The Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR6 and DESI: Structure growth measurements from the cross-correlation of DESI Legacy Imaging galaxies and CMB lensing from ACT DR6 and Planck PR4

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Main Authors: Qu, Frank J., Hang, Qianjun, Farren, Gerrit, Bolliet, Boris, Aguilar, Jessica Nicole, Ahlen, Steven, Alam, Shadab, Brooks, David, Cai, Yan-Chuan, Calabrese, Erminia, Claybaugh, Todd, de la Macorra, Axel, Devlin, Mark J., Doel, Peter, Embil-Villagra, Carmen, Ferraro, Simone, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Forero-Romero, Jaime E., Gaztañaga, Enrique, Gluscevic, Vera, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Gutierrez, Gaston, Howlett, Cullan, Kehoe, Robert, Kim, Joshua, Kremin, Anthony, Lambert, Andrew, Landriau, Martin, Guillou, Laurent Le, Levi, Michael, Louis, Thibaut, Meisner, Aaron, Miquel, Ramon, Moustakas, John, Newman, Jeffrey A., Niz, Gustavo, Peacock, John, Percival, Will, Poppett, Claire, Prada, Francisco, Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Rossi, Graziano, Sanchez, Eusebio, Schlegel, David, Sehgal, Neelima, Shaikh, Shabbir, Sherwin, Blake, Sifón, Cristóbal, Schubnell, Michael, Sprayberry, David, Tarlé, Gregory, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Wollack, Edward J., Zou, Hu
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author Qu, Frank J.
Hang, Qianjun
Farren, Gerrit
Bolliet, Boris
Aguilar, Jessica Nicole
Ahlen, Steven
Alam, Shadab
Brooks, David
Cai, Yan-Chuan
Calabrese, Erminia
Claybaugh, Todd
de la Macorra, Axel
Devlin, Mark J.
Doel, Peter
Embil-Villagra, Carmen
Ferraro, Simone
Font-Ribera, Andreu
Forero-Romero, Jaime E.
Gaztañaga, Enrique
Gluscevic, Vera
Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A
Gutierrez, Gaston
Howlett, Cullan
Kehoe, Robert
Kim, Joshua
Kremin, Anthony
Lambert, Andrew
Landriau, Martin
Guillou, Laurent Le
Levi, Michael
Louis, Thibaut
Meisner, Aaron
Miquel, Ramon
Moustakas, John
Newman, Jeffrey A.
Niz, Gustavo
Peacock, John
Percival, Will
Poppett, Claire
Prada, Francisco
Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi
Rossi, Graziano
Sanchez, Eusebio
Schlegel, David
Sehgal, Neelima
Shaikh, Shabbir
Sherwin, Blake
Sifón, Cristóbal
Schubnell, Michael
Sprayberry, David
Tarlé, Gregory
Weaver, Benjamin Alan
Wollack, Edward J.
Zou, Hu
author_facet Qu, Frank J.
Hang, Qianjun
Farren, Gerrit
Bolliet, Boris
Aguilar, Jessica Nicole
Ahlen, Steven
Alam, Shadab
Brooks, David
Cai, Yan-Chuan
Calabrese, Erminia
Claybaugh, Todd
de la Macorra, Axel
Devlin, Mark J.
Doel, Peter
Embil-Villagra, Carmen
Ferraro, Simone
Font-Ribera, Andreu
Forero-Romero, Jaime E.
Gaztañaga, Enrique
Gluscevic, Vera
Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A
Gutierrez, Gaston
Howlett, Cullan
Kehoe, Robert
Kim, Joshua
Kremin, Anthony
Lambert, Andrew
Landriau, Martin
Guillou, Laurent Le
Levi, Michael
Louis, Thibaut
Meisner, Aaron
Miquel, Ramon
Moustakas, John
Newman, Jeffrey A.
Niz, Gustavo
Peacock, John
Percival, Will
Poppett, Claire
Prada, Francisco
Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi
Rossi, Graziano
Sanchez, Eusebio
Schlegel, David
Sehgal, Neelima
Shaikh, Shabbir
Sherwin, Blake
Sifón, Cristóbal
Schubnell, Michael
Sprayberry, David
Tarlé, Gregory
Weaver, Benjamin Alan
Wollack, Edward J.
Zou, Hu
contents We measure the growth of cosmic density fluctuations on large scales and across the redshift range $0.3<z<0.8$ through the cross-correlation of the ACT DR6 CMB lensing map and galaxies from the DESI Legacy Survey, using three galaxy samples spanning the redshifts of $0.3 \lesssim z \lesssim 0.45$, $0.45 \lesssim z \lesssim0.6$, $0.6 \lesssim z \lesssim 0.8$. We adopt a scale cut where non-linear effects are negligible, so that the cosmological constraints are derived from the linear regime. We determine the amplitude of matter fluctuations over all three redshift bins using ACT data alone to be $S_8\equivσ_8(Ω_m/0.3)^{0.5}=0.772\pm0.040$ in a joint analysis combining the three redshift bins and ACT lensing alone. Using a combination of ACT and \textit{Planck} data we obtain $S_8=0.765\pm0.032$. The lowest redshift bin used is the least constraining and exhibits a $\sim2σ$ tension with the other redshift bins; thus we also report constraints excluding the first redshift bin, giving $S_8=0.785\pm0.033$ for the combination of ACT and \textit{Planck}. This result is in excellent agreement at the $0.3σ$ level with measurements from galaxy lensing, but is $1.8σ$ lower than predictions based on \textit{Planck} primary CMB data. Understanding whether this hint of discrepancy in the growth of structure at low redshifts arises from a fluctuation, from systematics in data, or from new physics, is a high priority for forthcoming CMB lensing and galaxy cross-correlation analyses.
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spellingShingle The Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR6 and DESI: Structure growth measurements from the cross-correlation of DESI Legacy Imaging galaxies and CMB lensing from ACT DR6 and Planck PR4
Qu, Frank J.
Hang, Qianjun
Farren, Gerrit
Bolliet, Boris
Aguilar, Jessica Nicole
Ahlen, Steven
Alam, Shadab
Brooks, David
Cai, Yan-Chuan
Calabrese, Erminia
Claybaugh, Todd
de la Macorra, Axel
Devlin, Mark J.
Doel, Peter
Embil-Villagra, Carmen
Ferraro, Simone
Font-Ribera, Andreu
Forero-Romero, Jaime E.
Gaztañaga, Enrique
Gluscevic, Vera
Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A
Gutierrez, Gaston
Howlett, Cullan
Kehoe, Robert
Kim, Joshua
Kremin, Anthony
Lambert, Andrew
Landriau, Martin
Guillou, Laurent Le
Levi, Michael
Louis, Thibaut
Meisner, Aaron
Miquel, Ramon
Moustakas, John
Newman, Jeffrey A.
Niz, Gustavo
Peacock, John
Percival, Will
Poppett, Claire
Prada, Francisco
Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi
Rossi, Graziano
Sanchez, Eusebio
Schlegel, David
Sehgal, Neelima
Shaikh, Shabbir
Sherwin, Blake
Sifón, Cristóbal
Schubnell, Michael
Sprayberry, David
Tarlé, Gregory
Weaver, Benjamin Alan
Wollack, Edward J.
Zou, Hu
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We measure the growth of cosmic density fluctuations on large scales and across the redshift range $0.3<z<0.8$ through the cross-correlation of the ACT DR6 CMB lensing map and galaxies from the DESI Legacy Survey, using three galaxy samples spanning the redshifts of $0.3 \lesssim z \lesssim 0.45$, $0.45 \lesssim z \lesssim0.6$, $0.6 \lesssim z \lesssim 0.8$. We adopt a scale cut where non-linear effects are negligible, so that the cosmological constraints are derived from the linear regime. We determine the amplitude of matter fluctuations over all three redshift bins using ACT data alone to be $S_8\equivσ_8(Ω_m/0.3)^{0.5}=0.772\pm0.040$ in a joint analysis combining the three redshift bins and ACT lensing alone. Using a combination of ACT and \textit{Planck} data we obtain $S_8=0.765\pm0.032$. The lowest redshift bin used is the least constraining and exhibits a $\sim2σ$ tension with the other redshift bins; thus we also report constraints excluding the first redshift bin, giving $S_8=0.785\pm0.033$ for the combination of ACT and \textit{Planck}. This result is in excellent agreement at the $0.3σ$ level with measurements from galaxy lensing, but is $1.8σ$ lower than predictions based on \textit{Planck} primary CMB data. Understanding whether this hint of discrepancy in the growth of structure at low redshifts arises from a fluctuation, from systematics in data, or from new physics, is a high priority for forthcoming CMB lensing and galaxy cross-correlation analyses.
title The Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR6 and DESI: Structure growth measurements from the cross-correlation of DESI Legacy Imaging galaxies and CMB lensing from ACT DR6 and Planck PR4
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10808