CMB-Cluster Lensing Detection via SPTpol
CMB-Cluster Lensing Detection via SPTpol
DES-2018-0395
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Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology,
Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
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Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Campus UAB,
Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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School of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science,
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA 60637
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Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians
Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, 81679 München, Germany
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California Institute of Technology, MS 249-17,
1216 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA, USA 91125
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Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA,
Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil
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Observatório Nacional, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil
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Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana 502285, India
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Excellence Cluster Origins, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
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Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, 81679 Munich, Germany
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Department of Physics, McGill University, 3600 Rue University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada
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Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Harvey Mudd College, 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA 91711
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European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
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Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
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Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
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Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720
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Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA 80309
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Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA 80309
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Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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Dept. of Physics, Stanford University, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
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Department of Physics, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, USA 95616
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Departamento de Física Matemática, Instituto de Física,
Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, São Paulo, SP, 05314-970, Brazil
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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
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Department of Physics, University of Michigan, 450 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 48109
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Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain
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TAPIR, Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics,
California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA, USA 91125
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Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto,
50 St George St, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H4, Canada
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Materials Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory,
9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL, USA 60439
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota,
116 Church Street S.E. Minneapolis, MN, USA 55455
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NASA Postdoctoral Program Senior Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pevensey Building, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK
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Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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Physics Department, Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics,
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA 44106
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Department of Physics, Yale University, P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, CT 06520-8120
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Liberal Arts Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, USA 60603
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Three-Speed Logic, Inc., Vancouver, B.C., V6A 2J8, Canada
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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Brandeis University, Physics Department, 415 South Street, Waltham MA 02453
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, USA 02138
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Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology,
Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
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Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
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Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto,
50 St George St, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H4, Canada
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Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA 20742
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Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
(Dated: Accepted XXX. Received YYY; in original form ZZZ)
We report the first detection of gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters using only the po-
larization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The lensing signal is obtained using a new
estimator that extracts the lensing dipole signature from stacked images formed by rotating the
cluster-centered Stokes Q/U map cutouts along the direction of the locally measured background
CMB polarization gradient. Using data from the SPTpol 500 deg2 survey at the locations of roughly
18,000 clusters with richness λ ≥ 10 from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 full galaxy cluster
catalog, we detect lensing at 4.8σ. The mean stacked mass of the selected sample is found to be
(1.43 ± 0.40) × 1014 M which is in good agreement with optical weak lensing based estimates using
DES data and CMB-lensing based estimates using SPTpol temperature data. This measurement is
a key first step for cluster cosmology with future low-noise CMB surveys, like CMB-S4, for which
CMB polarization will be the primary channel for cluster lensing measurements.
Introduction. — Galaxy clusters are the most massive both temperature and polarization anisotropies of the
gravitationally bound structures in the Universe. Mea- CMB. As the amplitude of the lensing signal is propor-
suring their abundance as a function of mass and redshift tional to the local CMB gradient, lensing of the brighter
can provide tight constraints on the cosmological parame- CMB temperature anisotropies yields a higher S/N com-
ters that influence the geometry and growth of structures pared to polarization. A number of experiments have
in the Universe [see 1, for a review] that are complemen- now detected the CMB-cluster lensing signal in temper-
tary to baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) or cosmic mi- ature [9, 18–23], yielding mass constraints at the 10%
crowave background (CMB) datasets. The independent level [20]. However, CMB temperature data are suscep-
measurements of cluster abundance, BAO, and CMB, tible to foregrounds that set an effective noise floor for
which have different parameter degeneracies, can be com- future measurements. CMB polarization, on the other
bined to obtain even stronger constraints [2–12]. How- hand, is robust to foregrounds as contaminating signals
ever, the cluster abundance measurements rely on precise from the galaxy cluster itself and other foregrounds are
mass measurements, which are currently limited by un- much lower in polarization than temperature [see Fig. 2
certainties in the conversion of the survey observable to of 24]. As a result, polarized CMB-cluster lensing will be
cluster mass [13]. Upcoming large surveys are forecasted crucial to the cluster mass constraints from next genera-
to detect tens of thousands of galaxy clusters, an order of tion low-noise surveys [24].
magnitude more than current surveys [14–16]. Of these, Several polarized CMB-cluster lensing estimators have
CMB surveys, in which galaxy clusters are observed via been proposed [17, 25, 26], however none have yet been
redshift-independent Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect, will demonstrated on data. In this work we detect, for the
return >∼ 10, 000 clusters above z ≥ 1 [16]. Given such first time, the CMB-cluster lensing signal from polariza-
an enormous increase in the sample size compared to the tion data alone. We develop a new estimator that ex-
current surveys, it is crucial to develop robust methods tracts the lensing dipole signature from the CMB maps
to measure cluster masses accurately. by rotating the cluster-centered cutouts along the direc-
In contrast to other cluster observables (optical rich- tion of the local background CMB polarization gradient.
ness, SZ flux, and X-ray flux), gravitational lensing of The method is easy to implement and computationally
galaxies or the CMB offers an unbiased mass measure- much less expensive compared to the traditional maxi-
ment since lensing exactly traces the underlying mat- mum likelihood estimator [17, 19, 24, 27] which models
ter distribution. Weak lensing measurements of galaxies the lensing signal using a large suite of simulations. We
have high signal-to-noise (S/N ) at low redshifts, but the apply this estimator to the SPTpol 500 deg2 polariza-
S/N falls steeply at high redshifts with the number of tion Stokes Q/U maps at the location of clusters from
distant lensed background galaxies observed with suffi- the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 catalog. We re-
ciently high S/N to facilitate lensing. ject the null hypothesis of no lensing at 4.8σ in the com-
By contrast, since the CMB originates behind all of bined Q/U maps. This result demonstrates the viability
the clusters, lensing of the CMB by clusters is a highly of achieving sub-percent level mass constraints [24] from
promising tool for measuring masses of clusters above next-generation CMB surveys like CMB-S4 [16].
z ≥ 1 [17]. The CMB-cluster signal can be observed with Throughout this work, we use the Planck 2015 best-
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fit ΛCDM cosmology [28] with h = 0.67, and assume this CMB gradient field, it produces a dipole-like pattern
the absence of primordial B-modes. The lensed CMB [17, 39] that is oriented along the direction of the gradi-
power spectra were obtained using CAMB [29]. All the halo ent [see Fig. 1 of 17]. This is the basis for the lensing
quantities are defined with respect to a sphere within estimator developed here which uses the following steps
which the average mass density is 200 times the mean to extract the lensing dipole and constrain the cluster
density of the Universe at the halo redshift. masses:
Dataset I: The SPTpol 500 deg2 survey. — We use two
1. Extract 100 × 100 Nclus cluster-centered or Nrand
datasets in this work. The first is the 150 GHz Stokes
random cutouts d̃ from the Stokes Q/U maps.
Q/U polarization maps of a 500 deg2 region (R.A. = 22h
to 2h; Decl. = -65◦ to -50◦ ) from the SPTpol sur- 2. Determine the median value of the gradient direc-
vey. The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-m tele- tion θ∇ = tan−1 (∇y /∇x ) in every Q/U cutout.
scope located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole sta-
tion [30, 31] and SPTpol was the second camera on the 3. Rotate ith cluster cutout d̃i along θ∇,i to obtain di .
SPT. It has 1176 polarization-sensitive transition-edge-
4. Determine weights w (see below) for each cutout
sensor bolometers [32] and roughly a 1.0 2 FWHM beam
and stack the mean-subtracted cutouts to obtain
at 150 GHz. The white noise level of the polarization
the weighted stacked signal sc (sr ) at the cluster
maps is ∆P ∼ 7 µK-arcmin. The maps used in this anal-
(random) locations.
ysis were made in the Sanson-Flamsteed flat-sky projec-
tion with a pixel resolution of 10 . From these Stokes 5. Obtain the final lensing dipole signal as: s = sc −sr .
Q/U maps, we remove an estimate of the temperature-
to-polarization leakage (T → P ) as X = X − X T where The gradient direction determination in step 2 is lim-
X ∈ [Q, U ], Q = 1.65%, and U = 0.71%. Unaccounted ited to a 60 × 60 region in each cutout and to reduce
for, T → P would introduce temperature signal from the noise penalty in the gradient estimation, we apply a
the galaxy clusters, such as the SZ effects [33, 34] or Wiener filter of the form
C` (C` + N` )−1 , ` ≤ 2000
emission from radio galaxies and dusty galaxies, into the
W` = (1)
polarization maps. More details about the map making 0 , otherwise
procedure can be found in Henning et al. [35].
where N` is the noise spectrum and C` corresponds to
Dataset II: DES cluster catalog. — The second data
C`QQ , C`U U calculated from C`EE , C`BB . Note that we use
product used in the analysis is a sample of optically
Eq.(1) only for the gradient angle determination and the
selected clusters from the DES, which is an optical to
stack is obtained from the unfiltered, rotated 100 × 100
near-infrared survey from the Atacama region in north-
cutouts. We observe no significant change in our results
ern Chile. In this work, we use a cluster catalog selected
when we replace N` in Eq.(1) by the full 2D noise power
by the redMaPPer (RM) algorithm [36] using DES Year-3
spectral density.
observations of ∼ 3000 deg2 , specifically we use the full
The weight wi = wi,n wi,g assigned to cluster i while
flux-limited catalog version: y3_gold:v6.4.22+2. We
stacking in step 4 can be decomposed into two pieces:
select all clusters with richness λ ≥ 10 within the SPT-
one based on the inverse noise variance σi2 at the location
pol survey area, where we exclude any cluster within 300
i; and the other using qthe median value of the magnitude
of the survey boundary or within 100 of a source with
S150GHz > 6.4 mJy. In total we work with 17,661 clus- of the local gradient ∇2yi + ∇2xi . The latter serves to
ters, of which 3,868 have richness λ ≥ 20. The cluster improve the S/N since the lensing amplitude is propor-
redshifts are estimated photometrically with uncertain- tional to the gradient amplitude.
ties of σ̂z = 0.01(1 + z) [37]. We neglect redshift uncer- The stack sc from cluster locations, however, is domi-
tainties in this work since the impact of photo−z errors nated by the mean large-scale CMB polarization gradient
on CMB-lensing masses is negligible [24]. The redshifts that we call the background. We estimate and subtract
span 0.1 ≤ z ≤ 0.95 with a median value of zmed = 0.72. the background sr from a similar set of operations on
The low-richness (λ < 20) haloes are included to im- Nrand = 50, 000 random locations. The final rotated,
prove the lensing S/N as the goal here is only to make the background subtracted signal stack is constructed as
first measurement of the polarized CMB-cluster lensing PNclus PNrand
signal. Since these low mass objects are not well charac- c wc [dc − hdc i] wr [dr − hdr i]
s ≡ sc −sr = PNclus − r PNrand
terized by the RM algorithm, we caution the reader when c wc r wr
using results from the low-richness objects in this work (2)
for any cosmological analysis. where d represents the Q/U cutout at a cluster loca-
Lensing estimator. — On scales corresponding to the tion c or a random location r. Along with the lensing
angular size of a galaxy cluster, the primordial CMB is dipole, s includes contribution from other sources: fore-
exponentially damped [38] and the field can be well ap- grounds, instrumental noise, and the residual large-scale
proximated by a gradient. When a galaxy cluster lenses CMB gradient.
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Simulations: Stacked Q Simulations: Stacked U M ∈ [0, 4] × 1014 M and divide the parameter grid lin-
4 early in bins ∆M = 0.1 × 1014 M . From the likelihood,
we measure the median mass and 1σ uncertainty, defined
Y [arcmin]
Y [arcmin]
QU
Simulations
−4 ±0.10µK
−4 0 4 −4 0 4
Clusters
X [arcmin] X [arcmin]
Normalized L
(Q − U )
SPTpol T FIG. 3. Rotated, background-subtracted Q and U stacks
DES from the SPTpol data showing the cluster lensing dipole sig-
nals. Unlike in Fig. 1, these images have been filtered to
remove the small-scale noise for illustrative purposes.
Data
Physics Frontier Center grant PHY-1125897 to the Kavli ipants from Spanish institutions are partially supported
Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of by MINECO under grants AYA2015-71825, ESP2015-
Chicago, the Kavli Foundation and the Gordon and 66861, FPA2015-68048, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597,
Betty Moore Foundation grant GBMF 947. This re- and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds
search used resources of the National Energy Research from the European Union. IFAE is partially funded by
Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a DOE Office of the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science Research leading to these results has received funding
of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. from the European Research Council under the Euro-
DE-AC02-05CH11231. pean Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-
Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by 2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329,
the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Sci- and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Aus-
ence Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education tralian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-
of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Coun- sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), through project number
cil of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Fund- CE110001020, and the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de
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