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

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

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.043503

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

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

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

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Article number	043503
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	104
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.043503
State	Published - Aug 15 2021

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Vavagiakis, E. M., Gallardo, P. A., Calafut, V., Amodeo, S., Aiola, S., Austermann, J. E., Battaglia, N., Battistelli, E. S., Beall, J. A., Bean, R., Bond, J. R., Calabrese, E., Choi, S. K., Cothard, N. F., Devlin, M. J., Duell, C. J., Duff, S. M., Duivenvoorden, A. J., Dunkley, J., ... Xu, Z. (2021). The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the baryon content of SDSS DR15 galaxies with the thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effects. Physical Review D, 104(4), [043503]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.043503

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note = "Funding Information: E. M. V. acknowledges support from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DGE-1650441. M. D. N. acknowledges support from NSF CAREER Grant No. 1454881. V. C. and R. B. acknowledge support from DOE Grant No. DE-SC0011838, NASA ATP Grant No. 80NSSC18K0695, NASA ROSES Grant No. 12-EUCLID12-0004, and funding related to the Roman High Latitude Survey Science Investigation Team. N. B. acknowledges support from NSF Grant No. AST-1910021, NASA ATP Grant No. 80NSSC18K0695, and from the Research and Technology Development fund at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory through the project titled “Mapping the Baryonic Majority.” E. C. acknowledges support from the STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship No. ST/M004856/2 and STFC Consolidated Grant No. ST/S00033X/1, and from the European Research Council under the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant Agreement No. 849169). S. K. C. acknowledges support from NSF Grant No. AST-2001866. J. D. is supported through NSF Grant No. AST-1814971. R. D. thanks CONICYT for Grant No. BASAL CATA AFB-170002. R. H. acknowledges funding from the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. J. P. H. acknowledges funding for SZ cluster studies from NSF Grant No. AST-1615657. K. M. acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. C. S. acknowledges support from the Agencia Nacional de Investigaci{\'o}n y Desarrollo through FONDECYT Iniciaci{\'o}n Grant No. 11191125. Z. X. is supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. This work was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through Grants No. AST-0408698, No. AST-0965625, and No. AST-1440226 for the ACT project, as well as Grants No. PHY-0355328, No. PHY-0855887, and No. PHY-1214379. Funding was also provided by Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant to U. B. C. ACT operates in the Parque Astron{\'o}mico Atacama in northern Chile under the auspices of the Comisi{\'o}n Nacional de Investigaci{\'o}n Cient{\'i}fica y Tecnol{\'o}gica de Chile. Canadian co-authors acknowledge support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The Dunlap Institute is funded through an endowment established by the David Dunlap family and the University of Toronto. Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah. SDSS-IV is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS Collaboration including the Brazilian Participation Group, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Astrophysics—Harvard and Smithsonian, the Chilean Participation Group, the French Participation Group, Instituto de Astrof{\'i}sica de Canarias, The Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe/University of Tokyo, the Korean Participation Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Leibniz Institut f{\"u}r Astrophysik Potsdam, Max-Planck-Institut f{\"u}r Astronomie Heidelberg, Max-Planck-Institut f{\"u}r Astrophysik Garching, Max-Planck-Institut f{\"u}r Extraterrestrische Physik, National Astronomical Observatories of China, New Mexico State University, New York University, University of Notre Dame, Observat{\'a}rio Nacional/MCTI, The Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, United Kingdom Participation Group, Universidad Nacional Aut{\'o}noma de M{\'e}xico, University of Arizona, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Oxford, University of Portsmouth, University of Utah, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University. 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Vavagiakis, EM, Gallardo, PA, Calafut, V, Amodeo, S, Aiola, S, Austermann, JE, Battaglia, N, Battistelli, ES, Beall, JA, Bean, R, Bond, JR, Calabrese, E, Choi, SK, Cothard, NF, Devlin, MJ, Duell, CJ, Duff, SM, Duivenvoorden, AJ, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Guan, Y, Hill, JC, Hilton, GC, Hilton, M, Hložek, R, Huber, ZB, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, KM, Hughes, JP, Koopman, BJ, Kosowsky, A, Li, Y, Lokken, M, Madhavacheril, M, McMahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, LB, Niemack, MD, Page, LA, Partridge, B, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sifón, C, Spergel, DN, Staggs, ST, Ullom, JN, Vale, LR, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Wollack, EJ & Xu, Z 2021, 'The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the baryon content of SDSS DR15 galaxies with the thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effects', Physical Review D, vol. 104, no. 4, 043503. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.043503

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AU - Gallardo, P. A.

AU - Calafut, V.

AU - Amodeo, S.

AU - Aiola, S.

AU - Austermann, J. E.

AU - Battaglia, N.

AU - Battistelli, E. S.

AU - Beall, J. A.

AU - Bean, R.

AU - Bond, J. R.

AU - Calabrese, E.

AU - Choi, S. K.

AU - Cothard, N. F.

AU - Devlin, M. J.

AU - Duell, C. J.

AU - Duff, S. M.

AU - Duivenvoorden, A. J.

AU - Dunkley, J.

AU - Dunner, R.

AU - Ferraro, S.

AU - Guan, Y.

AU - Hill, J. C.

AU - Hilton, G. C.

AU - Hilton, M.

AU - Hložek, R.

AU - Huber, Z. B.

AU - Hubmayr, J.

AU - Huffenberger, K. M.

AU - Hughes, J. P.

AU - Koopman, B. J.

AU - Kosowsky, A.

AU - Li, Y.

AU - Lokken, M.

AU - Madhavacheril, M.

AU - McMahon, J.

AU - Moodley, K.

AU - Naess, S.

AU - Nati, F.

AU - Newburgh, L. B.

AU - Niemack, M. D.

AU - Page, L. A.

AU - Partridge, B.

AU - Schaan, E.

AU - Schillaci, A.

AU - Sifón, C.

AU - Spergel, D. N.

AU - Staggs, S. T.

AU - Ullom, J. N.

AU - Vale, L. R.

AU - Van Engelen, A.

AU - Van Lanen, J.

AU - Wollack, E. J.

AU - Xu, Z.

N1 - Funding Information: E. M. V. acknowledges support from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DGE-1650441. M. D. N. acknowledges support from NSF CAREER Grant No. 1454881. V. C. and R. B. acknowledge support from DOE Grant No. DE-SC0011838, NASA ATP Grant No. 80NSSC18K0695, NASA ROSES Grant No. 12-EUCLID12-0004, and funding related to the Roman High Latitude Survey Science Investigation Team. N. B. acknowledges support from NSF Grant No. AST-1910021, NASA ATP Grant No. 80NSSC18K0695, and from the Research and Technology Development fund at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory through the project titled “Mapping the Baryonic Majority.” E. C. acknowledges support from the STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship No. ST/M004856/2 and STFC Consolidated Grant No. ST/S00033X/1, and from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant Agreement No. 849169). S. K. C. acknowledges support from NSF Grant No. AST-2001866. J. D. is supported through NSF Grant No. AST-1814971. R. D. thanks CONICYT for Grant No. BASAL CATA AFB-170002. R. H. acknowledges funding from the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. J. P. H. acknowledges funding for SZ cluster studies from NSF Grant No. AST-1615657. K. M. acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. C. S. acknowledges support from the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo through FONDECYT Iniciación Grant No. 11191125. Z. X. is supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. This work was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through Grants No. AST-0408698, No. AST-0965625, and No. AST-1440226 for the ACT project, as well as Grants No. PHY-0355328, No. PHY-0855887, and No. PHY-1214379. Funding was also provided by Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant to U. B. C. ACT operates in the Parque Astronómico Atacama in northern Chile under the auspices of the Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica de Chile. Canadian co-authors acknowledge support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The Dunlap Institute is funded through an endowment established by the David Dunlap family and the University of Toronto. Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah. SDSS-IV is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS Collaboration including the Brazilian Participation Group, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Astrophysics—Harvard and Smithsonian, the Chilean Participation Group, the French Participation Group, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, The Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe/University of Tokyo, the Korean Participation Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie Heidelberg, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik Garching, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, National Astronomical Observatories of China, New Mexico State University, New York University, University of Notre Dame, Observatário Nacional/MCTI, The Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, United Kingdom Participation Group, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Arizona, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Oxford, University of Portsmouth, University of Utah, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University. Funding Information: National Science Foundation U.S. Department of Energy National Aeronautics and Space Administration Research and Technology Development fund Jet Propulsion Laboratory Science and Technology Facilities Council Science and Technology Facilities Council H2020 European Research Council Horizon 2020 Framework Programme Comisi?n Nacional de Investigaci?n Cient?fica y Tecnol?gica Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Alfred P. Sloan Foundation National Research Foundation Agencia Nacional de Investigaci?n y Desarrollo Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cient?fico y Tecnol?gico Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Princeton University University of Pennsylvania Canada Foundation for Innovation Parque Astron?mico Atacama Comisi?n Nacional de Investigaci?n Cient?fica y Tecnol?gica Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto University of Toronto Office of Science Center for High Performance Computing University of Utah Brazilian Participation Group Carnegie Institution for Science Carnegie Mellon University Center for Astrophysics?Harvard and Smithsonian Chilean Participation Group French Participation Group Instituto de Astrof?sica de Canarias Johns Hopkins University Kavli Institute for the Physics University of Tokyo Korean Participation Group Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Leibniz Institut f?r Astrophysik Potsdam Max-Planck-Institut f?r Physik Komplexer Systeme National Astronomical Observatories of China New Mexico State University New York University University of Notre Dame Minist?rio da Ci?ncia, Tecnologia e Inova??o Ohio State University Pennsylvania State University Shanghai Astronomical Observatory United Kingdom Participation Group Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico University of Arizona University of Colorado Boulder University of Oxford University of Portsmouth University of Utah University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin-Madison Vanderbilt University Yale University Publisher Copyright: © 2021 American Physical Society

PY - 2021/8/15

Y1 - 2021/8/15

N2 - We present measurements of the average thermal Sunyaev Zel’dovich (tSZ) effect from optically selected galaxy groups and clusters at high signal-to-noise (up to ) and estimate their baryon content within a radius aperture. Sources from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR15 catalog overlap with 3,700 sq deg of sky observed by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 2008 to 2018 at 150 and 98 GHz (ACT DR5), and 2,089 sq deg of internal linear combination component-separated maps combining ACT and Planck data (ACT DR4). The corresponding optical depths , which depend on the baryon content of the halos, are estimated using results from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations assuming an active galactic nuclei feedback radiative cooling model. We estimate the mean mass of the halos in multiple luminosity bins, and compare the tSZ-based estimates to theoretical predictions of the baryon content for a Navarro-Frenk-White profile. We do the same for estimates extracted from fits to pairwise baryon momentum measurements of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect (kSZ) for the same dataset obtained in a companion paper. We find that the estimates from the tSZ measurements in this work and the kSZ measurements in the companion paper agree within for two out of the three disjoint luminosity bins studied, while they differ by in the highest luminosity bin. The optical depth estimates account for one-third to all of the theoretically predicted baryon content in the halos across luminosity bins. Potential systematic uncertainties are discussed. The tSZ and kSZ measurements provide a step toward empirical Compton- relationships to provide new tests of cluster formation and evolution models.

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

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