Cross-correlation of Dark Energy Survey Year 3 lensing data with ACT and P l a n c k thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect observations. II. Modeling and constraints on halo pressure profiles

S. Pandey , M. Gatti , E. Baxter , J. C. Hill , X. Fang , C. Doux , G. Giannini , M. Raveri , J. Derose , H. Huang , E. Moser , N. Battaglia , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , M. Becker , A. Campos , C. Chang , R. Chen , A. Choi , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferte , I. Harrison , N. Maccrann , J. Mccullough , J. Myles , A. Navarro Alsina , J. Prat , R. P. Rollins , C. Sanchez , T. Shin , M. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , B. Yin , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin (1) , B. Bolliet , J. R. Bond , D. Brooks , E. Calabrese , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Cawthon , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. de Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , J. Dunkley , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , S. Ferraro , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Herner , A. D. Hincks , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , J. P. Hughes , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. Lokken , M. S. Madhavacheril , M. A. G. Maia , J. J. Mcmahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , K. Moodley , R. Morgan , F. Nati , M. D. Niemack , L. Page , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , E. Schaan , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , B. D. Sherwin , C. Sifón , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , D. Spergel , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , J. Weller , E. J. Wollack , Z. Xu

1 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

Hot, ionized gas leaves an imprint on the cosmic microwave background via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect. The cross-correlation of gravitational lensing (which traces the projected mass) with the tSZ effect (which traces the projected gas pressure) is a powerful probe of the thermal state of ionized baryons throughout the Universe and is sensitive to effects such as baryonic feedback. In a companion paper (Gatti et al. Phys. Rev. D 105, 123525 (2022)), we present tomographic measurements and validation tests of the cross-correlation between Galaxy shear measurements from the first three years of observations of the Dark Energy Survey and tSZ measurements from a combination of Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Planck observations. In this work, we use the same measurements to constrain models for the pressure profiles of halos across a wide range of halo mass and redshift. We find evidence for reduced pressure in low-mass halos, consistent with predictions for the effects of feedback from active Galactic nuclei. We infer the hydrostatic mass bias (B ≡M_{500 c}/M_SZ) from our measurements, finding B =1.8 ±0.1 when adopting the Planck-preferred cosmological parameters. We additionally find that our measurements are consistent with a nonzero redshift evolution of B , with the correct sign and sufficient magnitude to explain the mass bias necessary to reconcile cluster count measurements with the Planck-preferred cosmology. Our analysis introduces a model for the impact of intrinsic alignments (IAs) of galaxy shapes on the shear-tSZ correlation. We show that IA can have a significant impact on these correlations at current noise levels.

Keywords: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics; Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

S. Pandey, M. Gatti, E. Baxter, J. C. Hill, X. Fang, et al.. Cross-correlation of Dark Energy Survey Year 3 lensing data with ACT and P l a n c k thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect observations. II. Modeling and constraints on halo pressure profiles. Physical Review D, 2022, 105, ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.105.123526⟩. ⟨insu-03748256⟩