Mallaby-Kay, M; Amodeo, S; Hill, JC; Aguena, M; Allam, S; Alves, O; Annis, J; ... Yanny, B; + view all Mallaby-Kay, M; Amodeo, S; Hill, JC; Aguena, M; Allam, S; Alves, O; Annis, J; Battaglia, N; Battistelli, ES; Baxter, EJ; Bechtol, K; Becker, MR; Bertin, E; Bond, JR; Brooks, D; Calabrese, E; Carnero Rosell, A; Carrasco Kind, M; Carretero, J; Choi, A; Crocce, M; Da Costa, LN; Pereira, MES; De Vicente, J; Desai, S; Dietrich, JP; Doel, P; Doux, C; Drlica-Wagner, A; Dunkley, J; Elvin-Poole, J; Everett, S; Ferraro, S; Ferrero, I; Frieman, J; Gallardo, PA; García-Bellido, J; Giannini, G; Gruen, D; Gruendl, RA; Gutierrez, G; Hinton, SR; Hollowood, DL; James, DJ; Kosowsky, A; Kuehn, K; Lokken, M; Louis, T; Marshall, JL; McMahon, J; Mena-Fernández, J; Menanteau, F; Miquel, R; Moodley, K; Mroczkowski, T; Naess, S; Niemack, MD; Ogando, RLC; Page, L; Pandey, S; Pieres, A; Plazas Malagón, AA; Raveri, M; Rodriguez-Monroy, M; Rykoff, ES; Samuroff, S; Sanchez, E; Schaan, E; Sevilla-Noarbe, I; Sheldon, E; Sifón, C; Smith, M; Soares-Santos, M; Sobreira, F; Suchyta, E; Tarle, G; To, C; Vargas, C; Vavagiakis, EM; Weaverdyck, N; Weller, J; Wiseman, P; Yanny, B; - view fewer (2023) Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with ACT, DES, and BOSS: A novel hybrid estimator. Physical Review D , 108 (2) , Article 023516. 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.023516.

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Abstract

The kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ and tSZ) effects probe the abundance and thermodynamics of ionized gas in galaxies and clusters. We present a new hybrid estimator to measure the kSZ effect by combining cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy maps with photometric and spectroscopic optical survey data. The method interpolates a velocity reconstruction from a spectroscopic catalog at the positions of objects in a photometric catalog, which makes it possible to leverage the high number density of the photometric catalog and the precision of the spectroscopic survey. Combining this hybrid kSZ estimator with a measurement of the tSZ effect simultaneously constrains the density and temperature of free electrons in the photometrically selected galaxies. Using the 1000 deg2 of overlap between the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 5, the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 12, we detect the kSZ signal at 4.8σ and reject the null (no-kSZ) hypothesis at 5.1σ. This corresponds to 2.0σ per 100,000 photometric objects with a velocity field based on a spectroscopic survey with 1/5th the density of the photometric catalog. For comparison, a recent ACT analysis using exclusively spectroscopic data from BOSS measured the kSZ signal at 2.1σ per 100,000 objects. Our derived constraints on the thermodynamic properties of the galaxy halos are consistent with previous measurements. With future surveys, such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument and the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time, we expect that this hybrid estimator could result in measurements with significantly better signal-to-noise than those that rely on spectroscopic data alone.

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