Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol.


Journal

Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141

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Date de publication:
01 Nov 2019
Historique:
received: 30 07 2019
entrez: 26 11 2019
pubmed: 26 11 2019
medline: 26 11 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We report the first detection of gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters using only the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The lensing signal is obtained using a new estimator that extracts the lensing dipole signature from stacked images formed by rotating the cluster-centered Stokes QU map cutouts along the direction of the locally measured background CMB polarization gradient. Using data from the SPTpol 500  deg^{2} survey at the locations of roughly 18 000 clusters with richness λ≥10 from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 full galaxy cluster catalog, we detect lensing at 4.8σ. The mean stacked mass of the selected sample is found to be (1.43±0.40)×10^{14}M_{⊙} which is in good agreement with optical weak lensing based estimates using DES data and CMB-lensing based estimates using SPTpol temperature data. This measurement is a key first step for cluster cosmology with future low-noise CMB surveys, like CMB-S4, for which CMB polarization will be the primary channel for cluster lensing measurements.

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pubmed: 31763885
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.181301
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Journal Article

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eng

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181301

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S Raghunathan (S)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia.

S Patil (S)

School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia.

E Baxter (E)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.

B A Benson (BA)

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MS209, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.

L E Bleem (LE)

Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.

T M Crawford (TM)

Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.

G P Holder (GP)

Astronomy Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1110 W. Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, CIFAR Program in Gravity and the Extreme Universe, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada.

T McClintock (T)

Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.

C L Reichardt (CL)

School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia.

T N Varga (TN)

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, Garching 85748, Germany.
Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, LudwigMaximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, München 81679, Germany.

N Whitehorn (N)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.

P A R Ade (PAR)

Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3XQ, United Kingdom.

S Allam (S)

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P. O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.

A J Anderson (AJ)

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MS209, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.

J E Austermann (JE)

NIST Quantum Devices Group, 325 Broadway Mailcode 817.03, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA.

S Avila (S)

Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.

J S Avva (JS)

Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

D Bacon (D)

Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Dennis Sciama Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, United Kingdom.

J A Beall (JA)

NIST Quantum Devices Group, 325 Broadway Mailcode 817.03, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA.

A N Bender (AN)

Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.

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School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia.

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Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, Munich 81679, Germany.

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Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.

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Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, P. O. Box 2450, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.

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Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
Department of Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.

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Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, Bellaterra (Barcelona) 08193, Spain.

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Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Barcelona 08034, Spain.
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Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, München 81679, Germany.

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Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
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Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia-LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20921-400, Brazil.
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Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana 502285, India.

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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P. O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.

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Excellence Cluster Origins, Boltzmannstr. 2, Garching 85748, Germany.
Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, Munich 81679, Germany.

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Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, CIFAR Program in Gravity and the Extreme Universe, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada.
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Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, Garching 85748, Germany.
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