Methods for cluster cosmology and application to the SDSS in preparation for DES Year 1 release

Journal Article · Wed Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1949· OSTI ID:1557009

Costanzi, M. ^[1]; Rozo, E. ^[2]; Simet, M. ^[3]; Zhang, Y.  ^[4]; Evrard, A. E.  ^[5]; Mantz, A.  ^[6]; Rykoff, E. S. ^[7]; Jeltema, T. ^[8]; Gruen, D.  ^[7]; Allen, S. ^[9]; McClintock, T.  ^[2]; Romer, A. K. ^[10]; von der Linden, A. ^[11]; Farahi, A.  ^[12]; DeRose, J. ^[13]; Varga, T. N. ^[14]; Weller, J. ^[15]; Giles, P. ^[10]; Hollowood, D. L. ^[8]; Bhargava, S. ^[10] ; Bermeo-Hernandez, A. ^[10]; Chen, X. ^[16]; Abbott, T. M. C. ^[17]; Abdalla, F. B. ^[18]; Avila, S. ^[19]; Bechtol, K. ^[20]; Brooks, D. ^[21]; Buckley-Geer, E. ^[4]; Burke, D. L. ^[7]; Rosell, A. Carnero ^[22]; Kind, M. Carrasco ^[23]; Carretero, J. ^[24]; Crocce, M. ^[25]; Cunha, C. E. ^[6]; da Costa, L. N. ^[22]; Davis, C. ^[6]; De Vicente, J. ^[26]; Diehl, H. T. ^[4]; Dietrich, J. P. ^[27]; Doel, P. ^[21]; Eifler, T. F. ^[28]; Estrada, J. ^[4]; Flaugher, B. ^[4]; Fosalba, P. ^[25]; Frieman, J. ^[29]; García-Bellido, J. ^[30]; Gaztanaga, E. ^[25]; Gerdes, D. W. ^[5]; Giannantonio, T. ^[31]; Gruendl, R. A. ^[23]; Gschwend, J. ^[22]; Gutierrez, G. ^[4]; Hartley, W. G. ^[32]; Honscheid, K. ^[33]; Hoyle, B. ^[14]; James, D. J. ^[34]; Krause, E. ^[35]; Kuehn, K. ^[36]; Kuropatkin, N. ^[4]; Lima, M. ^[37]; Lin, H. ^[4]; Maia, M. A. G. ^[22]; March, M. ^[38]; Marshall, J. L. ^[39]; Martini, P. ^[40]; Menanteau, F. ^[23]; Miller, C. J. ^[5]; Miquel, R. ^[41]; Mohr, J. J. ^[42]; Ogando, R. L. C. ^[22]; Plazas, A. A. ^[43]; Roodman, A. ^[7]; Sanchez, E. ^[26]; Scarpine, V. ^[4]; Schindler, R. ^[44]; Schubnell, M. ^[16]; Serrano, S. ^[25]; Sevilla-Noarbe, I. ^[26]; Sheldon, E. ^[45]; Smith, M. ^[46]; Soares-Santos, M. ^[47]; Sobreira, F. ^[48]; Suchyta, E. ^[49]; Swanson, M. E. C. ^[50]; Tarle, G. ^[16]; Thomas, D. ^[19]; Wechsler, R. H. ^[51]

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1. INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Via G. B Tiepolo 11, I-34143 Trieste, Italy, IFPU-Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe, Via Beirut 2, 34014 Trieste, Italy
2. Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Riverside, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
4. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
5. Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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8. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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10. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pevensey Building, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
11. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
12. Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15312, USA
13. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, PO Box 2450, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, Department of Physics, Stanford University, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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15. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany, Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany, Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr 1, D-81679 München, Germany
16. Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
17. Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile
18. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK, Department of Physics and Electronics, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
19. Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
20. LSST, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
21. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
22. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia – LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20921-400, Brazil, Observatório Nacional, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20921-400, Brazil
23. Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
24. Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
25. Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), E-08193 Barcelona, Spain, Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
26. Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), 28040 Madrid, Spain
27. Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany, Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr 1, D-81679 München, Germany
28. Department of Astronomy/Steward Observatory, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721-0065, USA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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In this work, we implement the first blind analysis of cluster abundance data to derive cosmological constraints from the abundance and weak lensing signal of redMaPPer clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We simultaneously fit for cosmological parameters and the richness–mass relation of the clusters. For a flat Λ cold dark matter cosmological model with massive neutrinos, we find $$S_8 \equiv \sigma _{8}(\Omega _\mathrm{ m}/0.3)^{0.5}=0.79^{+0.05}_{-0.04}$$. This value is both consistent and competitive with that derived from cluster catalogues selected in different wavelengths. Our result is also consistent with the combined probes analyses by the Dark Energy Survey (DES), the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS), and with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies as measured by Planck. We demonstrate that the cosmological posteriors are robust against variation of the richness–mass relation model and to systematics associated with the calibration of the selection function. In combination with baryon acoustic oscillation data and big bang nucleosynthesis data (Cooke et al.), we constrain the Hubble rate to be h = 0.66 ± 0.02, independent of the CMB. Future work aimed at improving our understanding of the scatter of the richness–mass relation has the potential to significantly improve the precision of our cosmological posteriors. The methods described in this work were developed for use in the forthcoming analysis of cluster abundances in the DES. Lastly, our SDSS analysis constitutes the first part of a staged-unblinding analysis of the full DES data set.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
• Contributing Organization: DES Collaboration
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515; SC0015975; AC02-05CH11231; 716762; AC02-07CH11359; AC05-00OR22725; SC0019193
• OSTI ID: 1557009
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1487402; OSTI ID: 1560421; OSTI ID: 1697764
• Report Number(s): arXiv:1810.09456; FERMILAB-PUB-18-554-AE
• Journal Information: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 488 Journal Issue: 4; ISSN 0035-8711
• Publisher: Royal Astronomical Society
• Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• Language: English

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