1. Constraints on the redshift evolution of astrophysical feedback with Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect cross-correlations
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I. Sevilla-Noarbe, Jennifer L. Marshall, N. Kuropatkin, L. N. da Costa, J. Orlowski-Scherer, Bhuvnesh Jain, Ramon Miquel, D. L. Hollowood, S. Serrano, Elisabeth Krause, Risa H. Wechsler, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Felipe Menanteau, J. De Vicente, P. Doel, S. B. Pandey, David J. Brooks, Ravi K. Sheth, G. Tarle, Flavia Sobreira, M. E. C. Swanson, Adam Lidz, S. Desai, J. C. Hill, W. G. Hartley, R. Cawthon, E. Bertin, A. Roodman, Tommaso Giannantonio, M. J. Devlin, F. J. Castander, Zhilei Xu, Joshua A. Frieman, E. Buckley-Geer, A. Carnero Rosell, James E. Aguirre, E. Suchyta, August E. Evrard, D. W. Gerdes, J. Gschwend, M. A. G. Maia, J. Carretero, David J. James, E. J. Baxter, J. P. Dietrich, Juan Garcia-Bellido, J. DeRose, M. Carrasco Kind, E. J. Sanchez, K. Kuehn, H. T. Diehl, Peter Melchior, A. A. Plazas, Salcedo Romero de Ávila, Robert A. Gruendl, Ningfeng Zhu, B. Flaugher, M. N. K. Smith, P. Fosalba, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), DES, and UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica
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High energy ,Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,Higher education ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Library science ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,0103 physical sciences ,media_common.cataloged_instance ,European union ,010306 general physics ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,media_common ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,business.industry ,European research ,Física ,Cosmology ,13. Climate action ,Research council ,Fundamental physics ,Christian ministry ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,business ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
An understanding of astrophysical feedback is important for constraining models of galaxy formation and for extracting cosmological information from current and future weak lensing surveys. The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, quantified via the Compton-$y$ parameter, is a powerful tool for studying feedback, because it directly probes the pressure of the hot, ionized gas residing in dark matter halos. Cross-correlations between galaxies and maps of Compton-$y$ obtained from cosmic microwave background surveys are sensitive to the redshift evolution of the gas pressure, and its dependence on halo mass. In this work, we use galaxies identified in year one data from the Dark Energy Survey and Compton-$y$ maps constructed from Planck observations. We find highly significant (roughly $12\sigma$) detections of galaxy-$y$ cross-correlation in multiple redshift bins. By jointly fitting these measurements as well as measurements of galaxy clustering, we constrain the halo bias-weighted, gas pressure of the Universe as a function of redshift between $0.15 \lesssim z \lesssim 0.75$. We compare these measurements to predictions from hydrodynamical simulations, allowing us to constrain the amount of thermal energy in the halo gas relative to that resulting from gravitational collapse., Comment: 21 pages, 12 figures, comments welcome
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- 2019