Probing early structure and model-independent neutrino mass with high-redshift CMB lensing mass maps

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Hauptverfasser: Qu, Frank J., Sherwin, Blake D., Darwish, Omar, Namikawa, Toshiya, Madhavacheril, Mathew S.
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author Qu, Frank J.
Sherwin, Blake D.
Darwish, Omar
Namikawa, Toshiya
Madhavacheril, Mathew S.
author_facet Qu, Frank J.
Sherwin, Blake D.
Darwish, Omar
Namikawa, Toshiya
Madhavacheril, Mathew S.
contents CMB lensing maps probe the mass distribution in projection out to high redshifts, but significant sensitivity to low-redshift structure remains. In this paper we discuss a method to remove the low-redshift contributions from CMB lensing mass maps by subtracting suitably scaled galaxy density maps, nulling the low redshift structure with a model-insensitive procedure that is similar to delensing. This results in a high-$z$-only mass map that can provide a probe of structure growth at uniquely high redshifts: if systematics can be controlled, we forecast that CMB-S4 lensing combined with a Rubin-LSST-like galaxy survey can probe the amplitude of structure at redshifts $z>3.75$ ($z>5$) to within $2.3\%$ ($3.3\%$). We then discuss other example applications of such high-$z$ CMB lensing maps. In standard analyses of CMB lensing, assuming the wrong dark energy model (or wrong model parametrization) can lead to biases in neutrino mass constraints. In contrast, we show with forecasts that a high-$z$ mass map constructed from CMB-S4 lensing and LSST galaxies can provide a nearly model-independent neutrino mass constraint, with only negligible sensitivity to the presence of non-standard dark energy models, irrespective of their parametrization.
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spellingShingle Probing early structure and model-independent neutrino mass with high-redshift CMB lensing mass maps
Qu, Frank J.
Sherwin, Blake D.
Darwish, Omar
Namikawa, Toshiya
Madhavacheril, Mathew S.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
CMB lensing maps probe the mass distribution in projection out to high redshifts, but significant sensitivity to low-redshift structure remains. In this paper we discuss a method to remove the low-redshift contributions from CMB lensing mass maps by subtracting suitably scaled galaxy density maps, nulling the low redshift structure with a model-insensitive procedure that is similar to delensing. This results in a high-$z$-only mass map that can provide a probe of structure growth at uniquely high redshifts: if systematics can be controlled, we forecast that CMB-S4 lensing combined with a Rubin-LSST-like galaxy survey can probe the amplitude of structure at redshifts $z>3.75$ ($z>5$) to within $2.3\%$ ($3.3\%$). We then discuss other example applications of such high-$z$ CMB lensing maps. In standard analyses of CMB lensing, assuming the wrong dark energy model (or wrong model parametrization) can lead to biases in neutrino mass constraints. In contrast, we show with forecasts that a high-$z$ mass map constructed from CMB-S4 lensing and LSST galaxies can provide a nearly model-independent neutrino mass constraint, with only negligible sensitivity to the presence of non-standard dark energy models, irrespective of their parametrization.
title Probing early structure and model-independent neutrino mass with high-redshift CMB lensing mass maps
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04253