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Title: A measurement of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by galaxy clusters using data from the south pole telescope

Journal Article · · Astrophysical Journal
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  1. Center for Particle Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (United States)
  2. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 (United States)
  3. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 (United States)
  4. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 (United States)
  5. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 (United States)
  6. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States)
  7. Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 (United States)
  8. Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, D-81679 München (Germany)
  9. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, 5110 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110 (United States)
  10. NIST Quantum Devices Group, Boulder, CO 80305 (United States)
  11. Departamento de Astronomia y Astrosifica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica (Chile)
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Clusters of galaxies are expected to gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and thereby generate a distinct signal in the CMB on arcminute scales. Measurements of this effect can be used to constrain the masses of galaxy clusters with CMB data alone. Here we present a measurement of lensing of the CMB by galaxy clusters using data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). We develop a maximum likelihood approach to extract the CMB cluster lensing signal and validate the method on mock data. We quantify the effects on our analysis of several potential sources of systematic error and find that they generally act to reduce the best-fit cluster mass. It is estimated that this bias to lower cluster mass is roughly 0.85σ in units of the statistical error bar, although this estimate should be viewed as an upper limit. We apply our maximum likelihood technique to 513 clusters selected via their Sunyaev–Zeldovich (SZ) signatures in SPT data, and rule out the null hypothesis of no lensing at 3.1σ. The lensing-derived mass estimate for the full cluster sample is consistent with that inferred from the SZ flux: M{sub 200,lens}=0.83{sub −0.37}{sup +0.38} M{sub 200,SZ} (68% C.L., statistical error only).

OSTI ID:
22883004
Journal Information:
Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 806, Issue 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Since 2009, the country of publication for this journal is the UK.; ISSN 0004-637X
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

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