FLAMINGO: combining kinetic SZ effect and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements to gauge the impact of feedback on large-scale structure

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Main Authors: McCarthy, Ian G., Amon, Alexandra, Schaye, Joop, Schaan, Emmanuel, Angulo, Raul E., Salcido, Jaime, Schaller, Matthieu, Bigwood, Leah, Elbers, Willem, Kugel, Roi, Helly, John C., Moreno, Victor J. Forouhar, Frenk, Carlos S., McGibbon, Robert J., Ondaro-Mallea, Lurdes, van Daalen, Marcel P.
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author McCarthy, Ian G.
Amon, Alexandra
Schaye, Joop
Schaan, Emmanuel
Angulo, Raul E.
Salcido, Jaime
Schaller, Matthieu
Bigwood, Leah
Elbers, Willem
Kugel, Roi
Helly, John C.
Moreno, Victor J. Forouhar
Frenk, Carlos S.
McGibbon, Robert J.
Ondaro-Mallea, Lurdes
van Daalen, Marcel P.
author_facet McCarthy, Ian G.
Amon, Alexandra
Schaye, Joop
Schaan, Emmanuel
Angulo, Raul E.
Salcido, Jaime
Schaller, Matthieu
Bigwood, Leah
Elbers, Willem
Kugel, Roi
Helly, John C.
Moreno, Victor J. Forouhar
Frenk, Carlos S.
McGibbon, Robert J.
Ondaro-Mallea, Lurdes
van Daalen, Marcel P.
contents Energetic feedback processes associated with accreting supermassive black holes can expel gas from massive haloes and significantly alter various measures of clustering on ~Mpc scales, potentially biasing the values of cosmological parameters inferred from analyses of large-scale structure (LSS) if not modelled accurately. Here we use the state-of-the-art FLAMINGO suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to gauge the impact of feedback on large-scale structure by comparing to Planck + ACT stacking measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect of SDSS BOSS galaxies. We make careful like-with-like comparisons to the observations, aided by high precision KiDS and DES galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements of the BOSS galaxies to inform the selection of the simulated galaxies. In qualitative agreement with several recent studies using dark matter only simulations corrected for baryonic effects, we find that the kSZ effect measurements prefer stronger feedback than predicted by simulations which have been calibrated to reproduce the gas fractions of low redshift X-ray-selected groups and clusters. We find that the increased feedback can help to reduce the so-called S8 tension between the observed and CMB-predicted clustering on small scales as probed by cosmic shear (although at the expense of agreement with the X-ray group measurements). However, the increased feedback is only marginally effective at reducing the reported offsets between the predicted and observed clustering as probed by the thermal SZ (tSZ) effect power spectrum and tSZ effect--weak lensing cross-spectrum, both of which are sensitive to higher halo masses than cosmic shear.
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spellingShingle FLAMINGO: combining kinetic SZ effect and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements to gauge the impact of feedback on large-scale structure
McCarthy, Ian G.
Amon, Alexandra
Schaye, Joop
Schaan, Emmanuel
Angulo, Raul E.
Salcido, Jaime
Schaller, Matthieu
Bigwood, Leah
Elbers, Willem
Kugel, Roi
Helly, John C.
Moreno, Victor J. Forouhar
Frenk, Carlos S.
McGibbon, Robert J.
Ondaro-Mallea, Lurdes
van Daalen, Marcel P.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Energetic feedback processes associated with accreting supermassive black holes can expel gas from massive haloes and significantly alter various measures of clustering on ~Mpc scales, potentially biasing the values of cosmological parameters inferred from analyses of large-scale structure (LSS) if not modelled accurately. Here we use the state-of-the-art FLAMINGO suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to gauge the impact of feedback on large-scale structure by comparing to Planck + ACT stacking measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect of SDSS BOSS galaxies. We make careful like-with-like comparisons to the observations, aided by high precision KiDS and DES galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements of the BOSS galaxies to inform the selection of the simulated galaxies. In qualitative agreement with several recent studies using dark matter only simulations corrected for baryonic effects, we find that the kSZ effect measurements prefer stronger feedback than predicted by simulations which have been calibrated to reproduce the gas fractions of low redshift X-ray-selected groups and clusters. We find that the increased feedback can help to reduce the so-called S8 tension between the observed and CMB-predicted clustering on small scales as probed by cosmic shear (although at the expense of agreement with the X-ray group measurements). However, the increased feedback is only marginally effective at reducing the reported offsets between the predicted and observed clustering as probed by the thermal SZ (tSZ) effect power spectrum and tSZ effect--weak lensing cross-spectrum, both of which are sensitive to higher halo masses than cosmic shear.
title FLAMINGO: combining kinetic SZ effect and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements to gauge the impact of feedback on large-scale structure
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19905