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Title: Cosmological lensing ratios with DES Y1, SPT, and Planck

Journal Article · · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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  1. Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
  3. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
  4. Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain
  5. 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
  6. Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
  7. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
  8. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, PO Box 2450, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
  9. Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, 28040, Spain
  10. Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15312, USA
  11. 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
  12. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany, Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany
  13. Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, PO Box 2450, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
  14. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK, Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 16, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
  15. Department of Physics and McGill Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, CIFAR Program in Gravity and the Extreme Universe, Toronto, ON M5G 1Z8, Canada, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1110 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
  16. Department of Astronomy/Steward Observatory, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721-0065, USA
  17. Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
  18. Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 16, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
  19. Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15312, USA, Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany
  20. School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
  21. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Building 510, Upton, NY 11973, USA
  22. Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
  23. Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile
  24. 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
  25. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
  26. Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
  27. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
  28. CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, F-75014 Paris, France, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, F-75014 Paris, France
  29. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
  30. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
  31. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, PO Box 2450, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
  32. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA, Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
  33. 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
  34. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
  35. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
  36. Department of Physics and McGill Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada
  37. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
  38. 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
  39. Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana 502285, India
  40. Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany, Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany
  41. Department of Physics and McGill Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, CIFAR Program in Gravity and the Extreme Universe, Toronto, ON M5G 1Z8, Canada
  42. Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
  43. Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
  44. Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
  45. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany
  46. Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
  47. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  48. Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
  49. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  50. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
  51. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
  52. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
  53. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
  54. Australian Astronomical Observatory, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia
  55. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20921-400, Brazil, Departamento de Física Matemática, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, São Paulo, SP 05314-970, Brazil
  56. Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
  57. George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
  58. Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
  59. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
  60. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 6063, USA
  61. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany, Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany, Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany
  62. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada
  63. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
  64. Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455,USA
  65. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pevensey Building, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
  66. Physics Department, Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
  67. Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA, Physics Department, Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
  68. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Liberal Arts Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60603, USA
  69. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  70. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
  71. Physics Department, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
  72. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20921-400, Brazil, Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-859 Campinas, SP, Brazil
  73. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, USA, Physics Department, Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
  74. 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
  75. Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
  76. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
  77. Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada
  78. Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1110 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
  79. Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
  80. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany, Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany, Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany
  81. Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Correlations between tracers of the matter density field and gravitational lensing are sensitive to the evolution of the matter power spectrum and the expansion rate across cosmic time. Appropriately defined ratios of such correlation functions, on the other hand, depend only on the angular diameter distances to the tracer objects and to the gravitational lensing source planes. Because of their simple cosmological dependence, such ratios can exploit available signal-to-noise ratio down to small angular scales, even where directly modelling the correlation functions is difficult. We present a measurement of lensing ratios using galaxy position and lensing data from the Dark Energy Survey, and CMB lensing data from the South Pole Telescope and Planck, obtaining the highest precision lensing ratio measurements to date. Relative to the concordance CDM model, we find a best-fitting lensing ratio amplitude of A = 1.1 ± 0.1. We use the ratio measurements to generate cosmological constraints, focusing on the curvature parameter. We demonstrate that photometrically selected galaxies can be used to measure lensing ratios, and argue that future lensing ratio measurements with data from a combination of LSST and Stage-4 CMB experiments can be used to place interesting cosmological constraints, even after considering the systematic uncertainties associated with photometric redshift and galaxy shear estimation.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); 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)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
The DES and SPT Collaborations
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-07CH11359; AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1524095
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1487407; OSTI ID: 1531216; OSTI ID: 1561937
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1810.02212; FERMILAB-PUB-18-547-AE
Journal Information:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 487 Journal Issue: 1; ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Royal Astronomical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
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Cited by: 14 works
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