Brodwin, M., Brooks, D., Campos, A., Canning, R. E. A., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, R., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, C., de Haan, T., DeRose, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flores, A. M., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gladders, M. D., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Huang, N., Huff, E. M., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Kéruzoré, F., Khullar, G., Kim, K., Kraft, R., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lee, S., Leget, P. -F., MacCrann, N., Mahler, G., Mantz, A., Marshall, J. L., McCullough, J., McDonald, M., Mena-Fernández, J., Miquel, R., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Pandey, S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Prat, J., Raveri, M., Reichardt, C. L., Roberson, J., Rollins, R. P., Romer, A. K., Romero, C., Roodman, A., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Salvati, L., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Cid, D. Sanchez, Saro, A., Schrabback, T., Schubnell, M., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sharon, K., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Smith, M., Somboonpanyakul, T., Stalder, B., Stark, A. A., Strazzullo, V., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., von der Linden, A., Weaverdyck, N., Weller, J., Wiseman, P., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Young, M., Zhang, Y., and Zuntz, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a Bayesian population modeling method to analyze the abundance of galaxy clusters identified by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) with a simultaneous mass calibration using weak gravitational lensing data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We discuss and validate the modeling choices with a particular focus on a robust, weak-lensing-based mass calibration using DES data. For the DES Year 3 data, we report a systematic uncertainty in weak-lensing mass calibration that increases from 1% at $z=0.25$ to 10% at $z=0.95$, to which we add 2% in quadrature to account for uncertainties in the impact of baryonic effects. We implement an analysis pipeline that joins the cluster abundance likelihood with a multi-observable likelihood for the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, optical richness, and weak-lensing measurements for each individual cluster. We validate that our analysis pipeline can recover unbiased cosmological constraints by analyzing mocks that closely resemble the cluster sample extracted from the SPT-SZ, SPTpol ECS, and SPTpol 500d surveys and the DES Year 3 and HST-39 weak-lensing datasets. This work represents a crucial prerequisite for the subsequent cosmological analysis of the real dataset., Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D. arXiv v2 corresponds to published article
Published: 2023

9. Beyond the 3rd moment: A practical study of using lensing convergence CDFs for cosmology with DES Y3

Author: Anbajagane, D., Chang, C., Banerjee, A., Abel, T., Gatti, M., Ajani, V., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Baxter, E. J., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Chen, R., Choi, A., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fert'e, A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Huff, E. M., Jain, B., Jarvis, M., Jeffrey, N., Kacprzak, T., Kokron, N., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, C., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Whiteway, L., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Abbott, T. M. C., Allam, S., Aguena, M., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Blazek, J., Brooks, D., Cawthon, R., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, T. M., Desai, S., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Frieman, J., Giannini, G., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Marshall, J. L., Mena-Fernandez, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Palmese, A., Pieres, A., Malag'on, A. A. Plazas, Reil, K., Sanchez, E., Smith, M., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., and Wiseman, P.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Widefield surveys of the sky probe many clustered scalar fields -- such as galaxy counts, lensing potential, gas pressure, etc. -- that are sensitive to different cosmological and astrophysical processes. Our ability to constrain such processes from these fields depends crucially on the statistics chosen to summarize the field. In this work, we explore the cumulative distribution function (CDF) at multiple scales as a summary of the galaxy lensing convergence field. Using a suite of N-body lightcone simulations, we show the CDFs' constraining power is modestly better than that of the 2nd and 3rd moments of the field, as they approximately capture the information from all moments of the field in a concise data vector. We then study the practical aspects of applying the CDFs to observational data, using the first three years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3) data as an example, and compute the impact of different systematics on the CDFs. The contributions from the point spread function are 2-3 orders of magnitude below the cosmological signal, while those from reduced shear approximation contribute $\lesssim 1\%$ to the signal. Source clustering effects and baryon imprints contribute $1-10\%$. Enforcing scale cuts to limit systematics-driven biases in parameter constraints degrades these constraints a noticeable amount, and this degradation is similar for the CDFs and the moments. We also detect correlations between the observed convergence field and the shape noise field at $13\sigma$. We find that the non-Gaussian correlations in the noise field must be modeled accurately to use the CDFs, or other statistics sensitive to all moments, as a rigorous cosmology tool., Comment: 21 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2023

10. Detection of the significant impact of source clustering on higher-order statistics with DES Year 3 weak gravitational lensing data

Author: Gatti, M., Jeffrey, N., Whiteway, L., Ajani, V., Kacprzak, T., Zürcher, D., Chang, C., Jain, B., Blazek, J., Krause, E., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Bechtol, K., Becker, M., Bernstein, G., Campos, A., Chen, R., Choi, A., Davis, C., Derose, J., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferte, A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. F., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Sanchez, C., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Allam, S. S., Alves, O., Aguena, M., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carretero, J., Cawthon, R., da Costa, L. N., Davis, T. M., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Doel, P., García-Bellido, J., Giannini, G., Gutierrez, G., Ferrero, I., Frieman, J., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Marshall, J. L., Mena-Fernández, J., Miquel, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Pereira, M. E. S., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Samuroff, S., Sanchez, E., Schubnell, M., Smith, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Weaverdyck, N., and Wiseman, P.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We demonstrate and measure the impact of source galaxy clustering on higher-order summary statistics of weak gravitational lensing data. By comparing simulated data with galaxies that either trace or do not trace the underlying density field, we show this effect can exceed measurement uncertainties for common higher-order statistics for certain analysis choices. Source clustering effects are larger at small scales and for statistics applied to combinations of low and high redshift samples, and diminish at high redshift. We evaluate the impact on different weak lensing observables, finding that third moments and wavelet phase harmonics are more affected than peak count statistics. Using Dark Energy Survey Year 3 data we construct null tests for the source-clustering-free case, finding a $p$-value of $p=4\times10^{-3}$ (2.6 $\sigma$) using third-order map moments and $p=3\times10^{-11}$ (6.5 $\sigma$) using wavelet phase harmonics. The impact of source clustering on cosmological inference can be either be included in the model or minimized through \textit{ad-hoc} procedures (e.g. scale cuts). We verify that the procedures adopted in existing DES Y3 cosmological analyses (using map moments and peaks) were sufficient to render this effect negligible. Failing to account for source clustering can significantly impact cosmological inference from higher-order gravitational lensing statistics, e.g. higher-order N-point functions, wavelet-moment observables (including phase harmonics and scattering transforms), and deep learning or field level summary statistics of weak lensing maps. We provide recipes both to minimise the impact of source clustering and to incorporate source clustering effects into forward-modelled mock data., Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS Letters
Published: 2023

11. DES Y3 + KiDS-1000: Consistent cosmology combining cosmic shear surveys

Author: Survey, Dark Energy, Collaboration, Kilo-Degree Survey, Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Asgari, M., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Bilicki, M., Blazek, J., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burger, P., Burke, D. L., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, R., Choi, A., Conselice, C., Cordero, J., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. da Silva, Dalal, R., Davis, C., de Jong, J. T. A., DeRose, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Dvornik, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flaugher, B., Friedrich, O., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Giblin, B., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Heymans, C., Hildebrandt, H., Hinton, S. R., Hoekstra, H., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Jeffrey, N., Jeltema, T., Joachimi, B., Joudaki, S., Kannawadi, A., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuijken, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Li, S. -S., Li, X., Liddle, A. R., Lima, M., Lin, C. -A, Lin, H., MacCrann, N., Mahony, C., Marshall, J. L., McCullough, J., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Napolitano, N., Navarro-Alsina, A., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Paterno, M., Peacock, J. A., Petravick, D., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Prat, J., Radovich, M., Raveri, M., Reischke, R., Robertson, N. C., Rollins, R. P., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rykoff, E. S., Samuroff, S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Sanchez, J., Schneider, P., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Shan, H. -Y., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Sifón, C., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Stölzner, B., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Troxel, M. A., Tröster, T., Tutusaus, I., Busch, J. L. van den, Varga, T. N., Walker, A. R., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Wiseman, P., Wright, A. H., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Yoon, M., Zhang, Y., and Zuntz, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a joint cosmic shear analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3) and the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) in a collaborative effort between the two survey teams. We find consistent cosmological parameter constraints between DES Y3 and KiDS-1000 which, when combined in a joint-survey analysis, constrain the parameter $S_8 = \sigma_8 \sqrt{\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3}$ with a mean value of $0.790^{+0.018}_{-0.014}$. The mean marginal is lower than the maximum a posteriori estimate, $S_8=0.801$, owing to skewness in the marginal distribution and projection effects in the multi-dimensional parameter space. Our results are consistent with $S_8$ constraints from observations of the cosmic microwave background by Planck, with agreement at the $1.7\sigma$ level. We use a Hybrid analysis pipeline, defined from a mock survey study quantifying the impact of the different analysis choices originally adopted by each survey team. We review intrinsic alignment models, baryon feedback mitigation strategies, priors, samplers and models of the non-linear matter power spectrum., Comment: 40 pages, 21 figures, 15 tables, accepted Open Journal of Astrophysics. Download the chains from https://des.ncsa.illinois.edu/releases/y3a2/Y3key-joint-des-kids or create your own chains with CosmoSIS using https://github.com/joezuntz/cosmosis-standard-library/blob/main/examples/des-y3_and_kids-1000.ini Watch the core team discuss this analysis at https://cosmologytalks.com/2023/05/26/des-kids
Published: 2023
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12. The Dark Energy Survey Year 3 and eBOSS: constraining galaxy intrinsic alignments across luminosity and colour space

Author: Samuroff, S., Mandelbaum, R., Blazek, J., Campos, A., MacCrann, N., Zacharegkas, G., Amon, A., Prat, J., Singh, S., Elvin-Poole, J., Ross, A. J., Alarcon, A., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, R., Choi, A., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Everett, S., Ferté, A., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., McCullough, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Porredon, A., Raveri, M., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rossi, G., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Weaverdyck, N., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Aguena, J. Zuntz M., Alves, O., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Newman, J., Palmese, A., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., and To, C.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present direct constraints on galaxy intrinsic alignments using the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3), the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) and its precursor, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Our measurements incorporate photometric red sequence (redMaGiC) galaxies from DES with median redshift $z\sim0.2-1.0$, luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from eBOSS at $z\sim0.8$, and also a SDSS-III BOSS CMASS sample at $z\sim0.5$. We measure two point intrinsic alignment correlations, which we fit using a model that includes lensing, magnification and photometric redshift error. Fitting on scales $6
Published: 2022
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13. Non-local contribution from small scales in galaxy-galaxy lensing: Comparison of mitigation schemes

Author: Prat, J., Zacharegkas, G., Park, Y., MacCrann, N., Switzer, E. R., Pandey, S., Chang, C., Blazek, J., Miquel, R., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Chen, R., Choi, A., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Cordero, J., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., McCullough, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Porredon, A., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Gerdes, D. W., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Lima, M., Menanteau, F., Mena-Fernández, J., Palmese, A., Paterno, M., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Sanchez, E., Schubnell, M., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Weaverdyck, N., and Weller, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Recent cosmological analyses with large-scale structure and weak lensing measurements, usually referred to as 3$\times$2pt, had to discard a lot of signal-to-noise from small scales due to our inability to accurately model non-linearities and baryonic effects. Galaxy-galaxy lensing, or the position-shear correlation between lens and source galaxies, is one of the three two-point correlation functions that are included in such analyses, usually estimated with the mean tangential shear. However, tangential shear measurements at a given angular scale $\theta$ or physical scale $R$ carry information from all scales below that, forcing the scale cuts applied in real data to be significantly larger than the scale at which theoretical uncertainties become problematic. Recently there have been a few independent efforts that aim to mitigate the non-locality of the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal. Here we perform a comparison of the different methods, including the Y-transformation, the Point-Mass marginalization methodology and the Annular Differential Surface Density statistic. We do the comparison at the cosmological constraints level in a combined galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing analysis. We find that all the estimators yield equivalent cosmological results assuming a simulated Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Year 1 like setup and also when applied to DES Y3 data. With the LSST Y1 setup, we find that the mitigation schemes yield $\sim$1.3 times more constraining $S_8$ results than applying larger scale cuts without using any mitigation scheme., Comment: 11+4 pages, 4+4 figures. Matches the accepted version in MNRAS
Published: 2022
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14. The Dark Energy Survey Year 3 high redshift sample: Selection, characterization and analysis of galaxy clustering

Author: Sánchez, C., Alarcon, A., Bernstein, G. M., Sanchez, J., Pandey, S., Raveri, M., Prat, J., Weaverdyck, N., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Chang, C., Baxter, E., Omori, Y., Jain, B., Alves, O., Amon, A., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Blazek, J., Choi, A., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Crocce, M., Cross, D., DeRose, J., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Fosalba, P., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Kuropatkin, N., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Myles, J., Krause, E., Porredon, A., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Rykoff, E. S., Secco, L. F., Sheldon, E., Troxel, M. A., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., Pereira, M. E. S., Desai, S., Doel, P., Doux, C., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gutierrez, G., Herner, K., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Marshall, J. L., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., and To, C.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The fiducial cosmological analyses of imaging galaxy surveys like the Dark Energy Survey (DES) typically probe the Universe at redshifts $z < 1$. This is mainly because of the limited depth of these surveys, and also because such analyses rely heavily on galaxy lensing, which is more efficient at low redshifts. In this work we present the selection and characterization of high-redshift galaxy samples using DES Year 3 data, and the analysis of their galaxy clustering measurements. In particular, we use galaxies that are fainter than those used in the previous DES Year 3 analyses and a Bayesian redshift scheme to define three tomographic bins with mean redshifts around $z \sim 0.9$, $1.2$ and $1.5$, which significantly extend the redshift coverage of the fiducial DES Year 3 analysis. These samples contain a total of about 9 million galaxies, and their galaxy density is more than 2 times higher than those in the DES Year 3 fiducial case. We characterize the redshift uncertainties of the samples, including the usage of various spectroscopic and high-quality redshift samples, and we develop a machine-learning method to correct for correlations between galaxy density and survey observing conditions. The analysis of galaxy clustering measurements, with a total signal-to-noise $S/N \sim 70$ after scale cuts, yields robust cosmological constraints on a combination of the fraction of matter in the Universe $\Omega_m$ and the Hubble parameter $h$, $\Omega_m h = 0.195^{+0.023}_{-0.018}$, and 2-3% measurements of the amplitude of the galaxy clustering signals, probing galaxy bias and the amplitude of matter fluctuations, $b \sigma_8$. A companion paper $\textit{(in preparation)}$ will present the cross-correlations of these high-$z$ samples with CMB lensing from Planck and SPT, and the cosmological analysis of those measurements in combination with the galaxy clustering presented in this work., Comment: 28 pages, 25 figures. To be submitted to MNRAS. Comments welcome
Published: 2022

15. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Magnification modeling and impact on cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing

Author: Elvin-Poole, J., MacCrann, N., Everett, S., Prat, J., Rykoff, E. S., De Vicente, J., Yanny, B., Herner, K., Ferté, A., Di Valentino, E., Choi, A., Burke, D. L., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Blazek, J., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, R., Cordero, J., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Fang, X., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Raveri, M., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Secco, L. F., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Aguena, M., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., García-Bellido, J., Honscheid, K., Jarvis, M., Li, T. S., Mena-Fernández, J., To, C., and Wilkinson, R. D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We study the effect of magnification in the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing, using two different lens samples: a sample of Luminous red galaxies, redMaGiC, and a sample with a redshift-dependent magnitude limit, MagLim. We account for the effect of magnification on both the flux and size selection of galaxies, accounting for systematic effects using the Balrog image simulations. We estimate the impact of magnification on the galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing cosmology analysis, finding it to be a significant systematic for the MagLim sample. We show cosmological constraints from the galaxy clustering auto-correlation and galaxy-galaxy lensing signal with different magnifications priors, finding broad consistency in cosmological parameters in $\Lambda$CDM and $w$CDM. However, when magnification bias amplitude is allowed to be free, we find the two-point correlations functions prefer a different amplitude to the fiducial input derived from the image simulations. We validate the magnification analysis by comparing the cross-clustering between lens bins with the prediction from the baseline analysis, which uses only the auto-correlation of the lens bins, indicating systematics other than magnification may be the cause of the discrepancy. We show adding the cross-clustering between lens redshift bins to the fit significantly improves the constraints on lens magnification parameters and allows uninformative priors to be used on magnification coefficients, without any loss of constraining power or prior volume concerns., Comment: Version accepted for publication in MNRAS. 21 pages, 13 figures, See this https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/ URL for the full DES Y3 cosmology release
Published: 2022
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16. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Redshift Calibration of the MagLim Lens Sample from the combination of SOMPZ and clustering and its impact on Cosmology

Author: Giannini, G., Alarcon, A., Gatti, M., Porredon, A., Crocce, M., Bernstein, G. M., Cawthon, R., Sánchez, C., Doux, C., Elvin-Poole, J., Raveri, M., Myles, J., Amon, A., Allam, S., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Blazek, J., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Choi, A., Cordero, J., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Everett, S., Fang, X., Farahi, A., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Lemos, P., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Pandey, S., Prat, J., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Samuroff, S., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, D. L., Weaverdyck, N., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Desai, S., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kent, S., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lidman, C., Lima, M., Melchior, P., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Paterno, M., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., and Vincenzi, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present an alternative calibration of the MagLim lens sample redshift distributions from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) first three years of data (Y3). The new calibration is based on a combination of a Self-Organising Maps based scheme and clustering redshifts to estimate redshift distributions and inherent uncertainties, which is expected to be more accurate than the original DES Y3 redshift calibration of the lens sample. We describe in detail the methodology, we validate it on simulations and discuss the main effects dominating our error budget. The new calibration is in fair agreement with the fiducial DES Y3 redshift distributions calibration, with only mild differences ($<3\sigma$) in the means and widths of the distributions. We study the impact of this new calibration on cosmological constraints, analysing DES Y3 galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements, assuming a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. We obtain $\Omega_{\rm m} = 0.30\pm 0.04$, $\sigma_8 = 0.81\pm 0.07 $ and $S_8 = 0.81\pm 0.04$, which implies a $\sim 0.4\sigma$ shift in the $\Omega_{\rm}-S_8$ plane compared to the fiducial DES Y3 results, highlighting the importance of the redshift calibration of the lens sample in multi-probe cosmological analyses.
Published: 2022
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17. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Constraints on extensions to $\Lambda$CDM with weak lensing and galaxy clustering

Author: DES Collaboration, Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Birrer, S., Blazek, J., Bocquet, S., Brandao-Souza, A., Bridle, S. L., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, A., Chen, R., Choi, A., Conselice, C., Cordero, J., Costanzi, M., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, C., Davis, T. M., DeRose, J., Desai, S., Di Valentino, E., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Farahi, A., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Friedel, D., Friedrich, O., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., Giani, L., Giannantonio, T., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hamaus, N., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Jeffrey, N., Jeltema, T., Kovacs, A., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, S., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Leonard, C. D., Liddle, A. R., Lima, M., Lin, H., MacCrann, N., Marshall, J. L., McCullough, J., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Miranda, V., Mohr, J. J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Nadathur, S., Navarro-Alsina, A., Nichol, R. C., Ogando, R. L. C., Omori, Y., Palmese, A., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Paterno, M., Paz-Chinchón, F., Percival, W. J., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Rogozenski, P., Rollins, R. P., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Samuroff, S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Sanchez, J., Cid, D. Sanchez, Scarpine, V., Scolnic, D., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tabbutt, M., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Troja, A., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Vincenzi, M., Walker, A. R., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., and Zuntz, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We constrain extensions to the $\Lambda$CDM model using measurements from the Dark Energy Survey's first three years of observations and external data. The DES data are the two-point correlation functions of weak gravitational lensing, galaxy clustering, and their cross-correlation. We use simulated data and blind analyses of real data to validate the robustness of our results. In many cases, constraining power is limited by the absence of nonlinear predictions that are reliable at our required precision. The models are: dark energy with a time-dependent equation of state, non-zero spatial curvature, sterile neutrinos, modifications of gravitational physics, and a binned $\sigma_8(z)$ model which serves as a probe of structure growth. For the time-varying dark energy equation of state evaluated at the pivot redshift we find $(w_{\rm p}, w_a)= (-0.99^{+0.28}_{-0.17},-0.9\pm 1.2)$ at 68% confidence with $z_{\rm p}=0.24$ from the DES measurements alone, and $(w_{\rm p}, w_a)= (-1.03^{+0.04}_{-0.03},-0.4^{+0.4}_{-0.3})$ with $z_{\rm p}=0.21$ for the combination of all data considered. Curvature constraints of $\Omega_k=0.0009\pm 0.0017$ and effective relativistic species $N_{\rm eff}=3.10^{+0.15}_{-0.16}$ are dominated by external data. For massive sterile neutrinos, we improve the upper bound on the mass $m_{\rm eff}$ by a factor of three compared to previous analyses, giving 95% limits of $(\Delta N_{\rm eff},m_{\rm eff})\leq (0.28, 0.20\, {\rm eV})$. We also constrain changes to the lensing and Poisson equations controlled by functions $\Sigma(k,z) = \Sigma_0 \Omega_{\Lambda}(z)/\Omega_{\Lambda,0}$ and $\mu(k,z)=\mu_0 \Omega_{\Lambda}(z)/\Omega_{\Lambda,0}$ respectively to $\Sigma_0=0.6^{+0.4}_{-0.5}$ from DES alone and $(\Sigma_0,\mu_0)=(0.04\pm 0.05,0.08^{+0.21}_{-0.19})$ for the combination of all data. Overall, we find no significant evidence for physics beyond $\Lambda$CDM., Comment: Updated to match published version and fix a citation reference. 46 pages, 25 figures, data available at https://dev.des.ncsa.illinois.edu/releases/y3a2/Y3key-extensions
Published: 2022
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18. Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck III: Combined cosmological constraints

Author: Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Ansarinejad, B., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Baxter, E. J., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Blazek, J., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chang, C. L., Chen, R., Choi, A., Chown, R., Conselice, C., Cordero, J., Costanzi, M., Crawford, T., Crites, A. T., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N., Davis, C., Davis, T. M., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Everett, W., Fang, X., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Jeltema, T., Kent, S., Knox, L., Kovacs, A., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., Lidman, C., Luong-Van, D., McMahon, J. J., MacCrann, N., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., McCullough, J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Muir, J., Myles, J., Natoli, T., Navarro-Alsina, A., Nichol, R. C., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pereira, M. E. S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Prat, J., Pryke, C., Raveri, M., Reichardt, C. L., Rollins, R. P., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Sanchez, J., Schaffer, K. K., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Vieira, J. D., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., and Zuntz, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present cosmological constraints from the analysis of two-point correlation functions between galaxy positions and galaxy lensing measured in Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 data and measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck. When jointly analyzing the DES-only two-point functions and the DES cross-correlations with SPT+Planck CMB lensing, we find $\Omega_{\rm m} = 0.344\pm 0.030$ and $S_8 \equiv \sigma_8 (\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3)^{0.5} = 0.773\pm 0.016$, assuming $\Lambda$CDM. When additionally combining with measurements of the CMB lensing autospectrum, we find $\Omega_{\rm m} = 0.306^{+0.018}_{-0.021}$ and $S_8 = 0.792\pm 0.012$. The high signal-to-noise of the CMB lensing cross-correlations enables several powerful consistency tests of these results, including comparisons with constraints derived from cross-correlations only, and comparisons designed to test the robustness of the galaxy lensing and clustering measurements from DES. Applying these tests to our measurements, we find no evidence of significant biases in the baseline cosmological constraints from the DES-only analyses or from the joint analyses with CMB lensing cross-correlations. However, the CMB lensing cross-correlations suggest possible problems with the correlation function measurements using alternative lens galaxy samples, in particular the redMaGiC galaxies and high-redshift MagLim galaxies, consistent with the findings of previous studies. We use the CMB lensing cross-correlations to identify directions for further investigating these problems., Comment: 20 pages, 15 figures
Published: 2022
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19. Constraining the Baryonic Feedback with Cosmic Shear Using the DES Year-3 Small-Scale Measurements

Author: Chen, A., Aricò, G., Huterer, D., Angulo, R., Weaverdyck, N., Friedrich, O., Secco, L. F., Hernández-Monteagudo, C., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Blazek, J., Brandao-Souza, A., Bridle, S. L., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, R., Chintalapati, P., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Crocce, M., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Di Valentino, E., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Gatti, M., Gaztanaga, E., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Hoffmann, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Jain, B., Jarvis, M., Jeffrey, N., Kacprzak, T., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Omori, Y., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Refregier, A., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Samuroff, S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troja, A., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Wechsler, R. H., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Aguena, M., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Sanchez, E., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., and To, C.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We use the small scales of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 cosmic shear measurements, which are excluded from the DES Year-3 cosmological analysis, to constrain the baryonic feedback. To model the baryonic feedback, we adopt a baryonic correction model and use the numerical package \texttt{Baccoemu} to accelerate the evaluation of the baryonic nonlinear matter power spectrum. We design our analysis pipeline to focus on the constraints of the baryonic suppression effects, utilizing the implication given by a principal component analysis on the Fisher forecasts. Our constraint on the baryonic effects can then be used to better model and ameliorate the effects of baryons in producing cosmological constraints from the next generation large-scale structure surveys. We detect the baryonic suppression on the cosmic shear measurements with a $\sim 2 \sigma$ significance. The characteristic halo mass for which half of the gas is ejected by baryonic feedback is constrained to be $M_c > 10^{13.2} h^{-1} M_{\odot}$ (95\% C.L.). The best-fit baryonic suppression is $\sim 5\%$ at $k=1.0 {\rm Mpc}\ h^{-1}$ and $\sim 15\%$ at $k=5.0 {\rm Mpc} \ h^{-1}$. Our findings are robust with respect to the assumptions about the cosmological parameters, specifics of the baryonic model, and intrinsic alignments., Comment: 20 pages, 10 figures. DES Collaboration, Year-3 analysis
Published: 2022
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20. Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck II: Cross-correlation measurements and cosmological constraints

Author: Chang, C., Omori, Y., Baxter, E. J., Doux, C., Choi, A., Pandey, S., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bianchini, F., Blazek, J., Bleem, L. E., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Cordero, J., Crawford, T. M., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jarvis, M., Kovacs, A., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Crites, A. T., Pereira, M. E. S., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lima, M., Luong-Van, D., March, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Rodríguez-Monroy, M., Romer, A. K., Ruhl, J. E., Sanchez, E., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Vieira, J. D., Weller, J., and Williamson, R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Cross-correlations of galaxy positions and galaxy shears with maps of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are sensitive to the distribution of large-scale structure in the Universe. Such cross-correlations are also expected to be immune to some of the systematic effects that complicate correlation measurements internal to galaxy surveys. We present measurements and modeling of the cross-correlations between galaxy positions and galaxy lensing measured in the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey with CMB lensing maps derived from a combination of data from the 2500 deg$^2$ SPT-SZ survey conducted with the South Pole Telescope and full-sky data from the Planck satellite. The CMB lensing maps used in this analysis have been constructed in a way that minimizes biases from the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect, making them well suited for cross-correlation studies. The total signal-to-noise of the cross-correlation measurements is 23.9 (25.7) when using a choice of angular scales optimized for a linear (nonlinear) galaxy bias model. We use the cross-correlation measurements to obtain constraints on cosmological parameters. For our fiducial galaxy sample, which consist of four bins of magnitude-selected galaxies, we find constraints of $\Omega_{m} = 0.272^{+0.032}_{-0.052}$ and $S_{8} \equiv \sigma_8 \sqrt{\Omega_{m}/0.3}= 0.736^{+0.032}_{-0.028}$ ($\Omega_{m} = 0.245^{+0.026}_{-0.044}$ and $S_{8} = 0.734^{+0.035}_{-0.028}$) when assuming linear (nonlinear) galaxy bias in our modeling. Considering only the cross-correlation of galaxy shear with CMB lensing, we find $\Omega_{m} = 0.270^{+0.043}_{-0.061}$ and $S_{8} = 0.740^{+0.034}_{-0.029}$. Our constraints on $S_8$ are consistent with recent cosmic shear measurements, but lower than the values preferred by primary CMB measurements from Planck., Comment: 25 pages, 19 figures, submitted to PRD
Published: 2022
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21. Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck I: Construction of CMB Lensing Maps and Modeling Choices

Author: Omori, Y., Baxter, E. J., Chang, C., Friedrich, O., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Blazek, J., Bleem, L. E., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Crawford, T. M., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Crites, A. T., Pereira, M. E. S., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lima, M., Luong-Van, D., March, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Romer, A. K., Ruhl, J. E., Sanchez, E., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Vieira, J. D., Weller, J., and Williamson, R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Joint analyses of cross-correlations between measurements of galaxy positions, galaxy lensing, and lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) offer powerful constraints on the large-scale structure of the Universe. In a forthcoming analysis, we will present cosmological constraints from the analysis of such cross-correlations measured using Year 3 data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), and CMB data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck. Here we present two key ingredients of this analysis: (1) an improved CMB lensing map in the SPT-SZ survey footprint, and (2) the analysis methodology that will be used to extract cosmological information from the cross-correlation measurements. Relative to previous lensing maps made from the same CMB observations, we have implemented techniques to remove contamination from the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect, enabling the extraction of cosmological information from smaller angular scales of the cross-correlation measurements than in previous analyses with DES Year 1 data. We describe our model for the cross-correlations between these maps and DES data, and validate our modeling choices to demonstrate the robustness of our analysis. We then forecast the expected cosmological constraints from the galaxy survey-CMB lensing auto and cross-correlations. We find that the galaxy-CMB lensing and galaxy shear-CMB lensing correlations will on their own provide a constraint on $S_8=\sigma_8 \sqrt{\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3}$ at the few percent level, providing a powerful consistency check for the DES-only constraints. We explore scenarios where external priors on shear calibration are removed, finding that the joint analysis of CMB lensing cross-correlations can provide constraints on the shear calibration amplitude at the 5 to 10% level., Comment: 30 pages, 20 figures, To be submitted to PRD
Published: 2022
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22. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: cosmological constraints from the analysis of cosmic shear in harmonic space

Author: Doux, C., Jain, B., Zeurcher, D., Lee, J., Fang, X., Rosenfeld, R., Amon, A., Camacho, H., Choi, A., Secco, L. F., Blazek, J., Chang, C., Gatti, M., Gaztanaga, E., Jeffrey, N., Raveri, M., Samuroff, S., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Cordero, J., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troja, A., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kim, A. G., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Marshall, J. L., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Morgan, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Reil, K., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., and Weller, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present cosmological constraints from the analysis of angular power spectra of cosmic shear maps based on data from the first three years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3). Our measurements are based on the pseudo-$C_\ell$ method and offer a view complementary to that of the two-point correlation functions in real space, as the two estimators are known to compress and select Gaussian information in different ways, due to scale cuts. They may also be differently affected by systematic effects and theoretical uncertainties, such as baryons and intrinsic alignments (IA), making this analysis an important cross-check. In the context of $\Lambda$CDM, and using the same fiducial model as in the DES Y3 real space analysis, we find ${S_8 \equiv \sigma_8 \sqrt{\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3} = 0.793^{+0.038}_{-0.025}}$, which further improves to ${S_8 = 0.784\pm 0.026 }$ when including shear ratios. This constraint is within expected statistical fluctuations from the real space analysis, and in agreement with DES~Y3 analyses of non-Gaussian statistics, but favors a slightly higher value of $S_8$, which reduces the tension with the Planck cosmic microwave background 2018 results from $2.3\sigma$ in the real space analysis to $1.5\sigma$ in this work. We explore less conservative IA models than the one adopted in our fiducial analysis, finding no clear preference for a more complex model. We also include small scales, using an increased Fourier mode cut-off up to $k_{\rm max}={5}{h{\rm Mpc}^{-1}}$, which allows to constrain baryonic feedback while leaving cosmological constraints essentially unchanged. Finally, we present an approximate reconstruction of the linear matter power spectrum at present time, which is found to be about 20\% lower than predicted by Planck 2018, as reflected by the $1.5\sigma$ lower $S_8$ value.
Published: 2022
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23. Consistent lensing and clustering in a low-$S_8$ Universe with BOSS, DES Year 3, HSC Year 1 and KiDS-1000

Author: Amon, A., Robertson, N. C., Miyatake, H., Heymans, C., White, M., DeRose, J., Yuan, S., Wechsler, R. H., Varga, T. N., Bocquet, S., Dvornik, A., More, S., Ross, A. J., Hoekstra, H., Alarcon, A., Asgari, M., Blazek, J., Campos, A., Chen, R., Choi, A., Crocce, M., Diehl, H. T., Doux, C., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferté, A., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Hildebrandt, H., Huang, S., Huff, E. M., Joachimi, B., Lee, S., MacCrann, N., Myles, J., Alsina, A. Navarro, Nishimichi, T., Prat, J., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Trster, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Wright, A. H., Yin, B., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bilicki, M., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., de Jong, J., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huterer, D., Kannawadi, A., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Muir, J., Paz-Chinchon, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Serrano, S., Shan, H., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., and Zhang, Y.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We evaluate the consistency between lensing and clustering probes of large-scale structure based on measurements of projected galaxy clustering from BOSS combined with overlapping galaxy-galaxy lensing from three surveys: DES Y3, HSC Y1, and KiDS-1000. An intra-lensing-survey study finds good agreement between these lensing data. We model the observations using the Dark Emulator and fit the data at two fixed cosmologies: Planck, with $S_8=0.83$, and a Lensing cosmology with $S_8=0.76$. For a joint analysis limited to scales with $R>5.25h^{-1}$Mpc, we find that both cosmologies provide an acceptable fit to the data. Full utilisation of the small-scale clustering and lensing measurements is hindered by uncertainty in the impact of baryon feedback and assembly bias, which we account for with a reasoned theoretical error budget. We incorporate a systematic scaling parameter for each redshift bin, $A$, that decouples the lensing and clustering to capture any inconsistency. When a wide range of scales ($0.15
Published: 2022
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24. The DES view of the Eridanus supervoid and the CMB Cold Spot

Author: Kovács, A., Jeffrey, N., Gatti, M., Chang, C., Whiteway, L., Hamaus, N., Lahav, O., Pollina, G., Bacon, D., Kacprzak, T., Mawdsley, B., Nadathur, S., Zeurcher, D., García-Bellido, J., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, G. M., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferté, A., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Kuropatkin, N., Jarvis, M., Leget, P. F., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Gaztañaga, E., Gerdes, D., Giannantonio, T., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D., Kuehn, K., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Morgan, R., Ogando, R., Paz-Chinchon, F., Pieres, A., Plazas, A. A., Monroy, M. Rodriguez, Romer, K., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C. -H., and Weller, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Cold Spot is a puzzling large-scale feature in the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature maps and its origin has been subject to active debate. As an important foreground structure at low redshift, the Eridanus supervoid was recently detected, but it was subsequently determined that, assuming the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, only about 10-20$\%$ of the observed temperature depression can be accounted for via its Integrated Sachs-Wolfe imprint. However, $R\gtrsim100~h^{-1}\mathrm{Mpc}$ supervoids elsewhere in the sky have shown ISW imprints $A_{\mathrm{ISW}}\approx5.2\pm1.6$ times stronger than expected from $\Lambda$CDM ($A_{\mathrm{ISW}}=1$), which warrants further inspection. Using the Year-3 redMaGiC catalogue of luminous red galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey, here we confirm the detection of the Eridanus supervoid as a significant under-density in the Cold Spot's direction at $z<0.2$. We also show, with $\mathrm{S/N}\gtrsim5$ significance, that the Eridanus supervoid appears as the most prominent large-scale under-density in the dark matter mass maps that we reconstructed from DES Year-3 gravitational lensing data. While we report no significant anomalies, an interesting aspect is that the amplitude of the lensing signal from the Eridanus supervoid at the Cold Spot centre is about $30\%$ lower than expected from similar peaks found in N-body simulations based on the standard $\Lambda$CDM model with parameters $\Omega_{\rm m} = 0.279$ and $\sigma_8 = 0.82$. Overall, our results confirm the causal relation between these individually rare structures in the cosmic web and in the CMB, motivating more detailed future surveys in the Cold Spot region., Comment: accepted for publication by MNRAS, 14 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2021
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25. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Marginalisation over redshift distribution uncertainties using ranking of discrete realisations

Author: Cordero, Juan P., Harrison, Ian, Rollins, Richard P., Bernstein, G. M., Bridle, S. L., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Choi, A., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Everett, S., Fang, X., Friedrich, O., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Hartley, W. G., Huff, E. M., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Myles, J., Pandey, S., Raveri, M., Rosenfeld, R., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sánchez, J., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Troxel, M., Wechsler, R., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L., Pereira, M. E. da Silva, De Vicente, J., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J., Doel, P., Elvin-Poole, J., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., James, D., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Morgan, R., Muir, J., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchon, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. Plazas, Sánchez, E., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., and Varga, T. N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Cosmological information from weak lensing surveys is maximised by dividing source galaxies into tomographic sub-samples for which the redshift distributions are estimated. Uncertainties on these redshift distributions must be correctly propagated into the cosmological results. We present hyperrank, a new method for marginalising over redshift distribution uncertainties in cosmological analyses, using discrete samples from the space of all possible redshift distributions. This is demonstrated in contrast to previous highly simplified parametric models of the redshift distribution uncertainty. In hyperrank the set of proposed redshift distributions is ranked according to a small (in this work between one and four) number of summary values, which are then sampled along with other nuisance parameters and cosmological parameters in the Monte Carlo chain used for inference. This can be regarded as a general method for marginalising over discrete realisations of data vector variation with nuisance parameters, which can consequently be sampled separately to the main parameters of interest, allowing for increased computational efficiency. We focus on the case of weak lensing cosmic shear analyses and demonstrate our method using simulations made for the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We show the method can correctly and efficiently marginalise over a range of models for the redshift distribution uncertainty. Finally, we compare hyperrank to the common mean-shifting method of marginalising over redshift uncertainty, validating that this simpler model is sufficient for use in the DES Year 3 cosmology results presented in companion papers., Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 17 pages, 12 figures, comments welcome Replacement: Added small comments suggested by referee
Published: 2021
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26. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Galaxy-halo connection from galaxy-galaxy lensing

Author: Zacharegkas, G., Chang, C., Prat, J., Pandey, S., Ferrero, I., Blazek, J., Jain, B., Crocce, M., DeRose, J., Palmese, A., Seitz, S., Sheldon, E., Hartley, W. G., Wechsler, R. H., Dodelson, S., Fosalba, P., Krause, E., Park, Y., Sánchez, C., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Davis, C., Diehl, H. T., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferté, A., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Porredon, A., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Evrard, A. E., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Muir, J., Ogando, R. L. C., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Sanchez, E., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., and Wilkinson, R. D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: Galaxy-galaxy lensing is a powerful probe of the connection between galaxies and their host dark matter halos, which is important both for galaxy evolution and cosmology. We extend the measurement and modeling of the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal in the recent Dark Energy Survey Year 3 cosmology analysis to the highly nonlinear scales ($\sim 100$ kpc). This extension enables us to study the galaxy-halo connection via a Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) framework for the two lens samples used in the cosmology analysis: a luminous red galaxy sample (redMaGiC) and a magnitude-limited galaxy sample (MagLim). We find that redMaGiC (MagLim) galaxies typically live in dark matter halos of mass $\log_{10}(M_{h}/M_{\odot}) \approx 13.7$ which is roughly constant over redshift ($13.3-13.5$ depending on redshift). We constrain these masses to $\sim 15\%$, approximately $1.5$ times improvement over previous work. We also constrain the linear galaxy bias more than 5 times better than what is inferred by the cosmological scales only. We find the satellite fraction for redMaGiC (MagLim) to be $\sim 0.1-0.2$ ($0.1-0.3$) with no clear trend in redshift. Our constraints on these halo properties are broadly consistent with other available estimates from previous work, large-scale constraints and simulations. The framework built in this paper will be used for future HOD studies with other galaxy samples and extensions for cosmological analyses., Comment: 32 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2021
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27. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

Author: DES Collaboration, Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bhargava, S., Birrer, S., Blazek, J., Brandao-Souza, A., Bridle, S. L., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, A., Chen, R., Choi, A., Conselice, C., Cordero, J., Costanzi, M., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. da Silva, Davis, C., Davis, T. M., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Desai, S., Di Valentino, E., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Evrard, A. E., Fang, X., Farahi, A., Fernandez, E., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Jeffrey, N., Jeltema, T., Kovacs, A., Krause, E., Kron, R., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., Lidman, C., Lima, M., Lin, H., MacCrann, N., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., McCullough, J., Melchior, P., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Muir, J., Myles, J., Nadathur, S., Navarro-Alsina, A., Nichol, R. C., Ogando, R. L. C., Omori, Y., Palmese, A., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Paz-Chinchón, F., Petravick, D., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Rollins, R. P., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Samuroff, S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Sanchez, J., Cid, D. Sanchez, Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Scolnic, D., Secco, L. F., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tabbutt, M., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Troja, A., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, D. L., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Walker, A. R., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R., Weller, J., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., and Zuntz, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the first cosmology results from large-scale structure in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) spanning 5000 deg$^2$. We perform an analysis combining three two-point correlation functions (3$\times$2pt): (i) cosmic shear using 100 million source galaxies, (ii) galaxy clustering, and (iii) the cross-correlation of source galaxy shear with lens galaxy positions. The analysis was designed to mitigate confirmation or observer bias; we describe specific changes made to the lens galaxy sample following unblinding of the results. We model the data within the flat $\Lambda$CDM and $w$CDM cosmological models. We find consistent cosmological results between the three two-point correlation functions; their combination yields clustering amplitude $S_8=0.776^{+0.017}_{-0.017}$ and matter density $\Omega_{\mathrm{m}} = 0.339^{+0.032}_{-0.031}$ in $\Lambda$CDM, mean with 68% confidence limits; $S_8=0.775^{+0.026}_{-0.024}$, $\Omega_{\mathrm{m}} = 0.352^{+0.035}_{-0.041}$, and dark energy equation-of-state parameter $w=-0.98^{+0.32}_{-0.20}$ in $w$CDM. This combination of DES data is consistent with the prediction of the model favored by the Planck 2018 cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary anisotropy data, which is quantified with a probability-to-exceed $p=0.13$ to $0.48$. When combining DES 3$\times$2pt data with available baryon acoustic oscillation, redshift-space distortion, and type Ia supernovae data, we find $p=0.34$. Combining all of these data sets with Planck CMB lensing yields joint parameter constraints of $S_8 = 0.812^{+0.008}_{-0.008}$, $\Omega_{\mathrm{m}} = 0.306^{+0.004}_{-0.005}$, $h=0.680^{+0.004}_{-0.003}$, and $\sum m_{\nu}<0.13 \;\mathrm{eV\; (95\% \;CL)}$ in $\Lambda$CDM; $S_8 = 0.812^{+0.008}_{-0.008}$, $\Omega_{\mathrm{m}} = 0.302^{+0.006}_{-0.006}$, $h=0.687^{+0.006}_{-0.007}$, and $w=-1.031^{+0.030}_{-0.027}$ in $w$CDM. (abridged), Comment: See https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/ for the full DES Y3 3x2pt cosmology release. Matches version accepted in PRD
Published: 2021
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28. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: cosmology from combined galaxy clustering and lensing -- validation on cosmological simulations

Author: DeRose, J., Wechsler, R. H., Becker, M. R., Rykoff, E. S., Pandey, S., MacCrann, N., Amon, A., Myles, J., Krause, E., Gruen, D., Jain, B., Troxel, M. A., Prat, J., Alarcon, A., Sánchez, C., Blazek, J., Crocce, M., Giannini, G., Gatti, M., Bernstein, G. M., Zuntz, J., Dodelson, S., Fang, X., Friedrich, O., Secco, L. F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Choi, A., Harrison, I., Cordero, J., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., McCullough, J., Cawthon, R., Chen, A., Alves, O., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Diehl, H. T., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T. F., Fosalba, P., Huang, H., Porredon, A., Raveri, M., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Sanchez, J., Sheldon, E., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bechtol, K., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Chang, C., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Eckert, K., Evrard, A. E., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Giannantonio, T., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N., and Zhang, Y.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a validation of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) $3\times2$-point analysis choices by testing them on Buzzard v2.0, a new suite of cosmological simulations that is tailored for the testing and validation of combined galaxy clustering and weak lensing analyses. We show that the Buzzard v2.0 simulations accurately reproduce many important aspects of the DES Y3 data, including photometric redshift and magnitude distributions, and the relevant set of two-point clustering and weak lensing statistics. We then show that our model for the $3\times2$-point data vector is accurate enough to recover the true cosmology in simulated surveys assuming the true redshift distributions for our source and lens samples, demonstrating robustness to uncertainties in the modeling of the non-linear matter power spectrum, non-linear galaxy bias and higher-order lensing corrections. Additionally, we demonstrate for the first time that our photometric redshift calibration methodology, including information from photometry, spectroscopy, clustering cross-correlations, and galaxy-galaxy lensing ratios, is accurate enough to recover the true cosmology in simulated surveys in the presence of realistic photometric redshift uncertainties., Comment: 29 pages, 10 figures, see this URL for the full DES Y3 cosmology release: https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/
Published: 2021
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29. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Exploiting small-scale information with lensing shear ratios

Author: Sánchez, C., Prat, J., Zacharegkas, G., Pandey, S., Baxter, E., Bernstein, G. M., Blazek, J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Krause, E., Lemos, P., Park, Y., Raveri, M., Sanchez, J., Troxel, M. A., Amon, A., Fang, X., Friedrich, O., Gruen, D., Porredon, A., Secco, L. F., Samuroff, S., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Chen, R., Choi, A., Crocce, M., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Di Valentino, E., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jarvis, M., Jain, B., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Rykoff, E. S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troja, A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Wechsler, R. H., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Evrard, A. E., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Petravick, D., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., and To, C.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Using the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey, we use ratios of small-scale galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements around the same lens sample to constrain source redshift uncertainties, intrinsic alignments and other nuisance parameters of our model. Instead of using a simple geometric approach for the ratios, we use the full modeling of the galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements, including the corresponding integration over the power spectrum and the contributions from intrinsic alignments and lens magnification. We perform extensive testing of the small-scale shear ratio (SR) modeling by studying the impact of different effects such as the inclusion of baryonic physics, non-linear biasing, halo occupation distribution descriptions and lens magnification, among others, and using realistic $N$-body simulations. We validate the robustness of our constraints in the data by using two independent lens samples, and by deriving constraints using the corresponding large-scale ratios for which the modeling is simpler. The DES Y3 results demonstrate how the ratios provide significant improvements in constraining power for several nuisance parameters in our model, especially on source redshift calibration and intrinsic alignments (IA). For source redshifts, SR improves the constraints from the prior by up to 38\% in some redshift bins. Such improvements, and especially the constraints it provides on IA, translate to tighter cosmological constraints when SR is combined with cosmic shear and other 2pt functions. In particular, for the DES Y3 data, SR improves $S_8$ constraints from cosmic shear by up to 31\%, and for the full combination of probes (3$\times$2pt) by up to 10\%. The shear ratios presented in this work are used as an additional likelihood for cosmic shear, 2$\times$2pt and the full 3$\times$2pt in the fiducial DES Y3 cosmological analysis., Comment: 29 pages, 17 figures, accepted by PRD. This version matches the published version
Published: 2021
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30. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: High-precision measurement and modeling of galaxy-galaxy lensing

Author: Prat, J., Blazek, J., Sánchez, C., Tutusaus, I., Pandey, S., Elvin-Poole, J., Krause, E., Troxel, M. A., Secco, L. F., Amon, A., DeRose, J., Zacharegkas, G., Chang, C., Jain, B., MacCrann, N., Park, Y., Sheldon, E., Giannini, G., Bocquet, S., To, C., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Crocce, M., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Everett, S., Fang, X., Farahi, A., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jarvis, M., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Porredon, A., Raveri, M., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, J., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Shin, T., Troja, A., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Evrard, A. E., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Petravick, D., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Sanchez, E., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., and Weller, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present and characterize the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal measured using the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3) covering 4132 deg$^2$. These galaxy-galaxy measurements are used in the DES Y3 3$\times$2pt cosmological analysis, which combines weak lensing and galaxy clustering information. We use two lens samples: a magnitude-limited sample and the redMaGic sample, which span the redshift range $\sim 0.2-1$ with 10.7 M and 2.6 M galaxies respectively. For the source catalog, we use the Metacalibration shape sample, consisting of $\simeq$100 M galaxies separated into 4 tomographic bins. Our galaxy-galaxy lensing estimator is the mean tangential shear, for which we obtain a total S/N of $\sim$148 for MagLim ($\sim$120 for redMaGic), and $\sim$67 ($\sim$55) after applying the scale cuts of 6 Mpc/$h$. Thus we reach percent-level statistical precision, which requires that our modeling and systematic-error control be of comparable accuracy. The tangential shear model used in the 3$\times$2pt cosmological analysis includes lens magnification, a five-parameter intrinsic alignment model (TATT), marginalization over a point-mass to remove information from small scales and a linear galaxy bias model validated with higher-order terms. We explore the impact of these choices on the tangential shear observable and study the significance of effects not included in our model, such as reduced shear, source magnification and source clustering. We also test the robustness of our measurements to various observational and systematics effects, such as the impact of observing conditions, lens-source clustering, random-point subtraction, scale-dependent Metacalibration responses, PSF residuals, and B-modes., Comment: 33 pages, 18 figures, accepted by PRD
Published: 2021
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31. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Galaxy clustering and systematics treatment for lens galaxy samples

Author: Rodríguez-Monroy, M., Weaverdyck, N., Elvin-Poole, J., Crocce, M., Rosell, A. Carnero, Andrade-Oliveira, F., Avila, S., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, G. M., Blazek, J., Camacho, H., Cawthon, R., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Friedrich, O., Gaztanaga, E., Giannini, G., Gruendl, R. A., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., MacCrann, N., Mena-Fernández, J., Muir, J., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, E., Cid, D. Sanchez, Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Tabbutt, M., To, C., Wagoner, E. L., Wechsler, R. H., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Amon, A., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Baxter, E., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Choi, A., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huterer, D., Jain, B., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Roodman, A., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., and Varga, T. N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: In this work we present the galaxy clustering measurements of the two DES lens galaxy samples: a magnitude-limited sample optimized for the measurement of cosmological parameters, MagLim, and a sample of luminous red galaxies selected with the redMaGiC algorithm. MagLim / redMaGiC sample contains over 10 million / 2.5 million galaxies and is divided into six / five photometric redshift bins spanning the range $z\in[0.20,1.05]$ / $z\in[0.15,0.90]$. Both samples cover 4143 deg$^2$ over which we perform our analysis blind, measuring the angular correlation function with a S/N $\sim 63$ for both samples. In a companion paper (DES Collaboration et al. 2021)), these measurements of galaxy clustering are combined with the correlation functions of cosmic shear and galaxy-galaxy lensing of each sample to place cosmological constraints with a 3$\times$2pt analysis. We conduct a thorough study of the mitigation of systematic effects caused by the spatially varying survey properties and we correct the measurements to remove artificial clustering signals. We employ several decontamination methods with different configurations to ensure the robustness of our corrections and to determine the systematic uncertainty that needs to be considered for the final cosmology analyses. We validate our fiducial methodology using log-normal mocks, showing that our decontamination procedure induces biases no greater than $0.5\sigma$ in the $(\Omega_m, b)$ plane, where $b$ is galaxy bias. We demonstrate that failure to remove the artificial clustering would introduce strong biases up to $\sim 7 \sigma$ in $\Omega_m$ and of more than $4 \sigma$ in galaxy bias., Comment: 23 pages, 19 figures, see https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/ for the full DES Y3 cosmology release
Published: 2021
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32. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear and Robustness to Data Calibration

Author: Amon, A., Gruen, D., Troxel, M. A., MacCrann, N., Dodelson, S., Choi, A., Doux, C., Secco, L. F., Samuroff, S., Krause, E., Cordero, J., Myles, J., DeRose, J., Wechsler, R. H., Gatti, M., Navarro-Alsina, A., Bernstein, G. M., Jain, B., Blazek, J., Alarcon, A., Ferté, A., Raveri, M., Lemos, P., Campos, A., Prat, J., Sánchez, C., Jarvis, M., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bridle, S. L., Camacho, H., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, R., Chintalapati, P., Crocce, M., Davis, C., Diehl, H. T., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Giannini, G., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Liddle, A. R., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Refregier, A., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, J., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troja, A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., James, D. J., Kron, R., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Petravick, D., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Romer, A. K., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., and Weller, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: This work, together with its companion paper, Secco and Samuroff et al. (2021), presents the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints based on an analysis of over 100 million source galaxies. With the data spanning 4143 deg$^2$ on the sky, divided into four redshift bins, we produce the highest significance measurement of cosmic shear to date, with a signal-to-noise of 40. We conduct a blind analysis in the context of the $\Lambda$CDM model and find a 3% constraint of the clustering amplitude, $S_8\equiv \sigma_8 (\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3)^{0.5} = 0.759^{+0.025}_{-0.023}$. A $\Lambda$CDM-Optimized analysis, which safely includes smaller scale information, yields a 2% precision measurement of $S_8= 0.772^{+0.018}_{-0.017}$ that is consistent with the fiducial case. The two low-redshift measurements are statistically consistent with the Planck Cosmic Microwave Background result, however, both recovered $S_8$ values are lower than the high-redshift prediction by $2.3\sigma$ and $2.1\sigma$ ($p$-values of 0.02 and 0.05), respectively. The measurements are shown to be internally consistent across redshift bins, angular scales and correlation functions. The analysis is demonstrated to be robust to calibration systematics, with the $S_8$ posterior consistent when varying the choice of redshift calibration sample, the modeling of redshift uncertainty and methodology. Similarly, we find that the corrections included to account for the blending of galaxies shifts our best-fit $S_8$ by $0.5\sigma$ without incurring a substantial increase in uncertainty. We examine the limiting factors for the precision of the cosmological constraints and find observational systematics to be subdominant to the modeling of astrophysics. Specifically, we identify the uncertainties in modeling baryonic effects and intrinsic alignments as the limiting systematics., Comment: 42 pages, 19 figures
Published: 2021
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33. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: curved-sky weak lensing mass map reconstruction

Author: Jeffrey, N., Gatti, M., Chang, C., Whiteway, L., Demirbozan, U., Kovacs, A., Pollina, G., Bacon, D., Hamaus, N., Kacprzak, T., Lahav, O., Lanusse, F., Mawdsley, B., Nadathur, S., Starck, J. L., Vielzeuf, P., Zeurcher, D., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, G. M., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferté, A., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Kuropatkin, N., Jarvis, M., Leget, P. F., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Yin, B. Yanny B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Becker, M. R., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Hoyle, B., Jain, B., James, D. J., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., and Weller, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present reconstructed convergence maps, \textit{mass maps}, from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) third year (Y3) weak gravitational lensing data set. The mass maps are weighted projections of the density field (primarily dark matter) in the foreground of the observed galaxies. We use four reconstruction methods, each is a \textit{maximum a posteriori} estimate with a different model for the prior probability of the map: Kaiser-Squires, null B-mode prior, Gaussian prior, and a sparsity prior. All methods are implemented on the celestial sphere to accommodate the large sky coverage of the DES Y3 data. We compare the methods using realistic $\Lambda$CDM simulations with mock data that are closely matched to the DES Y3 data. We quantify the performance of the methods at the map level and then apply the reconstruction methods to the DES Y3 data, performing tests for systematic error effects. The maps are compared with optical foreground cosmic-web structures and are used to evaluate the lensing signal from cosmic-void profiles. The recovered dark matter map covers the largest sky fraction of any galaxy weak lensing map to date., Comment: Final updates matching published MNRAS version
Published: 2021
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34. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Multi-Probe Modeling Strategy and Validation

Author: Krause, E., Fang, X., Pandey, S., Secco, L. F., Alves, O., Huang, H., Blazek, J., Prat, J., Zuntz, J., Eifler, T. F., MacCrann, N., DeRose, J., Crocce, M., Porredon, A., Jain, B., Troxel, M. A., Dodelson, S., Huterer, D., Liddle, A. R., Leonard, C. D., Amon, A., Chen, A., Elvin-Poole, J., Ferté, A., Muir, J., Park, Y., Samuroff, S., Brandao-Souza, A., Weaverdyck, N., Zacharegkas, G., Rosenfeld, R., Campos, A., Chintalapati, P., Choi, A., Di Valentino, E., Doux, C., Herner, K., Lemos, P., Mena-Fernández, J., Omori, Y., Paterno, M., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Rogozenski, P., Rollins, R. P., Troja, A., Tutusaus, I., Wechsler, R. H., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, G. M., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Everett, S., Evrard, A. E., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., Huff, E. M., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Myles, J., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Petravick, D., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N., and Weller, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: This paper details the modeling pipeline and validates the baseline analysis choices of the DES Year 3 joint analysis of galaxy clustering and weak lensing (a so-called "3$\times$2pt" analysis). These analysis choices include the specific combination of cosmological probes, priors on cosmological and systematics parameters, model parameterizations for systematic effects and related approximations, and angular scales where the model assumptions are validated. We run a large number of simulated likelihood analyses using synthetic data vectors to test the robustness of our baseline analysis. We demonstrate that the DES Year 3 modeling pipeline, including the calibrated scale cuts, is sufficiently accurate relative to the constraining power of the DES Year 3 analyses. Our systematics mitigation strategy accounts for astrophysical systematics, such as galaxy bias, intrinsic alignments, source and lens magnification, baryonic effects, and source clustering, as well as for uncertainties in modeling the matter power spectrum, reduced shear, and estimator effects. We further demonstrate excellent agreement between two independently-developed modeling pipelines, and thus rule out any residual uncertainties due to the numerical implementation., Comment: part of the DES year-3 combined 2-point function analysis; see https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/ for the full DES Y3 cosmology release
Published: 2021

35. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing using the MagLim lens sample

Author: Porredon, A., Crocce, M., Elvin-Poole, J., Cawthon, R., Giannini, G., De Vicente, J., Rosell, A. Carnero, Ferrero, I., Krause, E., Fang, X., Prat, J., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Pandey, S., Pocino, A., Castander, F. J., Choi, A., Amon, A., Tutusaus, I., Dodelson, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Fosalba, P., Gaztanaga, E., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Blazek, J., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Kind, M. Carrasco, Chintalapati, P., Cordero, J., DeRose, J., Di Valentino, E., Doux, C., Eifler, T. F., Everett, S., Ferté, A., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Gruen, D., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jain, B., Jarvis, M., Lee, S., Lemos, P., MacCrann, N., Mena-Fernández, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Park, Y., Raveri, M., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Samuroff, S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Sanchez, J., Cid, D. Sanchez, Scolnic, D., Secco, L. F., Sheldon, E., Troja, A., Troxel, M. A., Weaverdyck, N., Yanny, B., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, T. M., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Evrard, A. E., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lidman, C., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Petravick, D., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Romer, A. K., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N., and Weller, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Two of the most sensitive probes of the large scale structure of the universe are the clustering of galaxies and the tangential shear of background galaxy shapes produced by those foreground galaxies, so-called galaxy-galaxy lensing. Combining the measurements of these two two-point functions leads to cosmological constraints that are independent of the galaxy bias factor. The optimal choice of foreground, or lens, galaxies is governed by the joint, but conflicting requirements to obtain accurate redshift information and large statistics. We present cosmological results from the full 5000 sq. deg. of the Dark Energy Survey first three years of observations (Y3) combining those two-point functions, using for the first time a magnitude-limited lens sample (MagLim) of 11 million galaxies especially selected to optimize such combination, and 100 million background shapes. We consider two cosmological models, flat $\Lambda$CDM and $w$CDM. In $\Lambda$CDM we obtain for the matter density $\Omega_m = 0.320^{+0.041}_{-0.034}$ and for the clustering amplitude $S_8 = 0.778^{+0.037}_{-0.031}$, at 68% C.L. The latter is only 1$\sigma$ smaller than the prediction in this model informed by measurements of the cosmic microwave background by the Planck satellite. In $w$CDM we find $\Omega_m = 0.32^{+0.044}_{-0.046}$, $S_8=0.777^{+0.049}_{-0.051}$, and dark energy equation of state $w=-1.031^{+0.218}_{-0.379}$. We find that including smaller scales while marginalizing over non-linear galaxy bias improves the constraining power in the $\Omega_m-S_8$ plane by $31$% and in the $\Omega_m-w$ plane by $41$% while yielding consistent cosmological parameters from those in the linear bias case. These results are combined with those from cosmic shear in a companion paper to present full DES-Y3 constraints from the three two-point functions (3x2pt)., Comment: 27 pages, 17 figures, matches the version accepted in PRD. See https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/ for the full DES Y3 cosmology release
Published: 2021
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36. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Constraints on cosmological parameters and galaxy bias models from galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing using the redMaGiC sample

Author: Pandey, S., Krause, E., DeRose, J., MacCrann, N., Jain, B., Crocce, M., Blazek, J., Choi, A., Huang, H., To, C., Fang, X., Elvin-Poole, J., Prat, J., Porredon, A., Secco, L. F., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Weaverdyck, N., Park, Y., Raveri, M., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E. S., Bernstein, G. M., Sánchez, C., Jarvis, M., Troxel, M. A., Zacharegkas, G., Chang, C., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Chintalapati, P., Davis, C., Di Valentino, E., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Everett, S., Farahi, A., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Leget, P. -F., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Omori, Y., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troja, A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Wechsler, R. H., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Evrard, A. E., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Petravick, D., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., and Weller, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: We constrain cosmological and galaxy-bias parameters using the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey Year-3 data. We describe our modeling framework, and choice of scales analyzed, validating their robustness to theoretical uncertainties in small-scale clustering by analyzing simulated data. Using a linear galaxy bias model and redMaGiC galaxy sample, we obtain constraints on the matter density to be $\Omega_{\rm m} = 0.325^{+0.033}_{-0.034}$. We also implement a non-linear galaxy bias model to probe smaller scales that includes parameterization based on hybrid perturbation theory and find that it leads to a 17% gain in cosmological constraining power. We perform robustness tests of our methodology pipeline and demonstrate the stability of the constraints to changes in the theoretical model. Using the redMaGiC galaxy sample as foreground lens galaxies, we find the galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements to exhibit significant signals akin to de-correlation between galaxies and mass on large scales, which is not expected in any current models. This likely systematic measurement error biases our constraints on galaxy bias and the $S_8$ parameter. We find that a scale-, redshift- and sky-area-independent phenomenological de-correlation parameter can effectively capture the impact of this systematic error. We trace the source of this de-correlation to a color-dependent photometric issue and minimize its impact on our result by changing the selection criteria of redMaGiC galaxies. Using this new sample, our constraints on the $S_8$ parameter are consistent with previous studies, and we find a small shift in the $\Omega_{\rm m}$ constraints compared to the fiducial redMaGiC sample. We constrain the mean host halo mass of the redMaGiC galaxies in this new sample to be approximately $1.6 \times 10^{13} M_{\odot}/h$., Comment: 34 pages, 23 figures, includes the updated results from a new redmagic sample giving S8 consistent with the cosmic shear results (and also prefers Xlens=1)
Published: 2021
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37. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear and Robustness to Modeling Uncertainty

Author: Secco, L. F., Samuroff, S., Krause, E., Jain, B., Blazek, J., Raveri, M., Campos, A., Amon, A., Chen, A., Doux, C., Choi, A., Gruen, D., Bernstein, G. M., Chang, C., DeRose, J., Myles, J., Ferté, A., Lemos, P., Huterer, D., Prat, J., Troxel, M. A., MacCrann, N., Liddle, A. R., Kacprzak, T., Fang, X., Sánchez, C., Pandey, S., Dodelson, S., Chintalapati, P., Hoffmann, K., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Baxter, E. J., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Brandao-Souza, A., Camacho, H., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Cordero, J. P., Crocce, M., Davis, C., Di Valentino, E., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elidaiana, M., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Jeffrey, N., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Muir, J., Mccullough, J., Alsina, A. Navarro, Omori, Y., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Rollins, R., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, J., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E. S., Shin, T., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Bridle, S. L., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Petravick, D., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Romer, A. K., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Scolnic, D., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., and To, C.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: This work and its companion paper, Amon et al. (2021), present cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints from over 100 million source galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 data. We constrain the lensing amplitude parameter $S_8\equiv\sigma_8\sqrt{\Omega_\textrm{m}/0.3}$ at the 3% level in $\Lambda$CDM: $S_8=0.759^{+0.025}_{-0.023}$ (68% CL). Our constraint is at the 2% level when using angular scale cuts that are optimized for the $\Lambda$CDM analysis: $S_8=0.772^{+0.018}_{-0.017}$ (68% CL). With cosmic shear alone, we find no statistically significant constraint on the dark energy equation-of-state parameter at our present statistical power. We carry out our analysis blind, and compare our measurement with constraints from two other contemporary weak-lensing experiments: the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) and Hyper-Suprime Camera Subaru Strategic Program (HSC). We additionally quantify the agreement between our data and external constraints from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Our DES Y3 result under the assumption of $\Lambda$CDM is found to be in statistical agreement with Planck 2018, although favors a lower $S_8$ than the CMB-inferred value by $2.3\sigma$ (a $p$-value of 0.02). This paper explores the robustness of these cosmic shear results to modeling of intrinsic alignments, the matter power spectrum and baryonic physics. We additionally explore the statistical preference of our data for intrinsic alignment models of different complexity. The fiducial cosmic shear model is tested using synthetic data, and we report no biases greater than 0.3$\sigma$ in the plane of $S_8\times\Omega_\textrm{m}$ caused by uncertainties in the theoretical models., Comment: Minor modifications, results unchanged. Matches version published in PRD. DES Y3 cosmology data products in https://des.ncsa.illinois.edu/releases/y3a2
Published: 2021
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38. Probing gravity with the DES-CMASS sample and BOSS spectroscopy

Author: Lee, S., Huff, E. M., Choi, A., Elvin-Poole, J., Hirata, C., Honscheid, K., MacCrann, N., Ross, A. J., Troxel, M. A., Eifler, T. F., Kong, H., Ferté, A., Blazek, J., Huterer, D., Amara, A., Campos, A., Chen, A., Dodelson, S., Lemos, P., Leonard, C. D., Miranda, V., Muir, J., Raveri, M., Secco, L. F., Weaverdyck, N., Zuntz, J., Bridle, S. L., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Gatti, M., Prat, J., Rau, M. M., Samuroff, S., Sánchez, C., Vielzeuf, P., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Everett, S., Evrard, A. E., Ferrero, I., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Hoyle, B., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N., and Weller, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The DES-CMASS sample (DMASS) is designed to optimally combine the weak lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and redshift-space distortions (RSD) probed by the CMASS galaxy sample from the Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). In this paper, we demonstrate the feasibility of adopting DMASS as the equivalent of BOSS CMASS for a joint analysis of DES and BOSS in the framework of modified gravity. We utilize the angular clustering of the DMASS galaxies, cosmic shear of the DES METACALIBRATION sources, and cross-correlation of the two as data vectors. By jointly fitting the combination of the data with the RSD measurements from the BOSS CMASS sample and Planck data, we obtain the constraints on modified gravity parameters $\mu_0 = -0.37^{+0.47}_{-0.45}$ and $\Sigma_0 = 0.078^{+0.078}_{-0.082}$. We do not detect any significant deviation from General Relativity. Our constraints of modified gravity measured with DMASS are tighter than those with the DES Year 1 redMaGiC galaxy sample with the same external data sets by $29\%$ for $\mu_0$ and $21\%$ for $\Sigma_0$, and comparable to the published results of the DES Year 1 modified gravity analysis despite this work using fewer external data sets. This improvement is mainly because the galaxy bias parameter is shared and more tightly constrained by both CMASS and DMASS, effectively breaking the degeneracy between the galaxy bias and other cosmological parameters. Such an approach to optimally combine photometric and spectroscopic surveys using a photometric sample equivalent to a spectroscopic sample can be applied to combining future surveys having a limited overlap such as DESI and LSST., Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures, Matches version accepted by MNRAS
Published: 2021
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39. Galaxy-galaxy lensing with the DES-CMASS catalogue: measurement and constraints on the galaxy-matter cross-correlation

Author: Lee, S., Troxel, M. A., Choi, A., Elvin-Poole, J., Hirata, C., Honscheid, K., Huff, E. M., MacCrann, N., Ross, A. J., Eifler, T. F., Chang, C., Miquel, R., Omori, Y., Prat, J., Bernstein, G. M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Gatti, M., Rau, M. M., Samuroff, S., Sánchez, C., Vielzeuf, P., Zuntz, J., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Everett, S., Evrard, A. E., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Hoyle, B., Huterer, D., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Menanteau, F., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N., and Weller, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The DMASS sample is a photometric sample from the DES Year 1 data set designed to replicate the properties of the CMASS sample from BOSS, in support of a joint analysis of DES and BOSS beyond the small overlapping area. In this paper, we present the measurement of galaxy-galaxy lensing using the DMASS sample as gravitational lenses in the DES Y1 imaging data. We test a number of potential systematics that can bias the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal, including those from shear estimation, photometric redshifts, and observing conditions. After careful systematic tests, we obtain a highly significant detection of the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal, with total $S/N=25.7$. With the measured signal, we assess the feasibility of using DMASS as gravitational lenses equivalent to CMASS, by estimating the galaxy-matter cross-correlation coefficient $r_{\rm cc}$. By jointly fitting the galaxy-galaxy lensing measurement with the galaxy clustering measurement from CMASS, we obtain $r_{\rm cc}=1.09^{+0.12}_{-0.11}$ for the scale cut of $4~h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$ and $r_{\rm cc}=1.06^{+0.13}_{-0.12}$ for $12~h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$ in fixed cosmology. By adding the angular galaxy clustering of DMASS, we obtain $r_{\rm cc}=1.06\pm 0.10$ for the scale cut of $4~h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$ and $r_{\rm cc}=1.03\pm 0.11$ for $12~h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$. The resulting values of $r_{\rm cc}$ indicate that the lensing signal of DMASS is statistically consistent with the one that would have been measured if CMASS had populated the DES region within the given statistical uncertainty. The measurement of galaxy-galaxy lensing presented in this paper will serve as part of the data vector for the forthcoming cosmology analysis in preparation., Comment: 17 pages, 12 figures, Matches version accepted by MNRAS
Published: 2021
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40. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Measuring the Survey Transfer Function with Balrog

Author: Everett, S., Yanny, B., Kuropatkin, N., Huff, E. M., Zhang, Y., Myles, J., Masegian, A., Elvin-Poole, J., Allam, S., Bernstein, G. M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Splettstoesser, M., Sheldon, E., Jarvis, M., Amon, A., Harrison, I., Choi, A., Hartley, W. G., Alarcon, A., Sánchez, C., Gruen, D., Eckert, K., Prat, J., Tabbutt, M., Busti, V., Becker, M. R., MacCrann, N., Diehl, H. T., Tucker, D. L., Bertin, E., Jeltema, T., Drlica-Wagner, A., Gruendl, R. A., Bechtol, K., Rosell, A. Carnero, Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Desai, S., Eifler, T. F., Evrard, A. E., Ferrero, I., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huterer, D., James, D. J., Kent, S., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Muir, J., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Troxel, M. A., Varga, T. N., Weller, J., and Wilkinson, R. D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: We describe an updated calibration and diagnostic framework, Balrog, used to directly sample the selection and photometric biases of the Dark Energy Survey's (DES) Year 3 (Y3) dataset. We systematically inject onto the single-epoch images of a random 20% subset of the DES footprint an ensemble of nearly 30 million realistic galaxy models derived from DES Deep Field observations. These augmented images are analyzed in parallel with the original data to automatically inherit measurement systematics that are often too difficult to capture with traditional generative models. The resulting object catalog is a Monte Carlo sampling of the DES transfer function and is used as a powerful diagnostic and calibration tool for a variety of DES Y3 science, particularly for the calibration of the photometric redshifts of distant "source" galaxies and magnification biases of nearer "lens" galaxies. The recovered Balrog injections are shown to closely match the photometric property distributions of the Y3 GOLD catalog, particularly in color, and capture the number density fluctuations from observing conditions of the real data within 1% for a typical galaxy sample. We find that Y3 colors are extremely well calibrated, typically within ~1-8 millimagnitudes, but for a small subset of objects we detect significant magnitude biases correlated with large overestimates of the injected object size due to proximity effects and blending. We discuss approaches to extend the current methodology to capture more aspects of the transfer function and reach full coverage of the survey footprint for future analyses., Comment: Version accepted by ApJS. See https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/ for the full DES Y3 cosmology release. 59 pages, 32 figures
Published: 2020
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41. Assessing tension metrics with Dark Energy Survey and Planck data

Author: Lemos, P., Raveri, M., Campos, A., Park, Y., Chang, C., Weaverdyck, N., Huterer, D., Liddle, A. R., Blazek, J., Cawthon, R., Choi, A., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Gatti, M., Gruen, D., Harrison, I., Krause, E., Lahav, O., MacCrann, N., Muir, J., Prat, J., Rau, M. M., Rollins, R. P., Samuroff, S., Zuntz, J., Hartley, W. G., Hoyle, B., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Troxel, M. A., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., Crocce, M., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Evrard, A. E., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huff, E. M., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Myles, J., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Pandey, S., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Secco, L. F., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N., Weller, J., and Wester, W.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Quantifying tensions -- inconsistencies amongst measurements of cosmological parameters by different experiments -- has emerged as a crucial part of modern cosmological data analysis. Statistically-significant tensions between two experiments or cosmological probes may indicate new physics extending beyond the standard cosmological model and need to be promptly identified. We apply several tension estimators proposed in the literature to the Dark Energy Survey (DES) large-scale structure measurement and Planck cosmic microwave background data. We first evaluate the responsiveness of these metrics to an input tension artificially introduced between the two, using synthetic DES data. We then apply the metrics to the comparison of Planck and actual DES Year 1 data. We find that the parameter differences, Eigentension, and Suspiciousness metrics all yield similar results on both simulated and real data, while the Bayes ratio is inconsistent with the rest due to its dependence on the prior volume. Using these metrics, we calculate the tension between DES Year 1 $3\times 2$pt and Planck, finding the surveys to be in $\sim 2.3\sigma$ tension under the $\Lambda$CDM paradigm. This suite of metrics provides a toolset for robustly testing tensions in the DES Year 3 data and beyond., Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures. Accepted in MNRAS. See https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/ for the full DES Y3 cosmology release
Published: 2020
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42. DES Y3 results: Blending shear and redshift biases in image simulations

Author: MacCrann, N., Becker, M. R., McCullough, J., Amon, A., Gruen, D., Jarvis, M., Choi, A., Troxel, M. A., Sheldon, E., Yanny, B., Herner, K., Dodelson, S., Zuntz, J., Eckert, K., Rollins, R. P., Varga, T. N., Bernstein, G. M., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Pieres, A., Bridle, S. L., Myles, J., Alarcon, A., Everett, S., Sánchez, C., Huff, E. M., Tarsitano, F., Gatti, M., Secco, L. F., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., Crocce, M., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Eifler, T. F., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Muir, J., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Roodman, A., Samuroff, S., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., and Wilkinson, R. D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: As the statistical power of galaxy weak lensing reaches percent level precision, large, realistic and robust simulations are required to calibrate observational systematics, especially given the increased importance of object blending as survey depths increase. To capture the coupled effects of blending in both shear and photometric redshift calibration, we define the effective redshift distribution for lensing, $n_{\gamma}(z)$, and describe how to estimate it using image simulations. We use an extensive suite of tailored image simulations to characterize the performance of the shear estimation pipeline applied to the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 dataset. We describe the multi-band, multi-epoch simulations, and demonstrate their high level of realism through comparisons to the real DES data. We isolate the effects that generate shear calibration biases by running variations on our fiducial simulation, and find that blending-related effects are the dominant contribution to the mean multiplicative bias of approximately $-2\%$. By generating simulations with input shear signals that vary with redshift, we calibrate biases in our estimation of the effective redshfit distribution, and demonstrate the importance of this approach when blending is present. We provide corrected effective redshift distributions that incorporate statistical and systematic uncertainties, ready for use in DES Year 3 weak lensing analyses., Comment: Submitted to MNRAS. See https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/ for the full DES Y3 cosmology release. Version accepted by mnras
Published: 2020
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43. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Redshift Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Galaxies

Author: Myles, J., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Sánchez, C., Everett, S., DeRose, J., McCullough, J., Gruen, D., Bernstein, G. M., Troxel, M. A., Dodelson, S., Campos, A., MacCrann, N., Yin, B., Raveri, M., Amara, A., Becker, M. R., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Eckert, K., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gschwend, J., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Huff, E. M., Kuropatkin, N., Lin, H., Masters, D., Miquel, R., Prat, J., Roodman, A., Rykoff, E. S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Wechsler, R. H., Yanny, B., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Bridle, S. L., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Eifler, T. F., Elvin-Poole, J., Evrard, A. E., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Giannantonio, T., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., Huterer, D., James, D. J., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Muir, J., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Samuroff, S., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Secco, L. F., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N., Weller, J., and Wester, W.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Determining the distribution of redshifts of galaxies observed by wide-field photometric experiments like the Dark Energy Survey is an essential component to mapping the matter density field with gravitational lensing. In this work we describe the methods used to assign individual weak lensing source galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Weak Lensing Source Catalogue to four tomographic bins and to estimate the redshift distributions in these bins. As the first application of these methods to data, we validate that the assumptions made apply to the DES Y3 weak lensing source galaxies and develop a full treatment of systematic uncertainties. Our method consists of combining information from three independent likelihood functions: Self-Organizing Map $p(z)$ (SOMPZ), a method for constraining redshifts from galaxy photometry; clustering redshifts (WZ), constraints on redshifts from cross-correlations of galaxy density functions; and shear ratios (SR), which provide constraints on redshifts from the ratios of the galaxy-shear correlation functions at small scales. Finally, we describe how these independent probes are combined to yield an ensemble of redshift distributions encapsulating our full uncertainty. We calibrate redshifts with combined effective uncertainties of $\sigma_{\langle z \rangle}\sim 0.01$ on the mean redshift in each tomographic bin., Comment: See https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/ for the full DES Y3 cosmology release. 30 pages, 18 figures
Published: 2020
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44. A machine learning approach to galaxy properties: joint redshift-stellar mass probability distributions with Random Forest

Author: Mucesh, S., Hartley, W. G., Palmese, A., Lahav, O., Whiteway, L., Bluck, A. F. L., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, G. M., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Choi, A., Eckert, K., Everett, S., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Huff, E. M., Kuropatkin, N., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Yanny, B., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Drlica-Wagner, A., Evrard, A. E., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Morgan, R., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N., and Wilkinson, R. D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Computer Science - Machine Learning
Abstract: We demonstrate that highly accurate joint redshift-stellar mass probability distribution functions (PDFs) can be obtained using the Random Forest (RF) machine learning (ML) algorithm, even with few photometric bands available. As an example, we use the Dark Energy Survey (DES), combined with the COSMOS2015 catalogue for redshifts and stellar masses. We build two ML models: one containing deep photometry in the $griz$ bands, and the second reflecting the photometric scatter present in the main DES survey, with carefully constructed representative training data in each case. We validate our joint PDFs for $10,699$ test galaxies by utilizing the copula probability integral transform and the Kendall distribution function, and their univariate counterparts to validate the marginals. Benchmarked against a basic set-up of the template-fitting code BAGPIPES, our ML-based method outperforms template fitting on all of our predefined performance metrics. In addition to accuracy, the RF is extremely fast, able to compute joint PDFs for a million galaxies in just under $6$ min with consumer computer hardware. Such speed enables PDFs to be derived in real time within analysis codes, solving potential storage issues. As part of this work we have developed GALPRO, a highly intuitive and efficient Python package to rapidly generate multivariate PDFs on-the-fly. GALPRO is documented and available for researchers to use in their cosmology and galaxy evolution studies., Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, Accepted by MNRAS
Published: 2020
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45. Euclid: Forecasts for $k$-cut $3 \times 2$ Point Statistics

Author: Taylor, P. L., Kitching, T., Cardone, V. F., Ferté, A., Huff, E. M., Bernardeau, F., Rhodes, J., Deshpande, A. C., Tutusaus, I., Pourtsidou, A., Camera, S., Carbone, C., Casas, S., Martinelli, M., Pettorino, V., Sakr, Z., Sapone, D., Yankelevich, V., Auricchio, N., Balestra, A., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Boucaud, A., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Capobianco, V., Carretero, J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conversi, L., Corcione, L., Cropper, M., Franceschi, E., Garilli, B., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Jahnke, K., Kermiche, S., Kilbinger, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Massey, R., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Meneghetti, M., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Morin, B., Moscardini, L., Niemi, S., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Raison, F., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Schneider, P., Secrou, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Sureau, F., Crespí, P. Tallada, Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zacchei, A., and Zoubian, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Modelling uncertainties at small scales, i.e. high $k$ in the power spectrum $P(k)$, due to baryonic feedback, nonlinear structure growth and the fact that galaxies are biased tracers poses a significant obstacle to fully leverage the constraining power of the {\it Euclid} wide-field survey. $k$-cut cosmic shear has recently been proposed as a method to optimally remove sensitivity to these scales while preserving usable information. In this paper we generalise the $k$-cut cosmic shear formalism to $3 \times 2$ point statistics and estimate the loss of information for different $k$-cuts in a $3 \times 2$ point analysis of the {\it Euclid} data. Extending the Fisher matrix analysis of~\citet{blanchard2019euclid}, we assess the degradation in constraining power for different $k$-cuts. We work in the idealised case and assume the galaxy bias is linear, the covariance is Gaussian, while neglecting uncertainties due to photo-z errors and baryonic feedback. We find that taking a $k$-cut at $2.6 \ h \ {\rm Mpc} ^{-1}$ yields a dark energy Figure of Merit (FOM) of 1018. This is comparable to taking a weak lensing cut at $\ell = 5000$ and a galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing cut at $\ell = 3000$ in a traditional $3 \times 2$ point analysis. We also find that the fraction of the observed galaxies used in the photometric clustering part of the analysis is one of the main drivers of the FOM. Removing $50 \% \ (90 \%)$ of the clustering galaxies decreases the FOM by $19 \% \ (62 \%)$. Given that the FOM depends so heavily on the fraction of galaxies used in the clustering analysis, extensive efforts should be made to handle the real-world systematics present when extending the analysis beyond the luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample., Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures. Accepted by the Open Journal of Astrophysics
Published: 2020

46. Dark Energy Survey internal consistency tests of the joint cosmological probes analysis with posterior predictive distributions

Author: Doux, C., Baxter, E., Lemos, P., Chang, C., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Campos, A., Choi, A., Gatti, M., Gruen, D., Jarvis, M., MacCrann, N., Park, Y., Prat, J., Rau, M. M., Raveri, M., Samuroff, S., DeRose, J., Hartley, W. G., Hoyle, B., Troxel, M. A., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Cawthon, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jain, B., James, D. J., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lidman, C., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Morgan, R., Muir, J., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Tucker, D. L., Varga, T. N., Weller, J., and Wilkinson, R. D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Beyond-$\Lambda$CDM physics or systematic errors may cause subsets of a cosmological data set to appear inconsistent when analyzed assuming $\Lambda$CDM. We present an application of internal consistency tests to measurements from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) joint probes analysis. Our analysis relies on computing the posterior predictive distribution (PPD) for these data under the assumption of $\Lambda$CDM. We find that the DES Y1 data have an acceptable goodness of fit to $\Lambda$CDM, with a probability of finding a worse fit by random chance of ${p = 0.046}$. Using numerical PPD tests, supplemented by graphical checks, we show that most of the data vector appears completely consistent with expectations, although we observe a small tension between large- and small-scale measurements. A small part (roughly 1.5%) of the data vector shows an unusually large departure from expectations; excluding this part of the data has negligible impact on cosmological constraints, but does significantly improve the $p$-value to 0.10. The methodology developed here will be applied to test the consistency of DES Year 3 joint probes data sets., Comment: v2: Minor modification in calibration methodology; conclusions unchanged. v3: Matches version accepted in MNRAS; generalises calibration of p-values, while leaving qualitative conclusions unchanged. Comments are welcome
Published: 2020
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47. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Weak Lensing Shape Catalogue

Author: Gatti, M., Sheldon, E., Amon, A., Becker, M., Troxel, M., Choi, A., Doux, C., MacCrann, N., Alsina, A. Navarro, Harrison, I., Gruen, D., Bernstein, G., Jarvis, M., Secco, L. F., Ferté, A., Shin, T., McCullough, J., Rollins, R. P., Chen, R., Chang, C., Pandey, S., Tutusaus, I., Prat, J., Elvin-Poole, J., Sanchez, C., Plazas, A. A., Roodman, A., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Davis, T. M., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Krause, E., Kron, R., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Miquel, R., Morgan, R., Myles, J., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Rykoff, E. S., Samuroff, S., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Tucker, D. L., Varga, T. N., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Wester, W., and Wilkinson, R. D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present and characterise the galaxy shape catalogue from the first 3 years of Dark Energy Survey (DES) observations, over an effective area of ~4143 deg$^2$ of the southern sky. We describe our data analysis process and our self-calibrating shear measurement pipeline METACALIBRATION, which builds and improves upon the pipeline used in the DES Year 1 analysis in several aspects. The DES Year 3 weak-lensing shape catalogue consists of 100,204,026 galaxies, measured in the $riz$ bands, resulting in a weighted source number density of $n_{\rm eff} = 5.59$ gal/arcmin$ ^{2}$ and corresponding shape noise $\sigma_e = 0.261$. We perform a battery of internal null tests on the catalogue, including tests on systematics related to the point-spread function (PSF) modelling, spurious catalogue B-mode signals, catalogue contamination, and galaxy properties., Comment: Accepted by MNRAS. See https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/ for the full DES Y3 cosmology release
Published: 2020
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48. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Photometric Data Set for Cosmology

Author: Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Bechtol, K., Kind, M. Carrasco, Rosell, A. Carnero, Becker, M. R., Drlica-Wagner, A., Gruendl, R. A., Rykoff, E. S., Sheldon, E., Yanny, B., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Amon, A., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Choi, A., Diehl, H. T., Everett, S., Flaugher, B., Gaztanaga, E., Gschwend, J., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Hoyle, B., Jarvis, M., Johnson, M. D., Kessler, R., Kron, R., Kuropatkin, N., Leistedt, B., Li, T. S., Menanteau, F., Morganson, E., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Pond, C., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Allyn-Smith, J., Stringer, K. M., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, D. L., de Vicente, J., Wester, W., Zhang, Y., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bhargava, S., Bridle, S. L., Brooks, D., Brout, D., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. E., Davis, T. M., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Eckert, K., Evrard, A. E., Ferrero, I., Fosalba, P., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lidman, C., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Neilsen, E., Plazas, A. A., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., and Wilkinson, R. D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES) photometric data set assembled from the first three years of science operations to support DES Year 3 cosmology analyses, and provide usage notes aimed at the broad astrophysics community. Y3 Gold improves on previous releases from DES, Y1 Gold and Data Release 1 (DES DR1), presenting an expanded and curated data set that incorporates algorithmic developments in image detrending and processing, photometric calibration, and object classification. Y3 Gold comprises nearly 5000 square degrees of grizY imaging in the south Galactic cap, including nearly 390 million objects, with depth reaching S/N ~ 10 for extended objects up to $i_{AB}\sim 23.0$, and top-of-the-atmosphere photometric uniformity $< 3$ mmag. Compared to DR1, photometric residuals with respect to Gaia are reduced by $50\%$, and per-object chromatic corrections are introduced. Y3 Gold augments DES DR1 with simultaneous fits to multi-epoch photometry for more robust galaxy color measurements and corresponding photometric redshift estimates. Y3 Gold features improved morphological star-galaxy classification with efficiency $>98\%$ and purity $>99\%$ for galaxies with $19 < i_{AB} < 22.5$. Additionally, it includes per-object quality information, and accompanying maps of the footprint coverage, masked regions, imaging depth, survey conditions, and astrophysical foregrounds that are used to select the cosmology analysis samples. This paper will be complemented by online resources., Comment: see https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/ for the full DES Y3 cosmology release
Published: 2020
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49. Download by Parachute: Retrieval of Assets from High Altitude Balloons

Author: Sirks, E. L., Clark, P., Massey, R. J., Benton, S. J., Brown, A. M., Damaren, C. J., Eifler, T., Fraisse, A. A., Frenk, C., Funk, M., Galloway, M. N., Gill, A., Hartley, J. W., Holder, B., Huff, E. M., Jauzac, M., Jones, W. C., Lagattuta, D., Leung, J. S. -Y., Li, L., Luu, T. V. T., McCleary, J., Nagy, J. M., Netterfield, C. B., Redmond, S., Rhodes, J. D., Romualdez, L. J., Schmoll, J., Shaaban, M. M., and Tam, S. -I.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a publicly-available toolkit of flight-proven hardware and software to retrieve 5 TB of data or small physical samples from a stratospheric balloon platform. Before launch, a capsule is attached to the balloon, and rises with it. Upon remote command, the capsule is released and descends via parachute, continuously transmitting its location. Software to predict the trajectory can be used to select a safe but accessible landing site. We dropped two such capsules from the SuperBIT telescope, in September 2019. The capsules took ~37 minutes to descend from ~30 km altitude. They drifted 32 km and 19 km horizontally, but landed within 300 m and 600 m of their predicted landing sites. We found them easily, and successfully recovered the data. We welcome interest from other balloon teams for whom the technology would be useful.
Published: 2020
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50. Noise from Undetected Sources in Dark Energy Survey Images

Author: Eckert, K., Bernstein, G. M., Amara, A., Amon, A., Choi, A., Everett, S., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Huff, E. M., Kuropatkin, N., Roodman, A., Sheldon, E., Yanny, B., Zhang, Y., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Avila, S., Bechtol, K., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Eifler, T. F., Evrard, A. E., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kron, R., Kuehn, K., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Romer, A. K., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Varga, T. N., Walker, A. R., Wester, W., Wilkinson, R. D., Zuntz, J., and Collaboration, the DES
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: For ground-based optical imaging with current CCD technology, the Poisson fluctuations in source and sky background photon arrivals dominate the noise budget and are readily estimated. Another component of noise, however, is the signal from the undetected population of stars and galaxies. Using injection of artificial galaxies into images, we demonstrate that the measured variance of galaxy moments (used for weak gravitational lensing measurements) in Dark Energy Survey (DES) images is significantly in excess of the Poisson predictions, by up to 30\%, and that the background sky levels are overestimated by current software. By cross-correlating distinct images of "empty" sky regions, we establish that there is a significant image noise contribution from undetected static sources (US), which on average are mildly resolved at DES resolution. Treating these US as a stationary noise source, we compute a correction to the moment covariance matrix expected from Poisson noise. The corrected covariance matrix matches the moment variances measured on the injected DES images to within 5\%. Thus we have an empirical method to statistically account for US in weak lensing measurements, rather than requiring extremely deep sky simulations. We also find that local sky determinations can remove the bias in flux measurements, at a small penalty in additional, but quantifiable, noise., Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2020
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