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author Gong, Yulin
Gallardo, Patricio A.
Bean, Rachel
Moore, Jenna
Vavagiakis, Eve M.
Battaglia, Nicholas
Hadzhiyska, Boryana
Hsu, Yun-Hsin
Aguilar, Jessica Nicole
Ahlen, Steven
Bianchi, Davide
Brooks, David
Claybaugh, Todd
Canning, Rebecca
Devlin, Mark
Doel, Peter
de la Macorra, Axel
Ferraro, Simone
Font-Ribera, Andreu
Forero-Romero, Jaime E.
Gaztañaga, Enrique
Gutierrez, Gaston
Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A
Guy, Julien
Honscheid, Klaus
Howlett, Cullan
Liu, R. Henry
Ishak, Mustapha
Joyce, Dick
Kremin, Anthony
Lamman, Claire
Levi, Michael
Landriau, Martin
Manera, Marc
Meisner, Aaron
Miquel, Ramon
Niemack, Michael D.
Nadathur, Seshadri
Percival, Will
Prada, Francisco
Rossi, Graziano
Guachalla, Bernardita Ried
Sanchez, Eusebio
Seo, Hee-Jong
Sprayberry, David
Schlegel, David
Sifón, Cristóbal
Schubnell, Michael
Silber, Joseph Harry
Tarlé, Gregory
Weaver, Benjamin Alan
Zhou, Rongpu
Zou, Hu
author_facet Gong, Yulin
Gallardo, Patricio A.
Bean, Rachel
Moore, Jenna
Vavagiakis, Eve M.
Battaglia, Nicholas
Hadzhiyska, Boryana
Hsu, Yun-Hsin
Aguilar, Jessica Nicole
Ahlen, Steven
Bianchi, Davide
Brooks, David
Claybaugh, Todd
Canning, Rebecca
Devlin, Mark
Doel, Peter
de la Macorra, Axel
Ferraro, Simone
Font-Ribera, Andreu
Forero-Romero, Jaime E.
Gaztañaga, Enrique
Gutierrez, Gaston
Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A
Guy, Julien
Honscheid, Klaus
Howlett, Cullan
Liu, R. Henry
Ishak, Mustapha
Joyce, Dick
Kremin, Anthony
Lamman, Claire
Levi, Michael
Landriau, Martin
Manera, Marc
Meisner, Aaron
Miquel, Ramon
Niemack, Michael D.
Nadathur, Seshadri
Percival, Will
Prada, Francisco
Rossi, Graziano
Guachalla, Bernardita Ried
Sanchez, Eusebio
Seo, Hee-Jong
Sprayberry, David
Schlegel, David
Sifón, Cristóbal
Schubnell, Michael
Silber, Joseph Harry
Tarlé, Gregory
Weaver, Benjamin Alan
Zhou, Rongpu
Zou, Hu
contents We present a 9.3-sigma detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect by combining a sample of 913,286 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 1 (DESI DR1) catalog and co-added Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT DR6) and Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps. This represents the highest-significance pairwise kSZ measurement to date. The analysis uses three ACT CMB temperature maps: co-added 150 GHz, total frequency maps, and a component-separated Internal Linear Combination (ILC) map, all of which cover 19,000 square degrees of the sky from Advanced ACTPol observations conducted between 2017 and 2022. Comparison of the results of these three maps serves as a consistency check for potential foreground contamination that may depend on the observation frequency. An estimate of the best-fit mass-averaged optical depth is obtained by comparing the pairwise kSZ curve with the linear-theory prediction of the pairwise velocity under the best-fit Planck cosmology, and is compared with predictions from simulations. This estimate serves as a reference point for future comparisons with thermal SZ-derived optical depth measurements for the same DESI cluster samples, which will be presented in a companion paper. Finally, we employ a machine-learning approach trained on simulations to estimate the optical depth for 456,803 DESI LRG-identified clusters within the simulated mass range (greater than about 1e13 solar masses). These are combined with the measured kSZ signal to infer the individual cluster peculiar velocities, providing the opportunity to constrain the behavior of gravity and the dark sector over a range of cosmic scales and epochs.
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spellingShingle Detection of the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and Pairwise Velocity with DESI DR1 Galaxies and ACT DR6 and Planck CMB Data
Gong, Yulin
Gallardo, Patricio A.
Bean, Rachel
Moore, Jenna
Vavagiakis, Eve M.
Battaglia, Nicholas
Hadzhiyska, Boryana
Hsu, Yun-Hsin
Aguilar, Jessica Nicole
Ahlen, Steven
Bianchi, Davide
Brooks, David
Claybaugh, Todd
Canning, Rebecca
Devlin, Mark
Doel, Peter
de la Macorra, Axel
Ferraro, Simone
Font-Ribera, Andreu
Forero-Romero, Jaime E.
Gaztañaga, Enrique
Gutierrez, Gaston
Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A
Guy, Julien
Honscheid, Klaus
Howlett, Cullan
Liu, R. Henry
Ishak, Mustapha
Joyce, Dick
Kremin, Anthony
Lamman, Claire
Levi, Michael
Landriau, Martin
Manera, Marc
Meisner, Aaron
Miquel, Ramon
Niemack, Michael D.
Nadathur, Seshadri
Percival, Will
Prada, Francisco
Rossi, Graziano
Guachalla, Bernardita Ried
Sanchez, Eusebio
Seo, Hee-Jong
Sprayberry, David
Schlegel, David
Sifón, Cristóbal
Schubnell, Michael
Silber, Joseph Harry
Tarlé, Gregory
Weaver, Benjamin Alan
Zhou, Rongpu
Zou, Hu
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We present a 9.3-sigma detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect by combining a sample of 913,286 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 1 (DESI DR1) catalog and co-added Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT DR6) and Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps. This represents the highest-significance pairwise kSZ measurement to date. The analysis uses three ACT CMB temperature maps: co-added 150 GHz, total frequency maps, and a component-separated Internal Linear Combination (ILC) map, all of which cover 19,000 square degrees of the sky from Advanced ACTPol observations conducted between 2017 and 2022. Comparison of the results of these three maps serves as a consistency check for potential foreground contamination that may depend on the observation frequency. An estimate of the best-fit mass-averaged optical depth is obtained by comparing the pairwise kSZ curve with the linear-theory prediction of the pairwise velocity under the best-fit Planck cosmology, and is compared with predictions from simulations. This estimate serves as a reference point for future comparisons with thermal SZ-derived optical depth measurements for the same DESI cluster samples, which will be presented in a companion paper. Finally, we employ a machine-learning approach trained on simulations to estimate the optical depth for 456,803 DESI LRG-identified clusters within the simulated mass range (greater than about 1e13 solar masses). These are combined with the measured kSZ signal to infer the individual cluster peculiar velocities, providing the opportunity to constrain the behavior of gravity and the dark sector over a range of cosmic scales and epochs.
title Detection of the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and Pairwise Velocity with DESI DR1 Galaxies and ACT DR6 and Planck CMB Data
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23417