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Joint analysis of Dark Energy Survey Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck. II. Cross-correlation measurements and cosmological constraints

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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  deg2 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 Ωm=0.272+0.032−0.052 and 𝑆8≡𝜎8⁢√Ωm/0.3=0.736+0.032−0.028 (Ωm=0.245+0.026−0.044 and 𝑆8=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 Ωm=0.270+0.043−0.061 and 𝑆8=0.740+0.034−0.029. Our constraints on 𝑆8 are consistent with recent cosmic shear measurements, but lower than the values preferred by primary CMB measurements from Planck.

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C. C. and Y. O. are supported by DOE grant No. DE-SC0021949. The South Pole Telescope program is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the grant No. OPP-1852617. Partial support is also provided by the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. Argonne National Laboratory’s work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under contract No. DE-AC02- 06CH11357. Work at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a DOE-OS, HEP User Facility managed by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, was supported under Contract No. DE-AC02- 07CH11359. The Melbourne authors acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects scheme (No. DP200101068). The McGill authors acknowledge funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced research, and the Fonds de recherche du Québec Nature et technologies. The CU Boulder group acknowledges support from NSF Grant No. AST-0956135. The Munich group acknowledges the support by the ORIGINS Cluster (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC-2094–390783311), the MaxPlanck-Gesellschaft Faculty Fellowship Program, and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. J. V. acknowledges support from the Sloan Foundation. Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University, the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. The Collaborating Institutions are Argonne National Laboratory, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Cambridge, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas-Madrid, the University of Chicago, University College London, the DES-Brazil Consortium, the University of Edinburgh, the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (IEEC/CSIC), the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and the associated Excellence Cluster Universe, the University of Michigan, NFS’s NOIRLab, the University of Nottingham, The Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Portsmouth, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, the University of Sussex, Texas A&M University, and the OzDES Membership Consortium. Based in part on observations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory at NSF’s NOIRLab (NOIRLab Prop. ID 2012B-0001; PI: J. Frieman), which is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. AST-1138766 and No. AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MICINN under grants No. ESP2017-89838, No. PGC2018-094773, No. PGC2018-102021, No. SEV-2016-0588, No. SEV-2016-0597, and No. MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. I. F. A. E. is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (No. FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements No. 240672, No. 291329, and No. 306478. We acknowledge support from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) do e-Universo (CNPq grant No. 465376/2014-2). This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics.

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Cross-correlation measurements and cosmological constraints

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Funding

United States Department of Energy
DE-SC0021949
National Science Foundation
OPP-1852617
National Science Foundation
AST-0956135
National Science Foundation
AST-1138766
National Science Foundation
AST-1536171
University of Chicago
Argonne National Laboratory
Office of Science
Office of High Energy Physics
DE-AC02-06CH11357
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
DE-AC02-07CH11359
Australian Research Council
DP210102386
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Research England
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago
Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Ohio State University
Texas A&M University
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
465376/2014-2
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
University of California System
Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
University of Edinburgh
ETH Zurich
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Institut de Física d'Altes Energies
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ohio State University
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Portsmouth
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Stanford University
University of Sussex
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
ESP2017-89838
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
PGC2018-094773
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
PGC2018-102021
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
SEV-2016-0588
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
SEV-2016-0597
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
MDM-2015-0509
Generalitat de Catalunya
European Research Council
240672
European Research Council
291329
European Research Council
306478
European Commission
FP7/2007-2013
National Institute of Science and Technology of Drugs and Medicines
Germany's Excellence Strategy
EXC-2094–390783311
Ministry of Science and Education of Spain
NOIRLab
2012B-0001
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy

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