The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Reionization kSZ trispectrum methodology and limits
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| author | MacCrann, Niall Qu, Frank J. Namikawa, Toshiya Bolliet, Boris Cai, Hongbo Calabrese, Erminia Choi, Steve K. Darwish, Omar Ferraro, Simone Guan, Yilun Hill, J. Colin Hilton, Matt Hložek, Renée Kramer, Darby Madhavacheril, Mathew S. Moodley, Kavilan Sehgal, Neelima Sherwin, Blake D. Sifón, Cristóbal Staggs, Suzanne T. Trac, Hy Van Engelen, Alexander Vavagiakis, Eve M. |
| author_facet | MacCrann, Niall Qu, Frank J. Namikawa, Toshiya Bolliet, Boris Cai, Hongbo Calabrese, Erminia Choi, Steve K. Darwish, Omar Ferraro, Simone Guan, Yilun Hill, J. Colin Hilton, Matt Hložek, Renée Kramer, Darby Madhavacheril, Mathew S. Moodley, Kavilan Sehgal, Neelima Sherwin, Blake D. Sifón, Cristóbal Staggs, Suzanne T. Trac, Hy Van Engelen, Alexander Vavagiakis, Eve M. |
| contents | Patchy reionization generates kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Large-scale velocity perturbations along the line of sight modulate the small-scale kSZ power spectrum, leading to a trispectrum (or four-point function) in the CMB that depends on the physics of reionization. We investigate the challenges in detecting this trispectrum and use tools developed for CMB lensing, such as realization-dependent bias subtraction and cross-correlation based estimators, to counter uncertainties in the instrumental noise and assumed CMB power spectrum. We also find that both lensing and extragalactic foregrounds can impart larger trispectrum contributions than the reionization kSZ signal. We present a range of mitigation methods for both of these sources of contamination, validated on microwave-sky simulations. We use ACT DR6 and Planck data to calculate an upper limit on the reionization kSZ trispectrum from a measurement dominated by foregrounds. The upper limit is about 50 times the signal predicted from recent simulations. |
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| spellingShingle | The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Reionization kSZ trispectrum methodology and limits MacCrann, Niall Qu, Frank J. Namikawa, Toshiya Bolliet, Boris Cai, Hongbo Calabrese, Erminia Choi, Steve K. Darwish, Omar Ferraro, Simone Guan, Yilun Hill, J. Colin Hilton, Matt Hložek, Renée Kramer, Darby Madhavacheril, Mathew S. Moodley, Kavilan Sehgal, Neelima Sherwin, Blake D. Sifón, Cristóbal Staggs, Suzanne T. Trac, Hy Van Engelen, Alexander Vavagiakis, Eve M. Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Patchy reionization generates kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Large-scale velocity perturbations along the line of sight modulate the small-scale kSZ power spectrum, leading to a trispectrum (or four-point function) in the CMB that depends on the physics of reionization. We investigate the challenges in detecting this trispectrum and use tools developed for CMB lensing, such as realization-dependent bias subtraction and cross-correlation based estimators, to counter uncertainties in the instrumental noise and assumed CMB power spectrum. We also find that both lensing and extragalactic foregrounds can impart larger trispectrum contributions than the reionization kSZ signal. We present a range of mitigation methods for both of these sources of contamination, validated on microwave-sky simulations. We use ACT DR6 and Planck data to calculate an upper limit on the reionization kSZ trispectrum from a measurement dominated by foregrounds. The upper limit is about 50 times the signal predicted from recent simulations. |
| title | The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Reionization kSZ trispectrum methodology and limits |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01188 |