Tracing Missing Baryons in the Cosmic Filaments with tSZ and CMB-Lensing Stacking
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| author | Li, Jianzhuo Zheng, Yi Zhu, Weishan |
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| contents | We investigate the distribution of missing baryons in the cosmic filaments by stacking $\sim 30,700$ filaments across the northern and southern SDSS sky regions using Planck Compton-$y$ and CMB lensing maps. Filaments are identified using the DisPerSE algorithm applied to the SDSS LOWZ-CMASS galaxy samples, selecting structures with lengths between 30-100 cMpc and redshifts in the range $0.2 < z < 0.6$. Radial profiles are extracted out to 25 cMpc from the filament spines, and galaxy clusters with halo masses above $\sim 3 \times 10^{13} M_\odot$ are masked to reduce contamination. We detect the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) signal at $7.82σ$ and the CMB lensing signal at $7.78σ$. The stacked profiles are corrected by a geometric bias correction based on filament inclination with respect to the line-of-sight, and they are portrayed assuming isothermal, cylindrically symmetric models. We explore different gas and matter density distributions, focusing on the $β$-models with $(α,β) = (2,2/3)$ or $(1,1)$. By jointly fitting the Compton-$y$ and $κ$ profiles, we constrain the central electron overdensity and temperature to be $δ= 4.18^{+2.01}_{-1.06}$ and $T_e = 2.74^{+0.65}_{-0.53}\times 10^6 \mathrm{K}$ for the standard $β$-model. These results suggest that filamentary WHIM in our selected long filaments contributes a significant baryon fraction of $0.127^{+0.019}_{-0.021}\times Ω_b$ to the cosmic baryon budget. |
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| spellingShingle | Tracing Missing Baryons in the Cosmic Filaments with tSZ and CMB-Lensing Stacking Li, Jianzhuo Zheng, Yi Zhu, Weishan Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics We investigate the distribution of missing baryons in the cosmic filaments by stacking $\sim 30,700$ filaments across the northern and southern SDSS sky regions using Planck Compton-$y$ and CMB lensing maps. Filaments are identified using the DisPerSE algorithm applied to the SDSS LOWZ-CMASS galaxy samples, selecting structures with lengths between 30-100 cMpc and redshifts in the range $0.2 < z < 0.6$. Radial profiles are extracted out to 25 cMpc from the filament spines, and galaxy clusters with halo masses above $\sim 3 \times 10^{13} M_\odot$ are masked to reduce contamination. We detect the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) signal at $7.82σ$ and the CMB lensing signal at $7.78σ$. The stacked profiles are corrected by a geometric bias correction based on filament inclination with respect to the line-of-sight, and they are portrayed assuming isothermal, cylindrically symmetric models. We explore different gas and matter density distributions, focusing on the $β$-models with $(α,β) = (2,2/3)$ or $(1,1)$. By jointly fitting the Compton-$y$ and $κ$ profiles, we constrain the central electron overdensity and temperature to be $δ= 4.18^{+2.01}_{-1.06}$ and $T_e = 2.74^{+0.65}_{-0.53}\times 10^6 \mathrm{K}$ for the standard $β$-model. These results suggest that filamentary WHIM in our selected long filaments contributes a significant baryon fraction of $0.127^{+0.019}_{-0.021}\times Ω_b$ to the cosmic baryon budget. |
| title | Tracing Missing Baryons in the Cosmic Filaments with tSZ and CMB-Lensing Stacking |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08561 |