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1. First Constraints on the Epoch of Reionization Using the non-Gaussianity of the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel{'}dovich Effect from the South Pole Telescope and {\it Herschel}-SPIRE Observations

Author: Raghunathan, S., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Ansarinejad, B., Archipley, M., Austermann, J. E., Balkenhol, L., Beall, J. A., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bock, J., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Camphuis, E., Carlstrom, J. E., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chichura, P. M., Chou, T. -L., Citron, R., Coerver, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., Dibert, K. R., Dobbs, M. A., Doussot, A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fichman, K., Foster, A., Galli, S., Gallicchio, J., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Ge, F., George, E. M., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guidi, F., Guns, S., Gupta, N., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Hrubes, J. D., Hryciuk, A., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Kéruzoré, F., Knox, L., Korman, M., Kornoelje, K., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Levy, K., Li, D., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Maniyar, A., McMahon, J. J., Menanteau, F., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Nakato, Y., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Patil, S., Phadke, K. A., Prabhu, K., Pryke, C., Quan, W., Rahimi, M., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Schiappucci, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Trendafilova, C., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Viero, M. P., Wan, Y., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Young, M. R., Zebrowski, J. A., Zemcov, M., Raghunathan, S., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Ansarinejad, B., Archipley, M., Austermann, J. E., Balkenhol, L., Beall, J. A., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bock, J., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Camphuis, E., Carlstrom, J. E., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chichura, P. M., Chou, T. -L., Citron, R., Coerver, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., Dibert, K. R., Dobbs, M. A., Doussot, A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fichman, K., Foster, A., Galli, S., Gallicchio, J., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Ge, F., George, E. M., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guidi, F., Guns, S., Gupta, N., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Hrubes, J. D., Hryciuk, A., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Kéruzoré, F., Knox, L., Korman, M., Kornoelje, K., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Levy, K., Li, D., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Maniyar, A., McMahon, J. J., Menanteau, F., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Nakato, Y., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Patil, S., Phadke, K. A., Prabhu, K., Pryke, C., Quan, W., Rahimi, M., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Schiappucci, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Trendafilova, C., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Viero, M. P., Wan, Y., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Young, M. R., Zebrowski, J. A., and Zemcov, M.
Abstract: We report results from an analysis aimed at detecting the trispectrum of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel{'}dovich (kSZ) effect by combining data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and {\it Herschel}-SPIRE experiments over a 100 ${\rm deg}^{2}$ field. The SPT observations combine data from the previous and current surveys, namely SPTpol and SPT-3G, to achieve depths of 4.5, 3, and 16 $\mu {\rm K-arcmin}$ in bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz. For SPIRE, we include data from the 600 and 857 GHz bands. We reconstruct the velocity-induced large-scale correlation of the small-scale kSZ signal with a quadratic estimator that uses two cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps, constructed by optimally combining data from all the frequency bands. We reject the null hypothesis of a zero trispectrum at $10.3\sigma$ level. However, the measured trispectrum contains contributions from both the kSZ and other undesired components, such as CMB lensing and astrophysical foregrounds, with kSZ being sub-dominant. We use the \textsc{Agora} simulations to estimate the expected signal from CMB lensing and astrophysical foregrounds. After accounting for the contributions from CMB lensing and foreground signals, we do not detect an excess kSZ-only trispectrum and use this non-detection to set constraints on reionization. By applying a prior based on observations of the Gunn-Peterson trough, we obtain an upper limit on the duration of reionization of $\Delta z_{\rm re, 50} < 4.5$ (95\% C.L). We find these constraints are fairly robust to foregrounds assumptions. This trispectrum measurement is independent of, but consistent with, {\it Planck}'s optical depth measurement. This result is the first constraint on the epoch of reionization using the non-Gaussian nature of the kSZ signal., Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures (3 in main text and 2 in Appendix); To be submitted to PRL; Comments welcome; Data products and plotting scripts can be downloaded from https://github.com/sriniraghunathan/kSZ_4pt_SPT_SPIRE
Published: 2024

2. SPT Clusters with DES and HST Weak Lensing. II. Cosmological Constraints from the Abundance of Massive Halos

Author: Bocquet, S., Grandis, S., Bleem, L. E., Klein, M., Mohr, J. J., Schrabback, T., Abbott, T. M. C., Ade, P. A. R., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Allen, S. W., Alves, O., Amon, A., Anderson, A. J., Annis, J., Ansarinejad, B., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bayliss, M., Beall, J. A., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bhargava, S., Bianchini, F., Brodwin, M., Brooks, D., Bryant, L., Campos, A., Canning, R. E. A., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C. L., Chang, C., Chaubal, P., Chen, R., Chiang, H. C., Choi, A., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Cordero, J., Costanzi, M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, C., Davis, T. M., DeRose, J., Desai, S., de Haan, T., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flores, A. M., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., George, E. M., Giannini, G., Gladders, M. D., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Irwin, K. D., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Khullar, G., Kim, K., Knox, L., Kraft, R., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Kéruzoré, F., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Leget, P. -F., Li, D., Lin, H., Lowitz, A., MacCrann, N., Mahler, G., Mantz, A., Marshall, J. L., McCullough, J., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Montgomery, J., Myles, J., Natoli, T., Navarro-Alsina, A., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pandey, S., Paschos, P., Patil, S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Prat, J., Pryke, C., Raveri, M., Reichardt, C. L., Roberson, J., Rollins, R. P., Romero, C., Roodman, A., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Saliwanchik, B. R., Salvati, L., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Cid, D. Sanchez, Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sharon, K., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Somboonpanyakul, T., Sommer, M., Stalder, B., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Strazzullo, V., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., To, C., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, C., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Vikhlinin, A., von der Linden, A., Wang, G., Weaverdyck, N., Weller, J., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yefremenko, V., Yin, B., Young, M., Zebrowski, J. A., Zhang, Y., Zohren, H., Zuntz, J., Bocquet, S., Grandis, S., Bleem, L. E., Klein, M., Mohr, J. J., Schrabback, T., Abbott, T. M. C., Ade, P. A. R., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Allen, S. W., Alves, O., Amon, A., Anderson, A. J., Annis, J., Ansarinejad, B., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bayliss, M., Beall, J. A., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bhargava, S., Bianchini, F., Brodwin, M., Brooks, D., Bryant, L., Campos, A., Canning, R. E. A., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C. L., Chang, C., Chaubal, P., Chen, R., Chiang, H. C., Choi, A., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Cordero, J., Costanzi, M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, C., Davis, T. M., DeRose, J., Desai, S., de Haan, T., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flores, A. M., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., George, E. M., Giannini, G., Gladders, M. D., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Irwin, K. D., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Khullar, G., Kim, K., Knox, L., Kraft, R., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Kéruzoré, F., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Leget, P. -F., Li, D., Lin, H., Lowitz, A., MacCrann, N., Mahler, G., Mantz, A., Marshall, J. L., McCullough, J., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Montgomery, J., Myles, J., Natoli, T., Navarro-Alsina, A., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pandey, S., Paschos, P., Patil, S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Prat, J., Pryke, C., Raveri, M., Reichardt, C. L., Roberson, J., Rollins, R. P., Romero, C., Roodman, A., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Saliwanchik, B. R., Salvati, L., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Cid, D. Sanchez, Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sharon, K., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Somboonpanyakul, T., Sommer, M., Stalder, B., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Strazzullo, V., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., To, C., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, C., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Vikhlinin, A., von der Linden, A., Wang, G., Weaverdyck, N., Weller, J., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yefremenko, V., Yin, B., Young, M., Zebrowski, J. A., Zhang, Y., Zohren, H., and Zuntz, J.
Abstract: We present cosmological constraints from the abundance of galaxy clusters selected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in South Pole Telescope (SPT) data with a simultaneous mass calibration using weak gravitational lensing data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The cluster sample is constructed from the combined SPT-SZ, SPTpol ECS, and SPTpol 500d surveys, and comprises 1,005 confirmed clusters in the redshift range $0.25-1.78$ over a total sky area of 5,200 deg$^2$. We use DES Year 3 weak-lensing data for 688 clusters with redshifts $z<0.95$ and HST weak-lensing data for 39 clusters with $0.6
Published: 2024

3. PyTAG: Tabletop Games for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Author: Balla, Martin, Long, George E. M., Goodman, James, Gaina, Raluca D., Perez-Liebana, Diego, Balla, Martin, Long, George E. M., Goodman, James, Gaina, Raluca D., and Perez-Liebana, Diego
Abstract: Modern Tabletop Games present various interesting challenges for Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning. In this paper, we introduce PyTAG, a new framework that supports interacting with a large collection of games implemented in the Tabletop Games framework. In this work we highlight the challenges tabletop games provide, from a game-playing agent perspective, along with the opportunities they provide for future research. Additionally, we highlight the technical challenges that involve training Reinforcement Learning agents on these games. To explore the Multi-agent setting provided by PyTAG we train the popular Proximal Policy Optimisation Reinforcement Learning algorithm using self-play on a subset of games and evaluate the trained policies against some simple agents and Monte-Carlo Tree Search implemented in the Tabletop Games framework.
Published: 2024

4. SPT-SZ MCMF: An extension of the SPT-SZ catalog over the DES region

Author: Klein, M., Mohr, J. J., Bocquet, S., Aguena, M., Allen, S. W., Alves, O., Ansarinejad, B., Ashby, M. L. N., Bacon, D., Bayliss, M., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Brodwin, M., Brooks, D., Bulbul, E., Burke, D. L., Canning, R. E. A., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, T. M., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Flores, A. M., Frieman, J., George, E. M., Giannini, G., Gladders, M. D., Gonzalez, A. H., Grandis, S., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., James, D. J., Khullar, G., Kim, K., Knox, L., Kraft, R., Kéruzoré, F., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Mahler, G., Mantz, A., Marrone, D. P., Marshall, J. L., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Myles, J., Padin, S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Reil, K., Roberson, J., Romer, A. K., Romero, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Salvati, L., Sanchez, E., Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Schrabback, T., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sharon, K., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Somboonpanyakul, T., Stalder, B., Stanford, S. A., Stark, A. A., Strazzullo, V., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., von der Linden, A., Weaverdyck, N., Williamson, R., Wiseman, P., Young, M., Klein, M., Mohr, J. J., Bocquet, S., Aguena, M., Allen, S. W., Alves, O., Ansarinejad, B., Ashby, M. L. N., Bacon, D., Bayliss, M., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Brodwin, M., Brooks, D., Bulbul, E., Burke, D. L., Canning, R. E. A., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, T. M., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Ferrero, I., Flores, A. M., Frieman, J., George, E. M., Giannini, G., Gladders, M. D., Gonzalez, A. H., Grandis, S., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., James, D. J., Khullar, G., Kim, K., Knox, L., Kraft, R., Kéruzoré, F., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Mahler, G., Mantz, A., Marrone, D. P., Marshall, J. L., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Myles, J., Padin, S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Reil, K., Roberson, J., Romer, A. K., Romero, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Salvati, L., Sanchez, E., Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Schrabback, T., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sharon, K., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Somboonpanyakul, T., Stalder, B., Stanford, S. A., Stark, A. A., Strazzullo, V., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., von der Linden, A., Weaverdyck, N., Williamson, R., Wiseman, P., and Young, M.
Abstract: We present an extension to a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) selected cluster catalog based on observations from the South Pole Telescope (SPT); this catalog extends to lower signal-to-noise than the previous SPT-SZ catalog and therefore includes lower mass clusters. Optically derived redshifts, centers, richnesses and morphological parameters together with catalog contamination and completeness statistics are extracted using the multi-component matched filter algorithm (MCMF) applied to the S/N>4 SPT-SZ candidate list and the Dark Energy Survey (DES) photometric galaxy catalog. The main catalog contains 811 sources above S/N=4, has 91% purity and is 95% complete with respect to the original SZE selection. It contains 50% more total clusters and twice as many clusters above z=0.8 in comparison to the original SPT-SZ sample. The MCMF algorithm allows us to define subsamples of the desired purity with traceable impact on catalog completeness. As an example, we provide two subsamples with S/N>4.25 and S/N>4.5 for which the sample contamination and cleaning-induced incompleteness are both as low as the expected Poisson noise for samples of their size. The subsample with S/N>4.5 has 98% purity and 96% completeness, and will be included in a combined SPT cluster and DES weak-lensing cosmological analysis. We measure the number of false detections in the SPT-SZ candidate list as function of S/N, finding that it follows that expected from assuming Gaussian noise, but with a lower amplitude compared to previous estimates from simulations., Comment: 16 pages, 17 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Published: 2023

5. Simultaneous Millimeter-wave, Gamma-ray, and Optical Monitoring of the Blazar PKS 2326-502 During a Flaring State

Author: Hood II, J. C., Simpson, A., McDaniel, A., Foster, A., Ade, P. A. R., Ajello, M., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Madejski, G., Malkan, M., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Montgomery, J., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Tucker, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Zebrowski, J. A., Zhang, L., Hood II, J. C., Simpson, A., McDaniel, A., Foster, A., Ade, P. A. R., Ajello, M., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Madejski, G., Malkan, M., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Montgomery, J., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Tucker, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Zebrowski, J. A., and Zhang, L.
Abstract: Including millimeter-wave (mm-wave) data in multi-wavelength studies of the variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) can provide insights into AGN physics that are not easily accessible at other wavelengths. We demonstrate in this work the potential of cosmic microwave background (CMB) telescopes to provide long-term, high-cadence mm-wave AGN monitoring over large fractions of sky. We report on a pilot study using data from the SPTpol instrument on the South Pole Telescope (SPT), which was designed to observe the CMB at arcminute and larger angular scales. Between 2013 and 2016, SPTpol was used primarily to observe a single 500 deg^2 field, covering the entire field several times per day with detectors sensitive to radiation in bands centered at 95 and 150 GHz. We use SPT 150 GHz observations to create AGN light curves, and we compare these mm-wave light curves to those at other wavelengths, in particular gamma-ray and optical. In this Letter, we focus on a single source, PKS 2326-502, which has extensive, day-timescale monitoring data in gamma-ray, optical, and now mm-wave between 2013 and 2016. We find PKS 2326-502 to be in a flaring state in the first two years of this monitoring, and we present a search for evidence of correlated variability between mm-wave, optical R band, and gamma-ray observations. This pilot study is paving the way for AGN monitoring with current and upcoming CMB experiments such as SPT-3G, Simons Observatory, and CMB-S4, including multi-wavelength studies with facilities such as VRO-LSST., Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted to Astrophysical Journal Letters
Published: 2023
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6. Galaxy Clusters Discovered via the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the 500-square-degree SPTpol Survey

Author: Bleem, L. E., Klein, M., Abbott, T. M. C., Ade, P. A. R., Aguena, M., Alves, O., Anderson, A. J., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Ansarinejad, B., Archipley, M., Ashby, M. L. N., Austermann, J. E., Bacon, D., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Calzadilla, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Costanzi, M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Floyd, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., Garc'ia-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., George, E. M., Giannini, G., Grandis, S., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Mena-Fernández, J., James, D. J., Kéruzoré, F., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lee, S., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Marshal, J. L., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Myles, J., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pereira, M. E. S., Pieres, A., Malag'on, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Rodr'iguez-Monroy, M., Romer, A. K., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Salvati, L., Sanchez, E., Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Schrabback, T., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Somboonpanyakul, T., Stalder, B., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Tucker, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Vincenzi, M., Wang, G., Weller, J., Whitehorn, N., Wiseman, P., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Zebrowski, J. A., Zhang, Y., Bleem, L. E., Klein, M., Abbott, T. M. C., Ade, P. A. R., Aguena, M., Alves, O., Anderson, A. J., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Ansarinejad, B., Archipley, M., Ashby, M. L. N., Austermann, J. E., Bacon, D., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Calzadilla, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Costanzi, M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Floyd, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., Garc'ia-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., George, E. M., Giannini, G., Grandis, S., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Mena-Fernández, J., James, D. J., Kéruzoré, F., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lee, S., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Marshal, J. L., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Myles, J., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pereira, M. E. S., Pieres, A., Malag'on, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Rodr'iguez-Monroy, M., Romer, A. K., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Salvati, L., Sanchez, E., Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Schrabback, T., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Somboonpanyakul, T., Stalder, B., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Tucker, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Vincenzi, M., Wang, G., Weller, J., Whitehorn, N., Wiseman, P., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Zebrowski, J. A., and Zhang, Y.
Abstract: We present a catalog of 689 galaxy cluster candidates detected at significance $\xi>4$ via their thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signature in 95 and 150 GHz data from the 500-square-degree SPTpol survey. We use optical and infrared data from the Dark Energy Camera and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and \spitzer \ satellites, to confirm 544 of these candidates as clusters with $\sim94\%$ purity. The sample has an approximately redshift-independent mass threshold at redshift $z>0.25$ and spans $1.5 \times 10^{14} < M_{500c} < 9.1 \times 10^{14}$ $M_\odot/h_{70}$ \ and $0.031$. We use external radio data from the Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS) to estimate contamination to the SZ signal from synchrotron sources. The contamination reduces the recovered $\xi$ by a median value of 0.032, or $\sim0.8\%$ of the $\xi=4$ threshold value, and $\sim7\%$ of candidates have a predicted contamination greater than $\Delta \xi = 1$. With the exception of a small number of systems $(<1\%)$, an analysis of clusters detected in single-frequency 95 and 150 GHz data shows no significant contamination of the SZ signal by emission from dusty or synchrotron sources. This cluster sample will be a key component in upcoming astrophysical and cosmological analyses of clusters. The SPTpol millimeter-wave maps and associated data products used to produce this sample are available at https://pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/sptpol_500d_clusters/index.html, and the NASA LAMBDA website. An interactive sky server with the SPTpol maps and Dark Energy Survey data release 2 images is also available at NCSA https://skyviewer.ncsa.illinois.edu., Comment: Matches version accepted by OJA. 19 pages + references, 14 figures, cluster candidate table provided in Appendix. Data products available at https://pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/sptpol_500d_clusters/index.html and an interactive sky server at https://skyviewer.ncsa.illinois.edu
Published: 2023
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7. PyTAG: Challenges and Opportunities for Reinforcement Learning in Tabletop Games

Author: Balla, Martin, Long, George E. M., Jeurissen, Dominik, Goodman, James, Gaina, Raluca D., Perez-Liebana, Diego, Balla, Martin, Long, George E. M., Jeurissen, Dominik, Goodman, James, Gaina, Raluca D., and Perez-Liebana, Diego
Abstract: In recent years, Game AI research has made important breakthroughs using Reinforcement Learning (RL). Despite this, RL for modern tabletop games has gained little to no attention, even when they offer a range of unique challenges compared to video games. To bridge this gap, we introduce PyTAG, a Python API for interacting with the Tabletop Games framework (TAG). TAG contains a growing set of more than 20 modern tabletop games, with a common API for AI agents. We present techniques for training RL agents in these games and introduce baseline results after training Proximal Policy Optimisation algorithms on a subset of games. Finally, we discuss the unique challenges complex modern tabletop games provide, now open to RL research through PyTAG., Comment: Accepted for Publication in: IEEE Conference on Games (2023)
Published: 2023

8. Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck I: Construction of CMB Lensing Maps and Modeling Choices

Author: Omori, Y., Baxter, E. J., Chang, C., Friedrich, O., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Blazek, J., Bleem, L. E., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Crawford, T. M., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Crites, A. T., Pereira, M. E. S., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lima, M., Luong-Van, D., March, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Romer, A. K., Ruhl, J. E., Sanchez, E., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Vieira, J. D., Weller, J., Williamson, R., Omori, Y., Baxter, E. J., Chang, C., Friedrich, O., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Blazek, J., Bleem, L. E., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Crawford, T. M., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Crites, A. T., Pereira, M. E. S., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lima, M., Luong-Van, D., March, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Romer, A. K., Ruhl, J. E., Sanchez, E., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Vieira, J. D., Weller, J., and Williamson, R.
Abstract: Joint analyses of cross-correlations between measurements of galaxy positions, galaxy lensing, and lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) offer powerful constraints on the large-scale structure of the Universe. In a forthcoming analysis, we will present cosmological constraints from the analysis of such cross-correlations measured using Year 3 data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), and CMB data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck. Here we present two key ingredients of this analysis: (1) an improved CMB lensing map in the SPT-SZ survey footprint, and (2) the analysis methodology that will be used to extract cosmological information from the cross-correlation measurements. Relative to previous lensing maps made from the same CMB observations, we have implemented techniques to remove contamination from the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect, enabling the extraction of cosmological information from smaller angular scales of the cross-correlation measurements than in previous analyses with DES Year 1 data. We describe our model for the cross-correlations between these maps and DES data, and validate our modeling choices to demonstrate the robustness of our analysis. We then forecast the expected cosmological constraints from the galaxy survey-CMB lensing auto and cross-correlations. We find that the galaxy-CMB lensing and galaxy shear-CMB lensing correlations will on their own provide a constraint on $S_8=\sigma_8 \sqrt{\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3}$ at the few percent level, providing a powerful consistency check for the DES-only constraints. We explore scenarios where external priors on shear calibration are removed, finding that the joint analysis of CMB lensing cross-correlations can provide constraints on the shear calibration amplitude at the 5 to 10% level., Comment: 30 pages, 20 figures, To be submitted to PRD
Published: 2022

9. Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck II: Cross-correlation measurements and cosmological constraints

Author: Chang, C., Omori, Y., Baxter, E. J., Doux, C., Choi, A., Pandey, S., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bianchini, F., Blazek, J., Bleem, L. E., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Cordero, J., Crawford, T. M., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jarvis, M., Kovacs, A., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Crites, A. T., Pereira, M. E. S., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lima, M., Luong-Van, D., March, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Rodríguez-Monroy, M., Romer, A. K., Ruhl, J. E., Sanchez, E., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Vieira, J. D., Weller, J., Williamson, R., Chang, C., Omori, Y., Baxter, E. J., Doux, C., Choi, A., Pandey, S., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bianchini, F., Blazek, J., Bleem, L. E., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Cordero, J., Crawford, T. M., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jarvis, M., Kovacs, A., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Crites, A. T., Pereira, M. E. S., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lima, M., Luong-Van, D., March, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Rodríguez-Monroy, M., Romer, A. K., Ruhl, J. E., Sanchez, E., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Vieira, J. D., Weller, J., and Williamson, R.
Abstract: Cross-correlations of galaxy positions and galaxy shears with maps of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are sensitive to the distribution of large-scale structure in the Universe. Such cross-correlations are also expected to be immune to some of the systematic effects that complicate correlation measurements internal to galaxy surveys. We present measurements and modeling of the cross-correlations between galaxy positions and galaxy lensing measured in the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey with CMB lensing maps derived from a combination of data from the 2500 deg$^2$ SPT-SZ survey conducted with the South Pole Telescope and full-sky data from the Planck satellite. The CMB lensing maps used in this analysis have been constructed in a way that minimizes biases from the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect, making them well suited for cross-correlation studies. The total signal-to-noise of the cross-correlation measurements is 23.9 (25.7) when using a choice of angular scales optimized for a linear (nonlinear) galaxy bias model. We use the cross-correlation measurements to obtain constraints on cosmological parameters. For our fiducial galaxy sample, which consist of four bins of magnitude-selected galaxies, we find constraints of $\Omega_{m} = 0.272^{+0.032}_{-0.052}$ and $S_{8} \equiv \sigma_8 \sqrt{\Omega_{m}/0.3}= 0.736^{+0.032}_{-0.028}$ ($\Omega_{m} = 0.245^{+0.026}_{-0.044}$ and $S_{8} = 0.734^{+0.035}_{-0.028}$) when assuming linear (nonlinear) galaxy bias in our modeling. Considering only the cross-correlation of galaxy shear with CMB lensing, we find $\Omega_{m} = 0.270^{+0.043}_{-0.061}$ and $S_{8} = 0.740^{+0.034}_{-0.029}$. Our constraints on $S_8$ are consistent with recent cosmic shear measurements, but lower than the values preferred by primary CMB measurements from Planck., Comment: 25 pages, 19 figures, submitted to PRD
Published: 2022

10. Asteroid Measurements at Millimeter Wavelengths with the South Pole Telescope

Author: Chichura, P. M., Foster, A., Patel, C., Ossa-Jaen, N., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Anderson, A. J., Archipley, M., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Balkenhol, L., Barry, P. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Beall, J. A., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Byrum, K., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chen, G., Chiang, H. C., Cho, H. -M., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Cliche, J. -F., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Cukierman, A., Daley, C. M., Denison, E. V., Dibert, K., Ding, J., Dobbs, M. A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fu, J., Galli, S., Gallicchio, J., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., George, E. M., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Guyser, R., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Howe, D., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O. B., Jonas, M., Jones, A., Khaire, T. S., Knox, L., Kofman, A. M., Korman, M., Kubik, D. L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Lu, C., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Michalik, D., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Patil, S., Pearson, J., Phadke, K. A., Posada, C. M., Prabhu, K., Pryke, C., Quan, W., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Riebel, D., Riedel, B., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Schiappucci, E., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Springmann, A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Story, K. T., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vale, L. R., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., Young, M. R., Chichura, P. M., Foster, A., Patel, C., Ossa-Jaen, N., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Anderson, A. J., Archipley, M., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Balkenhol, L., Barry, P. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Beall, J. A., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Byrum, K., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chen, G., Chiang, H. C., Cho, H. -M., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Cliche, J. -F., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Cukierman, A., Daley, C. M., Denison, E. V., Dibert, K., Ding, J., Dobbs, M. A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fu, J., Galli, S., Gallicchio, J., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., George, E. M., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Guyser, R., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Howe, D., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O. B., Jonas, M., Jones, A., Khaire, T. S., Knox, L., Kofman, A. M., Korman, M., Kubik, D. L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Lu, C., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Michalik, D., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Patil, S., Pearson, J., Phadke, K. A., Posada, C. M., Prabhu, K., Pryke, C., Quan, W., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Riebel, D., Riedel, B., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Schiappucci, E., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Springmann, A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Story, K. T., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vale, L. R., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., and Young, M. R.
Abstract: We present the first measurements of asteroids in millimeter wavelength (mm) data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT), which is used primarily to study the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We analyze maps of two $\sim270$ deg$^2$ sky regions near the ecliptic plane, each observed with the SPTpol camera $\sim100$ times over one month. We subtract the mean of all maps of a given field, removing static sky signal, and then average the mean-subtracted maps at known asteroid locations. We detect three asteroids$\text{ -- }$(324) Bamberga, (13) Egeria, and (22) Kalliope$\text{ -- }$with signal-to-noise ratios (S/N) of 11.2, 10.4, and 6.1, respectively, at 2.0 mm (150 GHz); we also detect (324) Bamberga with S/N of 4.1 at 3.2 mm (95 GHz). We place constraints on these asteroids' effective emissivities, brightness temperatures, and light curve modulation amplitude. Our flux density measurements of (324) Bamberga and (13) Egeria roughly agree with predictions, while our measurements of (22) Kalliope suggest lower flux, corresponding to effective emissivities of $0.66 \pm 0.11$ at 2.0 mm and $<0.47$ at 3.2mm. We predict the asteroids detectable in other SPT datasets and find good agreement with detections of (772) Tanete and (1093) Freda in recent data from the SPT-3G camera, which has $\sim10 \times$ the mapping speed of SPTpol. This work is the first focused analysis of asteroids in data from CMB surveys, and it demonstrates we can repurpose historic and future datasets for asteroid studies. Future SPT measurements can help constrain the distribution of surface properties over a larger asteroid population., Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures, to be submitted to ApJ
Published: 2022

11. Mapping gas around massive galaxies: cross-correlation of DES Y3 galaxies and Compton-$y$-maps from SPT and Planck

Author: Sánchez, J., Omori, Y., Chang, C., Bleem, L. E., Crawford, T., Drlica-Wagner, A., Raghunathan, S., Zacharegkas, G., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Alves, O., Amon, A., Avila, S., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Campos, A., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C. L., Chen, A., Choi, A., Chown, R., Costanzi, M., Crites, A. T., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, W., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., George, E. M., Gerdes, D. W., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., MacCrann, N., Marshall, J. L., McCullough, J., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Pandey, S., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Pryke, C., Raveri, M., Reichardt, C. L., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Ross, A. J., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schaffer, K. K., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, D. L., Vieira, J. D., Vincenzi, M., Weaverdyck, N., Williamson, R., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Sánchez, J., Omori, Y., Chang, C., Bleem, L. E., Crawford, T., Drlica-Wagner, A., Raghunathan, S., Zacharegkas, G., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Alves, O., Amon, A., Avila, S., Baxter, E., Bechtol, K., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Campos, A., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C. L., Chen, A., Choi, A., Chown, R., Costanzi, M., Crites, A. T., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, W., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., George, E. M., Gerdes, D. W., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., MacCrann, N., Marshall, J. L., McCullough, J., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Pandey, S., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Pryke, C., Raveri, M., Reichardt, C. L., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Ross, A. J., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schaffer, K. K., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, D. L., Vieira, J. D., Vincenzi, M., Weaverdyck, N., Williamson, R., Yanny, B., and Yin, B.
Abstract: We cross-correlate positions of galaxies measured in data from the first three years of the Dark Energy Survey with Compton-$y$-maps generated using data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and the {\it Planck} mission. We model this cross-correlation measurement together with the galaxy auto-correlation to constrain the distribution of gas in the Universe. We measure the hydrostatic mass bias or, equivalently, the mean halo bias-weighted electron pressure $\langle b_{h}P_{e}\rangle$, using large-scale information. We find $\langle b_{h}P_{e}\rangle$ to be $[0.16^{+0.03}_{-0.04},0.28^{+0.04}_{-0.05},0.45^{+0.06}_{-0.10},0.54^{+0.08}_{-0.07},0.61^{+0.08}_{-0.06},0.63^{+0.07}_{-0.08}]$ meV cm$^{-3}$ at redshifts $z \sim [0.30, 0.46, 0.62,0.77, 0.89, 0.97]$. These values are consistent with previous work where measurements exist in the redshift range. We also constrain the mean gas profile using small-scale information, enabled by the high-resolution of the SPT data. We compare our measurements to different parametrized profiles based on the cosmo-OWLS hydrodynamical simulations. We find that our data are consistent with the simulation that assumes an AGN heating temperature of $10^{8.5}$K but are incompatible with the model that assumes an AGN heating temperature of $10^{8.0}$K. These comparisons indicate that the data prefer a higher value of electron pressure than the simulations within $r_{500c}$ of the galaxies' halos., Comment: 20 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Published: 2022
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12. Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck III: Combined cosmological constraints

Author: Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Ansarinejad, B., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Baxter, E. J., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Blazek, J., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chang, C. L., Chen, R., Choi, A., Chown, R., Conselice, C., Cordero, J., Costanzi, M., Crawford, T., Crites, A. T., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N., Davis, C., Davis, T. M., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Everett, W., Fang, X., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Jeltema, T., Kent, S., Knox, L., Kovacs, A., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., Lidman, C., Luong-Van, D., McMahon, J. J., MacCrann, N., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., McCullough, J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Muir, J., Myles, J., Natoli, T., Navarro-Alsina, A., Nichol, R. C., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pereira, M. E. S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Prat, J., Pryke, C., Raveri, M., Reichardt, C. L., Rollins, R. P., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Sanchez, J., Schaffer, K. K., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Vieira, J. D., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Ansarinejad, B., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Baxter, E. J., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Blazek, J., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chang, C. L., Chen, R., Choi, A., Chown, R., Conselice, C., Cordero, J., Costanzi, M., Crawford, T., Crites, A. T., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N., Davis, C., Davis, T. M., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Everett, W., Fang, X., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Jeltema, T., Kent, S., Knox, L., Kovacs, A., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., Lidman, C., Luong-Van, D., McMahon, J. J., MacCrann, N., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., McCullough, J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Muir, J., Myles, J., Natoli, T., Navarro-Alsina, A., Nichol, R. C., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pereira, M. E. S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Prat, J., Pryke, C., Raveri, M., Reichardt, C. L., Rollins, R. P., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Sanchez, J., Schaffer, K. K., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Vieira, J. D., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., and Zuntz, J.
Abstract: We present cosmological constraints from the analysis of two-point correlation functions between galaxy positions and galaxy lensing measured in Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 data and measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck. When jointly analyzing the DES-only two-point functions and the DES cross-correlations with SPT+Planck CMB lensing, we find $\Omega_{\rm m} = 0.344\pm 0.030$ and $S_8 \equiv \sigma_8 (\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3)^{0.5} = 0.773\pm 0.016$, assuming $\Lambda$CDM. When additionally combining with measurements of the CMB lensing autospectrum, we find $\Omega_{\rm m} = 0.306^{+0.018}_{-0.021}$ and $S_8 = 0.792\pm 0.012$. The high signal-to-noise of the CMB lensing cross-correlations enables several powerful consistency tests of these results, including comparisons with constraints derived from cross-correlations only, and comparisons designed to test the robustness of the galaxy lensing and clustering measurements from DES. Applying these tests to our measurements, we find no evidence of significant biases in the baseline cosmological constraints from the DES-only analyses or from the joint analyses with CMB lensing cross-correlations. However, the CMB lensing cross-correlations suggest possible problems with the correlation function measurements using alternative lens galaxy samples, in particular the redMaGiC galaxies and high-redshift MagLim galaxies, consistent with the findings of previous studies. We use the CMB lensing cross-correlations to identify directions for further investigating these problems., Comment: 20 pages, 15 figures
Published: 2022
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13. Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck II: Cross-correlation measurements and cosmological constraints

Author: Chang, C., Omori, Y., Baxter, E. J., Doux, C., Choi, A., Pandey, S., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bianchini, F., Blazek, J., Bleem, L. E., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Cordero, J., Crawford, T. M., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jarvis, M., Kovacs, A., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Crites, A. T., Pereira, M. E. S., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lima, M., Luong-Van, D., March, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Rodríguez-Monroy, M., Romer, A. K., Ruhl, J. E., Sanchez, E., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Vieira, J. D., Weller, J., Williamson, R., Chang, C., Omori, Y., Baxter, E. J., Doux, C., Choi, A., Pandey, S., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bianchini, F., Blazek, J., Bleem, L. E., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Cordero, J., Crawford, T. M., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jarvis, M., Kovacs, A., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Crites, A. T., Pereira, M. E. S., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lima, M., Luong-Van, D., March, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Rodríguez-Monroy, M., Romer, A. K., Ruhl, J. E., Sanchez, E., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Vieira, J. D., Weller, J., and Williamson, R.
Abstract: Cross-correlations of galaxy positions and galaxy shears with maps of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are sensitive to the distribution of large-scale structure in the Universe. Such cross-correlations are also expected to be immune to some of the systematic effects that complicate correlation measurements internal to galaxy surveys. We present measurements and modeling of the cross-correlations between galaxy positions and galaxy lensing measured in the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey with CMB lensing maps derived from a combination of data from the 2500 deg$^2$ SPT-SZ survey conducted with the South Pole Telescope and full-sky data from the Planck satellite. The CMB lensing maps used in this analysis have been constructed in a way that minimizes biases from the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect, making them well suited for cross-correlation studies. The total signal-to-noise of the cross-correlation measurements is 23.9 (25.7) when using a choice of angular scales optimized for a linear (nonlinear) galaxy bias model. We use the cross-correlation measurements to obtain constraints on cosmological parameters. For our fiducial galaxy sample, which consist of four bins of magnitude-selected galaxies, we find constraints of $\Omega_{m} = 0.272^{+0.032}_{-0.052}$ and $S_{8} \equiv \sigma_8 \sqrt{\Omega_{m}/0.3}= 0.736^{+0.032}_{-0.028}$ ($\Omega_{m} = 0.245^{+0.026}_{-0.044}$ and $S_{8} = 0.734^{+0.035}_{-0.028}$) when assuming linear (nonlinear) galaxy bias in our modeling. Considering only the cross-correlation of galaxy shear with CMB lensing, we find $\Omega_{m} = 0.270^{+0.043}_{-0.061}$ and $S_{8} = 0.740^{+0.034}_{-0.029}$. Our constraints on $S_8$ are consistent with recent cosmic shear measurements, but lower than the values preferred by primary CMB measurements from Planck., Comment: 25 pages, 19 figures, submitted to PRD
Published: 2022
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14. Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck I: Construction of CMB Lensing Maps and Modeling Choices

Author: Omori, Y., Baxter, E. J., Chang, C., Friedrich, O., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Blazek, J., Bleem, L. E., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Crawford, T. M., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Crites, A. T., Pereira, M. E. S., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lima, M., Luong-Van, D., March, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Romer, A. K., Ruhl, J. E., Sanchez, E., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Vieira, J. D., Weller, J., Williamson, R., Omori, Y., Baxter, E. J., Chang, C., Friedrich, O., Alarcon, A., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Blazek, J., Bleem, L. E., Camacho, H., Campos, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Cawthon, R., Chen, R., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Crawford, T. M., Crocce, M., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Elsner, F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferté, A., Fosalba, P., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Harrison, I., Herner, K., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. -F., Lemos, P., Liddle, A. R., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Muir, J., Myles, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Raveri, M., Rollins, R. P., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, J., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Troxel, M. A., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Crites, A. T., Pereira, M. E. S., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lima, M., Luong-Van, D., March, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Romer, A. K., Ruhl, J. E., Sanchez, E., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Shirokoff, E., Smith, M., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Vieira, J. D., Weller, J., and Williamson, R.
Abstract: Joint analyses of cross-correlations between measurements of galaxy positions, galaxy lensing, and lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) offer powerful constraints on the large-scale structure of the Universe. In a forthcoming analysis, we will present cosmological constraints from the analysis of such cross-correlations measured using Year 3 data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), and CMB data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck. Here we present two key ingredients of this analysis: (1) an improved CMB lensing map in the SPT-SZ survey footprint, and (2) the analysis methodology that will be used to extract cosmological information from the cross-correlation measurements. Relative to previous lensing maps made from the same CMB observations, we have implemented techniques to remove contamination from the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect, enabling the extraction of cosmological information from smaller angular scales of the cross-correlation measurements than in previous analyses with DES Year 1 data. We describe our model for the cross-correlations between these maps and DES data, and validate our modeling choices to demonstrate the robustness of our analysis. We then forecast the expected cosmological constraints from the galaxy survey-CMB lensing auto and cross-correlations. We find that the galaxy-CMB lensing and galaxy shear-CMB lensing correlations will on their own provide a constraint on $S_8=\sigma_8 \sqrt{\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3}$ at the few percent level, providing a powerful consistency check for the DES-only constraints. We explore scenarios where external priors on shear calibration are removed, finding that the joint analysis of CMB lensing cross-correlations can provide constraints on the shear calibration amplitude at the 5 to 10% level., Comment: 30 pages, 20 figures, To be submitted to PRD
Published: 2022
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15. Asteroid Measurements at Millimeter Wavelengths with the South Pole Telescope

Author: Chichura, P. M., Foster, A., Patel, C., Ossa-Jaen, N., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Anderson, A. J., Archipley, M., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Balkenhol, L., Barry, P. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Beall, J. A., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Byrum, K., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chen, G., Chiang, H. C., Cho, H. -M., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Cliche, J. -F., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Cukierman, A., Daley, C. M., Denison, E. V., Dibert, K., Ding, J., Dobbs, M. A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fu, J., Galli, S., Gallicchio, J., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., George, E. M., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Guyser, R., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Howe, D., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O. B., Jonas, M., Jones, A., Khaire, T. S., Knox, L., Kofman, A. M., Korman, M., Kubik, D. L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Lu, C., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Michalik, D., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Patil, S., Pearson, J., Phadke, K. A., Posada, C. M., Prabhu, K., Pryke, C., Quan, W., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Riebel, D., Riedel, B., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Schiappucci, E., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Springmann, A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Story, K. T., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vale, L. R., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., Young, M. R., Chichura, P. M., Foster, A., Patel, C., Ossa-Jaen, N., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Anderson, A. J., Archipley, M., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Balkenhol, L., Barry, P. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Beall, J. A., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Byrum, K., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chen, G., Chiang, H. C., Cho, H. -M., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Cliche, J. -F., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Cukierman, A., Daley, C. M., Denison, E. V., Dibert, K., Ding, J., Dobbs, M. A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fu, J., Galli, S., Gallicchio, J., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., George, E. M., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Guyser, R., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Howe, D., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O. B., Jonas, M., Jones, A., Khaire, T. S., Knox, L., Kofman, A. M., Korman, M., Kubik, D. L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Lu, C., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Michalik, D., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Patil, S., Pearson, J., Phadke, K. A., Posada, C. M., Prabhu, K., Pryke, C., Quan, W., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Riebel, D., Riedel, B., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Schiappucci, E., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Springmann, A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Story, K. T., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vale, L. R., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., and Young, M. R.
Abstract: We present the first measurements of asteroids in millimeter wavelength (mm) data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT), which is used primarily to study the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We analyze maps of two $\sim270$ deg$^2$ sky regions near the ecliptic plane, each observed with the SPTpol camera $\sim100$ times over one month. We subtract the mean of all maps of a given field, removing static sky signal, and then average the mean-subtracted maps at known asteroid locations. We detect three asteroids$\text{ -- }$(324) Bamberga, (13) Egeria, and (22) Kalliope$\text{ -- }$with signal-to-noise ratios (S/N) of 11.2, 10.4, and 6.1, respectively, at 2.0 mm (150 GHz); we also detect (324) Bamberga with S/N of 4.1 at 3.2 mm (95 GHz). We place constraints on these asteroids' effective emissivities, brightness temperatures, and light curve modulation amplitude. Our flux density measurements of (324) Bamberga and (13) Egeria roughly agree with predictions, while our measurements of (22) Kalliope suggest lower flux, corresponding to effective emissivities of $0.66 \pm 0.11$ at 2.0 mm and $<0.47$ at 3.2mm. We predict the asteroids detectable in other SPT datasets and find good agreement with detections of (772) Tanete and (1093) Freda in recent data from the SPT-3G camera, which has $\sim10 \times$ the mapping speed of SPTpol. This work is the first focused analysis of asteroids in data from CMB surveys, and it demonstrates we can repurpose historic and future datasets for asteroid studies. Future SPT measurements can help constrain the distribution of surface properties over a larger asteroid population., Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2022
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16. Improving cosmological constraints from galaxy cluster number counts with CMB-cluster-lensing data: Results from the SPT-SZ survey and forecasts for the future

Author: Chaubal, P. S., Reichardt, C. L., Gupta, N., Ansarinejad, B., Aylor, K., Balkenhol, L., Baxter, E. J., Bianchini, F., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., Floyd, B., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Ruppin, F., Salvati, L., Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., Chaubal, P. S., Reichardt, C. L., Gupta, N., Ansarinejad, B., Aylor, K., Balkenhol, L., Baxter, E. J., Bianchini, F., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., Floyd, B., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Ruppin, F., Salvati, L., Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., and Williamson, R.
Abstract: We show the improvement to cosmological constraints from galaxy cluster surveys with the addition of CMB-cluster lensing data. We explore the cosmological implications of adding mass information from the 3.1$\sigma$ detection of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by galaxy clusters to the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy cluster sample from the 2500 deg$^2$ SPT-SZ survey and targeted optical and X-ray followup data. In the $\Lambda$CDM model, the combination of the cluster sample with the Planck power spectrum measurements prefers $\sigma_8 \left(\Omega_m/0.3 \right)^{0.5} = 0.831 \pm 0.020$. Adding the cluster data reduces the uncertainty on this quantity by a factor of 1.4, which is unchanged whether or not the 3.1$\sigma$ CMB-cluster lensing measurement is included. We then forecast the impact of CMB-cluster lensing measurements with future cluster catalogs. Adding CMB-cluster lensing measurements to the SZ cluster catalog of the on-going SPT-3G survey is expected to improve the expected constraint on the dark energy equation of state $w$ by a factor of 1.3 to $\sigma(w) = 0.19$. We find the largest improvements from CMB-cluster lensing measurements to be for $\sigma_8$, where adding CMB-cluster lensing data to the cluster number counts reduces the expected uncertainty on $\sigma_8$ by factors of 2.4 and 3.6 for SPT-3G and CMB-S4 respectively., Comment: Comments are welcome
Published: 2021

17. Shocks in the Stacked Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Profiles of Clusters II: Measurements from SPT-SZ + Planck Compton-y Map

Author: Anbajagane, D., Chang, C., Jain, B., Adhikari, S., Baxter, E. J., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Calzadilla, M. S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Cui, W., de Haan, T., Di Mascolo, L., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Grandis, S., Halverson, N. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., McDonald, M. A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszweski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., Anbajagane, D., Chang, C., Jain, B., Adhikari, S., Baxter, E. J., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Calzadilla, M. S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Cui, W., de Haan, T., Di Mascolo, L., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Grandis, S., Halverson, N. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., McDonald, M. A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszweski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., and Williamson, R.
Abstract: We search for the signature of shocks in stacked gas pressure profiles of galaxy clusters using data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). Specifically, we stack the recently released Compton-y maps from the 2500 deg^2 SPT-SZ survey on the locations of clusters identified in that same dataset. The sample contains 516 clusters with mean mass = 1e14.9 msol and redshift = 0.55. We analyze in parallel a set of zoom-in hydrodynamical simulations from The Three Hundred project. The SPT-SZ data show two features: (i) a pressure deficit at R/R200m = $1.08 \pm 0.09$, measured at $3.1\sigma$ significance and not observed in the simulations, and; (ii) a sharp decrease in pressure at R/R200m = $4.58 \pm 1.24$ at $2.0\sigma$ significance. The pressure deficit is qualitatively consistent with a shock-induced thermal non-equilibrium between electrons and ions, and the second feature is consistent with accretion shocks seen in previous studies. We split the cluster sample by redshift and mass, and find both features exist in all cases. There are also no significant differences in features along and across the cluster major axis, whose orientation roughly points towards filamentary structure. As a consistency test, we also analyze clusters from the Planck and Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter surveys and find quantitatively similar features in the pressure profiles. Finally, we compare the accretion shock radius (Rsh_acc) with existing measurements of the splashback radius (Rsp) for SPT-SZ and constrain the lower limit of the ratio, Rsh_acc/Rsp > $2.16 \pm 0.59$., Comment: 8 Figures, 16 Pages in Main text
Published: 2021

18. Combining Planck and SPT cluster catalogs: cosmological analysis and impact on Planck scaling relation calibration

Author: Salvati, L., Saro, A., Bocquet, S., Costanzi, M., Ansarinejad, B., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Calzadilla, M. S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Crites, A. T., deHaan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., Floyd, B., Grandis, S., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Ruppin, F., Schaffer, K. K., Schrabback, T., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., Salvati, L., Saro, A., Bocquet, S., Costanzi, M., Ansarinejad, B., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Calzadilla, M. S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Crites, A. T., deHaan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., Floyd, B., Grandis, S., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Ruppin, F., Schaffer, K. K., Schrabback, T., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., and Williamson, R.
Abstract: We provide the first combined cosmological analysis of South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck cluster catalogs. The aim is to provide an independent calibration for Planck scaling relations, exploiting the cosmological constraining power of the SPT-SZ cluster catalog and its dedicated weak lensing (WL) and X-ray follow-up observations. We build a new version of the Planck cluster likelihood. In the $\nu \Lambda$CDM scenario, focusing on the mass slope and mass bias of Planck scaling relations, we find $\alpha_{\text{SZ}} = 1.49 _{-0.10}^{+0.07}$ and $(1-b)_{\text{SZ}} = 0.69 _{-0.14}^{+0.07}$ respectively. The results for the mass slope show a $\sim 4 \, \sigma$ departure from the self-similar evolution, $\alpha_{\text{SZ}} \sim 1.8$. This shift is mainly driven by the matter density value preferred by SPT data, $\Omega_m = 0.30 \pm 0.03$, lower than the one obtained by Planck data alone, $\Omega_m = 0.37 _{-0.06}^{+0.02}$. The mass bias constraints are consistent both with outcomes of hydrodynamical simulations and external WL calibrations, $(1-b) \sim 0.8$, and with results required by the Planck cosmic microwave background cosmology, $(1-b) \sim 0.6$. From this analysis, we obtain a new catalog of Planck cluster masses $M_{500}$. We estimate the relation between the published Planck derived $M_{\text{SZ}}$ masses and our derived masses, as a measured mass bias. We analyse the mass, redshift and detection noise dependence of this quantity, finding an increasing trend towards high redshift and low mass. These results mimic the effect of departure from self-similarity in cluster evolution, showing different dependencies for the low-mass high-mass, low-z high-z regimes., Comment: 23 pages, 10 figures, the catalogs can be found at http://pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/sptplanck_cluster
Published: 2021

19. Combining Planck and SPT cluster catalogs: cosmological analysis and impact on Planck scaling relation calibration

Author: Salvati, L., Saro, A., Bocquet, S., Costanzi, M., Ansarinejad, B., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Calzadilla, M. S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Crites, A. T., deHaan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., Floyd, B., Grandis, S., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Ruppin, F., Schaffer, K. K., Schrabback, T., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., Salvati, L., Saro, A., Bocquet, S., Costanzi, M., Ansarinejad, B., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Calzadilla, M. S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Crites, A. T., deHaan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., Floyd, B., Grandis, S., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Ruppin, F., Schaffer, K. K., Schrabback, T., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., and Williamson, R.
Abstract: We provide the first combined cosmological analysis of South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck cluster catalogs. The aim is to provide an independent calibration for Planck scaling relations, exploiting the cosmological constraining power of the SPT-SZ cluster catalog and its dedicated weak lensing (WL) and X-ray follow-up observations. We build a new version of the Planck cluster likelihood. In the $\nu \Lambda$CDM scenario, focusing on the mass slope and mass bias of Planck scaling relations, we find $\alpha_{\text{SZ}} = 1.49_{-0.10}^{+0.07}$ and $(1-b)_{\text{SZ}} = 0.69_{-0.14}^{+0.07}$ respectively. The results for the mass slope show a $\sim 4 \, \sigma$ departure from the self-similar evolution, $\alpha_{\text{SZ}} \sim 1.8$. This shift is mainly driven by the matter density value preferred by SPT data, $\Omega_m = 0.30 \pm 0.03$, lower than the one obtained by Planck data alone, $\Omega_m = 0.37_{-0.06}^{+0.02}$. The mass bias constraints are consistent both with outcomes of hydrodynamical simulations and external WL calibrations, $(1-b) \sim 0.8$, and with results required by the Planck cosmic microwave background cosmology, $(1-b) \sim 0.6$. From this analysis, we obtain a new catalog of Planck cluster masses $M_{500}$. We estimate the ratio between the published Planck $M_{\text{SZ}}$ masses and our derived masses $M_{500}$, as a "measured mass bias", $(1-b)_M$. We analyse the mass, redshift and detection noise dependence of $(1-b)_M$, finding an increasing trend towards high redshift and low mass. These results mimic the effect of departure from self-similarity in cluster evolution, showing different dependencies for the low-mass high-mass, low-z high-z regimes., Comment: 22 pages, 10 figures, the catalogs can be found at http://pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/sptplanck_cluster
Published: 2021
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20. Shocks in the Stacked Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Profiles of Clusters II: Measurements from SPT-SZ + Planck Compton-y Map

Author: Anbajagane, D., Chang, C., Jain, B., Adhikari, S., Baxter, E. J., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Calzadilla, M. S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Cui, W., de Haan, T., Di Mascolo, L., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Grandis, S., Halverson, N. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., McDonald, M. A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszweski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., Anbajagane, D., Chang, C., Jain, B., Adhikari, S., Baxter, E. J., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Calzadilla, M. S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Cui, W., de Haan, T., Di Mascolo, L., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Grandis, S., Halverson, N. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., McDonald, M. A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszweski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., and Williamson, R.
Abstract: We search for the signature of cosmological shocks in stacked gas pressure profiles of galaxy clusters using data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). Specifically, we stack the latest Compton-y maps from the 2500 deg^2 SPT-SZ survey on the locations of clusters identified in that same dataset. The sample contains 516 clusters with mean mass = 1e14.9 msol and redshift = 0.55. We analyze in parallel a set of zoom-in hydrodynamical simulations from The Three Hundred project. The SPT-SZ data show two features: (i) a pressure deficit at R/R200m = $1.08 \pm 0.09$, measured at $3.1\sigma$ significance and not observed in the simulations, and; (ii) a sharp decrease in pressure at R/R200m = $4.58 \pm 1.24$ at $2.0\sigma$ significance. The pressure deficit is qualitatively consistent with a shock-induced thermal non-equilibrium between electrons and ions, and the second feature is consistent with accretion shocks seen in previous studies. We split the cluster sample by redshift and mass, and find both features exist in all cases. There are also no significant differences in features along and across the cluster major axis, whose orientation roughly points towards filamentary structure. As a consistency test, we also analyze clusters from the Planck and Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter surveys and find quantitatively similar features in the pressure profiles. Finally, we compare the accretion shock radius (Rsh_acc) with existing measurements of the splashback radius (Rsp) for SPT-SZ and constrain the lower limit of the ratio, Rsh_acc/Rsp > $2.16 \pm 0.59$., Comment: [v1]: 8 Figures, 16 Pages in Main text. [v2]: Added text to discussion. Version accepted in MNRAS
Published: 2021
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21. Improving cosmological constraints from galaxy cluster number counts with CMB-cluster-lensing data: Results from the SPT-SZ survey and forecasts for the future

Author: Chaubal, P. S., Reichardt, C. L., Gupta, N., Ansarinejad, B., Aylor, K., Balkenhol, L., Baxter, E. J., Bianchini, F., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., Floyd, B., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Ruppin, F., Salvati, L., Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., Chaubal, P. S., Reichardt, C. L., Gupta, N., Ansarinejad, B., Aylor, K., Balkenhol, L., Baxter, E. J., Bianchini, F., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., Floyd, B., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Ruppin, F., Salvati, L., Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., and Williamson, R.
Abstract: We show the improvement to cosmological constraints from galaxy cluster surveys with the addition of CMB-cluster lensing data. We explore the cosmological implications of adding mass information from the 3.1$\sigma$ detection of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by galaxy clusters to the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy cluster sample from the 2500 deg$^2$ SPT-SZ survey and targeted optical and X-ray followup data. In the $\Lambda$CDM model, the combination of the cluster sample with the Planck power spectrum measurements prefers $\sigma_8 \left(\Omega_m/0.3 \right)^{0.5} = 0.831 \pm 0.020$. Adding the cluster data reduces the uncertainty on this quantity by a factor of 1.4, which is unchanged whether or not the 3.1$\sigma$ CMB-cluster lensing measurement is included. We then forecast the impact of CMB-cluster lensing measurements with future cluster catalogs. Adding CMB-cluster lensing measurements to the SZ cluster catalog of the on-going SPT-3G survey is expected to improve the expected constraint on the dark energy equation of state $w$ by a factor of 1.3 to $\sigma(w) = 0.19$. We find the largest improvements from CMB-cluster lensing measurements to be for $\sigma_8$, where adding CMB-cluster lensing data to the cluster number counts reduces the expected uncertainty on $\sigma_8$ by factors of 2.4 and 3.6 for SPT-3G and CMB-S4 respectively., Comment: Comments are welcome
Published: 2021
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22. CMB/kSZ and Compton-$y$ Maps from 2500 square degrees of SPT-SZ and Planck Survey Data

Author: Bleem, L. E., Crawford, T. M., Ansarinejad, B., Benson, B. A., Bocquet, S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Gualtieri, R., Halverson, N. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Raghunathan, S., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., Bleem, L. E., Crawford, T. M., Ansarinejad, B., Benson, B. A., Bocquet, S., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chown, R., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Gualtieri, R., Halverson, N. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Raghunathan, S., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vieira, J. D., and Williamson, R.
Abstract: We present component-separated maps of the primary cosmic microwave background/kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) amplitude and the thermal SZ Compton-$y$ parameter, created using data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and the Planck satellite. These maps, which cover the $\sim$2500 square degrees of the Southern sky imaged by the SPT-SZ survey, represent a significant improvement over previous such products available in this region by virtue of their higher angular resolution (1.25 arcminutes for our highest resolution Compton-$y$ maps) and lower noise at small angular scales. In this work we detail the construction of these maps using linear combination techniques, including our method for limiting the correlation of our lowest-noise Compton-$y$ map products with the cosmic infrared background. We perform a range of validation tests on these data products to test our sky modeling and combination algorithms, and we find good performance in all of these tests. Recognizing the potential utility of these data products for a wide range of astrophysical and cosmological analyses, including studies of the gas properties of galaxies, groups, and clusters, we make these products publicly available at http://pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/sptsz_ymap and on the NASA/LAMBDA website., Comment: Minor changes to match version accepted in ApJS
Published: 2021
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23. Searching for Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence with Polarization Data from SPTpol

Author: Bianchini, F., Wu, W. L. K., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Balkenhol, L., Baxter, E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T. L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Yefremenko, V., Bianchini, F., Wu, W. L. K., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Balkenhol, L., Baxter, E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T. L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We present a search for anisotropic cosmic birefringence in 500 deg$^2$ of southern sky observed at 150 GHz with the SPTpol camera on the South Pole Telescope. We reconstruct a map of cosmic polarization rotation anisotropies using higher-order correlations between the observed cosmic microwave background (CMB) $E$ and $B$ fields. We then measure the angular power spectrum of this map, which is found to be consistent with zero. The non-detection is translated into an upper limit on the amplitude of the scale-invariant cosmic rotation power spectrum, $L(L+1)C_L^{\alpha\alpha}/2\pi < 0.10 \times 10^{-4}$ rad$^2$ (0.033 deg$^2$, 95% C.L.). This upper limit can be used to place constraints on the strength of primordial magnetic fields, $B_{1 \rm Mpc} < 17 {\rm nG} $ (95% C.L.), and on the coupling constant of the Chern-Simons electromagnetic term $g_{a\gamma} < 4.0 \times 10^{-2}/H_I $ (95% C.L.), where $H_I$ is the inflationary Hubble scale. For the first time, we also cross-correlate the CMB temperature fluctuations with the reconstructed rotation angle map, a signal expected to be non-vanishing in certain theoretical scenarios, and find no detectable signal. We perform a suite of systematics and consistency checks and find no evidence for contamination., Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures - new subsection on non-Gaussian foregrounds, conclusions unchanged - updated to match published version on PRD
Published: 2020
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24. Millimeter-wave Point Sources from the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ Survey: Catalog and Population Statistics

Author: Everett, W. B., Zhang, L., Crawford, T. M., Vieira, J. D., Aravena, M., Archipley, M. A., Austermann, J. E., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chapman, S., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Mangian, A. C., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Reuter, C. A., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Spilker, J. S., Stalder, B., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Switzer, E. R., Vanderlinde, K., Weiss, A., Williamson, R., Everett, W. B., Zhang, L., Crawford, T. M., Vieira, J. D., Aravena, M., Archipley, M. A., Austermann, J. E., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chapman, S., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Mangian, A. C., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Reuter, C. A., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Spilker, J. S., Stalder, B., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Switzer, E. R., Vanderlinde, K., Weiss, A., and Williamson, R.
Abstract: We present a catalog of emissive point sources detected in the SPT-SZ survey, a contiguous 2530-square-degree area surveyed with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) from 2008 - 2011 in three bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz. The catalog contains 4845 sources measured at a significance of 4.5 sigma or greater in at least one band, corresponding to detections above approximately 9.8, 5.8, and 20.4 mJy in 95, 150, and 220 GHz, respectively. Spectral behavior in the SPT bands is used for source classification into two populations based on the underlying physical mechanisms of compact, emissive sources that are bright at millimeter wavelengths: synchrotron radiation from active galactic nuclei and thermal emission from dust. The latter population includes a component of high-redshift sources often referred to as submillimeter galaxies (SMGs). In the relatively bright flux ranges probed by the survey, these sources are expected to be magnified by strong gravitational lensing. The survey also contains sources consistent with protoclusters, groups of dusty galaxies at high redshift undergoing collapse. We cross-match the SPT-SZ catalog with external catalogs at radio, infrared, and X-ray wavelengths and identify available redshift information. The catalog splits into 3980 synchrotron-dominated and 865 dust-dominated sources and we determine a list of 506 SMGs. Ten sources in the catalog are identified as stars. We calculate number counts for the full catalog, and synchrotron and dusty components, using a bootstrap method and compare our measured counts with models. This paper represents the third and final catalog of point sources in the SPT-SZ survey., Comment: 43 pages, 19 figures, 7 tables. Submitted to AAS Journals 03/05/2020. 03/23/2020 co-author affiliation and acknowledgments updated
Published: 2020
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25. An Improved Measurement of the Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies from the SPT-SZ + SPTpol Surveys

Author: Reichardt, C. L., Patil, S., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Baxter, E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T. L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Luong-Van, D., McMahon, J. J., Mehl, J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Spieler, H. G., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Reichardt, C. L., Patil, S., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Baxter, E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T. L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Luong-Van, D., McMahon, J. J., Mehl, J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Spieler, H. G., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We report new measurements of millimeter-wave power spectra in the angular multipole range $2000 \le \ell \le 11,000$ (angular scales $5^\prime \gtrsim \theta \gtrsim 1^\prime$). By adding 95 and 150\,GHz data from the low-noise 500 deg$^2$ SPTpol survey to the SPT-SZ three-frequency 2540 deg$^2$ survey, we substantially reduce the uncertainties in these bands. These power spectra include contributions from the primary cosmic microwave background, cosmic infrared background, radio galaxies, and thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects. The data favor a thermal SZ (tSZ) power at 143\,GHz of $D^{\rm tSZ}_{3000} = 3.42 \pm 0.54~ \mu {\rm K}^2$ and a kinematic SZ (kSZ) power of $D^{\rm kSZ}_{3000} = 3.0 \pm 1.0~ \mu {\rm K}^2$. This is the first measurement of kSZ power at $\ge 3\,\sigma$. We study the implications of the measured kSZ power for the epoch of reionization, finding the duration of reionization to be $\Delta z_{re} = 1.0^{+1.6}_{-0.7}$ ($\Delta z_{re}< 4.1$ at 95% confidence), when combined with our previously published tSZ bispectrum measurement., Comment: Submitted to ApJ, 16 pages. (revised portions of the introduction and description of bandpower estimation)
Published: 2020
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26. Searching for Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence with Polarization Data from SPTpol

Author: Bianchini, F., Wu, W. L. K., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Balkenhol, L., Baxter, E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T. L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Yefremenko, V., Bianchini, F., Wu, W. L. K., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Balkenhol, L., Baxter, E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T. L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We present a search for anisotropic cosmic birefringence in 500 deg$^2$ of southern sky observed at 150 GHz with the SPTpol camera on the South Pole Telescope. We reconstruct a map of cosmic polarization rotation anisotropies using higher-order correlations between the observed cosmic microwave background (CMB) $E$ and $B$ fields. We then measure the angular power spectrum of this map, which is found to be consistent with zero. The non-detection is translated into an upper limit on the amplitude of the scale-invariant cosmic rotation power spectrum, $L(L+1)C_L^{\alpha\alpha}/2\pi < 0.10 \times 10^{-4}$ rad$^2$ (0.033 deg$^2$, 95% C.L.). This upper limit can be used to place constraints on the strength of primordial magnetic fields, $B_{1 \rm Mpc} < 17 {\rm nG} $ (95% C.L.), and on the coupling constant of the Chern-Simons electromagnetic term $g_{a\gamma} < 4.0 \times 10^{-2}/H_I $ (95% C.L.), where $H_I$ is the inflationary Hubble scale. For the first time, we also cross-correlate the CMB temperature fluctuations with the reconstructed rotation angle map, a signal expected to be non-vanishing in certain theoretical scenarios, and find no detectable signal. We perform a suite of systematics and consistency checks and find no evidence for contamination., Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures - new subsection on non-Gaussian foregrounds, conclusions unchanged - updated to match published version on PRD
Published: 2020
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27. Optimal CMB Lensing Reconstruction and Parameter Estimation with SPTpol Data

Author: Millea, M., Daley, C. M., Chou, T-L., Anderes, E., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Goeckner-Wald, N., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Millea, M., Daley, C. M., Chou, T-L., Anderes, E., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Goeckner-Wald, N., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We perform the first simultaneous Bayesian parameter inference and optimal reconstruction of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using 100 deg$^2$ of polarization observations from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. These data reach noise levels as low as 5.8 $\mu$K-arcmin in polarization, which are low enough that the typically used quadratic estimator (QE) technique for analyzing CMB lensing is significantly sub-optimal. Conversely, the Bayesian procedure extracts all lensing information from the data and is optimal at any noise level. We infer the amplitude of the gravitational lensing potential to be $A_\phi\,{=}\,0.949\,{\pm}\,0.122$ using the Bayesian pipeline, consistent with our QE pipeline result, but with 17\% smaller error bars. The Bayesian analysis also provides a simple way to account for systematic uncertainties, performing a similar job as frequentist "bias hardening," and reducing the systematic uncertainty on $A_\phi$ due to polarization calibration from almost half of the statistical error to effectively zero. Finally, we jointly constrain $A_\phi$ along with $A_{\rm L}$, the amplitude of lensing-like effects on the CMB power spectra, demonstrating that the Bayesian method can be used to easily infer parameters both from an optimal lensing reconstruction and from the delensed CMB, while exactly accounting for the correlation between the two. These results demonstrate the feasibility of the Bayesian approach on real data, and pave the way for future analysis of deep CMB polarization measurements with SPT-3G, Simons Observatory, and CMB-S4, where improvements relative to the QE can reach 1.5 times tighter constraints on $A_\phi$ and 7 times lower effective lensing reconstruction noise., Comment: 27 pages, 14 figures, accompanying software package available at https://cosmicmar.com/CMBLensing.jl
Published: 2020
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28. A Demonstration of Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves with Delensing

Author: BICEP/Keck, Collaborations, SPTpol, Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Amiri, M., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Barkats, D., Thakur, R. Basu, Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bischoff, C. A., Bleem, L. E., Bock, J. J., Boenish, H., Bullock, E., Buza, V., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cheshire IV, J. R., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Connors, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Cornelison, J., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Crumrine, M., Cukierman, A., de Haan, T., Dierickx, M., Dobbs, M. A., Duband, L., Everett, W., Fatigoni, S., Filippini, J. P., Fliescher, S., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Germaine, T. St., Goeckner-Wald, N., Goldfinger, D. C., Grayson, J., Gupta, N., Hall, G., Halpern, M., Halverson, N. W., Harrison, S., Henderson, S., Henning, J. W., Hildebrandt, S. R., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Hui, H., Irwin, K. D., Kang, J., Karkare, K. S., Karpel, E., Kefeli, S., Kernasovskiy, S. A., Knox, L., Kovac, J. M., Kuo, C. L., Lau, K., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Megerian, K. G., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Moncelsi, L., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Namikawa, T., Natoli, T., Netterfield, C. B., Nguyen, H. T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., O'Brient, R., Ogburn IV, R. W., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Palladino, S., Patil, S., Prouve, T., Pryke, C., Racine, B., Reichardt, C. L., Reintsema, C. D., Richter, S., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Schillaci, A., Schmitt, B. L., Schwarz, R., Sheehy, C. D., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Soliman, A., Stark, A. A., Steinbach, B., Sudiwala, R. V., Teply, G. P., Thompson, K. L., Tolan, J. E., Tucker, C., Turner, A. D., Umiltà, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Vieregg, A. G., Wandui, A., Wang, G., Weber, A. C., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, D. V., Willmert, J., Wong, C. L., Wu, W. L. K., Yang, H., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., Young, E., Yu, C., Zeng, L., Zhang, C., BICEP/Keck, Collaborations, SPTpol, Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Amiri, M., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Barkats, D., Thakur, R. Basu, Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bischoff, C. A., Bleem, L. E., Bock, J. J., Boenish, H., Bullock, E., Buza, V., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cheshire IV, J. R., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Connors, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Cornelison, J., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Crumrine, M., Cukierman, A., de Haan, T., Dierickx, M., Dobbs, M. A., Duband, L., Everett, W., Fatigoni, S., Filippini, J. P., Fliescher, S., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Germaine, T. St., Goeckner-Wald, N., Goldfinger, D. C., Grayson, J., Gupta, N., Hall, G., Halpern, M., Halverson, N. W., Harrison, S., Henderson, S., Henning, J. W., Hildebrandt, S. R., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Hui, H., Irwin, K. D., Kang, J., Karkare, K. S., Karpel, E., Kefeli, S., Kernasovskiy, S. A., Knox, L., Kovac, J. M., Kuo, C. L., Lau, K., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Megerian, K. G., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Moncelsi, L., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Namikawa, T., Natoli, T., Netterfield, C. B., Nguyen, H. T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., O'Brient, R., Ogburn IV, R. W., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Palladino, S., Patil, S., Prouve, T., Pryke, C., Racine, B., Reichardt, C. L., Reintsema, C. D., Richter, S., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Schillaci, A., Schmitt, B. L., Schwarz, R., Sheehy, C. D., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Soliman, A., Stark, A. A., Steinbach, B., Sudiwala, R. V., Teply, G. P., Thompson, K. L., Tolan, J. E., Tucker, C., Turner, A. D., Umiltà, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Vieregg, A. G., Wandui, A., Wang, G., Weber, A. C., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, D. V., Willmert, J., Wong, C. L., Wu, W. L. K., Yang, H., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., Young, E., Yu, C., Zeng, L., and Zhang, C.
Abstract: We present a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, derived from measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization $B$-modes with "delensing," whereby the uncertainty on $r$ contributed by the sample variance of the gravitational lensing $B$-modes is reduced by cross-correlating against a lensing $B$-mode template. This template is constructed by combining an estimate of the polarized CMB with a tracer of the projected large-scale structure. The large-scale-structure tracer used is a map of the cosmic infrared background derived from Planck satellite data, while the polarized CMB map comes from a combination of South Pole Telescope, BICEP/Keck, and Planck data. We expand the BICEP/Keck likelihood analysis framework to accept a lensing template and apply it to the BICEP/Keck data set collected through 2014 using the same parametric foreground modelling as in the previous analysis. From simulations, we find that the uncertainty on $r$ is reduced by $\sim10\%$, from $\sigma(r)$= 0.024 to 0.022, which can be compared with a $\sim26\%$ reduction obtained when using a perfect lensing template. Applying the technique to the real data, the constraint on $r$ is improved from $r_{0.05} < 0.090$ to $r_{0.05} < 0.082$ (95\% C.L.). This is the first demonstration of improvement in an $r$ constraint through delensing., Comment: 23 pages, 11 figures; match published version
Published: 2020
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29. Searching for Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence with Polarization Data from SPTpol

Author: Bianchini, F., Wu, W. L. K., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Balkenhol, L., Baxter, E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T. L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Yefremenko, V., Bianchini, F., Wu, W. L. K., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Balkenhol, L., Baxter, E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T. L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We present a search for anisotropic cosmic birefringence in 500 deg$^2$ of southern sky observed at 150 GHz with the SPTpol camera on the South Pole Telescope. We reconstruct a map of cosmic polarization rotation anisotropies using higher-order correlations between the observed cosmic microwave background (CMB) $E$ and $B$ fields. We then measure the angular power spectrum of this map, which is found to be consistent with zero. The non-detection is translated into an upper limit on the amplitude of the scale-invariant cosmic rotation power spectrum, $L(L+1)C_L^{\alpha\alpha}/2\pi < 0.10 \times 10^{-4}$ rad$^2$ (0.033 deg$^2$, 95% C.L.). This upper limit can be used to place constraints on the strength of primordial magnetic fields, $B_{1 \rm Mpc} < 17 {\rm nG} $ (95% C.L.), and on the coupling constant of the Chern-Simons electromagnetic term $g_{a\gamma} < 4.0 \times 10^{-2}/H_I $ (95% C.L.), where $H_I$ is the inflationary Hubble scale. For the first time, we also cross-correlate the CMB temperature fluctuations with the reconstructed rotation angle map, a signal expected to be non-vanishing in certain theoretical scenarios, and find no detectable signal. We perform a suite of systematics and consistency checks and find no evidence for contamination., Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures - new subsection on non-Gaussian foregrounds, conclusions unchanged - updated to match published version on PRD
Published: 2020
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30. Millimeter-wave Point Sources from the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ Survey: Catalog and Population Statistics

Author: Everett, W. B., Zhang, L., Crawford, T. M., Vieira, J. D., Aravena, M., Archipley, M. A., Austermann, J. E., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chapman, S., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Mangian, A. C., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Reuter, C. A., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Spilker, J. S., Stalder, B., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Switzer, E. R., Vanderlinde, K., Weiss, A., Williamson, R., Everett, W. B., Zhang, L., Crawford, T. M., Vieira, J. D., Aravena, M., Archipley, M. A., Austermann, J. E., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chapman, S., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Mangian, A. C., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Reuter, C. A., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Spilker, J. S., Stalder, B., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Switzer, E. R., Vanderlinde, K., Weiss, A., and Williamson, R.
Abstract: We present a catalog of emissive point sources detected in the SPT-SZ survey, a contiguous 2530-square-degree area surveyed with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) from 2008 - 2011 in three bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz. The catalog contains 4845 sources measured at a significance of 4.5 sigma or greater in at least one band, corresponding to detections above approximately 9.8, 5.8, and 20.4 mJy in 95, 150, and 220 GHz, respectively. Spectral behavior in the SPT bands is used for source classification into two populations based on the underlying physical mechanisms of compact, emissive sources that are bright at millimeter wavelengths: synchrotron radiation from active galactic nuclei and thermal emission from dust. The latter population includes a component of high-redshift sources often referred to as submillimeter galaxies (SMGs). In the relatively bright flux ranges probed by the survey, these sources are expected to be magnified by strong gravitational lensing. The survey also contains sources consistent with protoclusters, groups of dusty galaxies at high redshift undergoing collapse. We cross-match the SPT-SZ catalog with external catalogs at radio, infrared, and X-ray wavelengths and identify available redshift information. The catalog splits into 3980 synchrotron-dominated and 865 dust-dominated sources and we determine a list of 506 SMGs. Ten sources in the catalog are identified as stars. We calculate number counts for the full catalog, and synchrotron and dusty components, using a bootstrap method and compare our measured counts with models. This paper represents the third and final catalog of point sources in the SPT-SZ survey., Comment: 43 pages, 19 figures, 7 tables. Submitted to AAS Journals 03/05/2020. 03/23/2020 co-author affiliation and acknowledgments updated
Published: 2020
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31. An Improved Measurement of the Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies from the SPT-SZ + SPTpol Surveys

Author: Reichardt, C. L., Patil, S., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Baxter, E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T. L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Luong-Van, D., McMahon, J. J., Mehl, J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Spieler, H. G., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Reichardt, C. L., Patil, S., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Baxter, E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T. L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Luong-Van, D., McMahon, J. J., Mehl, J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Spieler, H. G., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We report new measurements of millimeter-wave power spectra in the angular multipole range $2000 \le \ell \le 11,000$ (angular scales $5^\prime \gtrsim \theta \gtrsim 1^\prime$). By adding 95 and 150\,GHz data from the low-noise 500 deg$^2$ SPTpol survey to the SPT-SZ three-frequency 2540 deg$^2$ survey, we substantially reduce the uncertainties in these bands. These power spectra include contributions from the primary cosmic microwave background, cosmic infrared background, radio galaxies, and thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects. The data favor a thermal SZ (tSZ) power at 143\,GHz of $D^{\rm tSZ}_{3000} = 3.42 \pm 0.54~ \mu {\rm K}^2$ and a kinematic SZ (kSZ) power of $D^{\rm kSZ}_{3000} = 3.0 \pm 1.0~ \mu {\rm K}^2$. This is the first measurement of kSZ power at $\ge 3\,\sigma$. We study the implications of the measured kSZ power for the epoch of reionization, finding the duration of reionization to be $\Delta z_{re} = 1.0^{+1.6}_{-0.7}$ ($\Delta z_{re}< 4.1$ at 95% confidence), when combined with our previously published tSZ bispectrum measurement., Comment: Submitted to ApJ, 16 pages. (revised portions of the introduction and description of bandpower estimation)
Published: 2020
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32. The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey

Author: Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Stalder, B., Gladders, M. D., Ade, P. A. R., Allen, S. W., Anderson, A. J., Annis, J., Ashby, M. L. N., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Avva, J. S., Bayliss, M., Beall, J. A., Bechtol, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bianchini, F., Blake, C., Brodwin, M., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Costanzi, M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Eifler, T. F., Everett, W., Flaugher, B., Floyd, B., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., García-Bellido, J., George, E. M., Gerdes, D. W., Gilbert, A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Heymans, C., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Joudaki, S., Khullar, G., Klein, M., Knox, L., Kuropatkin, N., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lidman, C., Lowitz, A., MacCrann, N., Mahler, G., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Parkinson, D., Patil, S., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Pryke, C., Ramachandra, N. S., Reichardt, C. L., González, J. D. Remolina, Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sanchez, E., Saro, A., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Schrabback, T., Serrano, S., Sharon, K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Weller, J., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Zhang, Y., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Stalder, B., Gladders, M. D., Ade, P. A. R., Allen, S. W., Anderson, A. J., Annis, J., Ashby, M. L. N., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Avva, J. S., Bayliss, M., Beall, J. A., Bechtol, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bianchini, F., Blake, C., Brodwin, M., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Costanzi, M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Eifler, T. F., Everett, W., Flaugher, B., Floyd, B., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., García-Bellido, J., George, E. M., Gerdes, D. W., Gilbert, A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Heymans, C., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Joudaki, S., Khullar, G., Klein, M., Knox, L., Kuropatkin, N., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lidman, C., Lowitz, A., MacCrann, N., Mahler, G., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Parkinson, D., Patil, S., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Pryke, C., Ramachandra, N. S., Reichardt, C. L., González, J. D. Remolina, Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sanchez, E., Saro, A., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Schrabback, T., Serrano, S., Sharon, K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Weller, J., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., and Zhang, Y.
Abstract: We describe the observations and resultant galaxy cluster catalog from the 2770 deg$^2$ SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey (SPT-ECS). Clusters are identified via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, and confirmed with a combination of archival and targeted follow-up data, making particular use of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). With incomplete followup we have confirmed as clusters 244 of 266 candidates at a detection significance $\xi \ge 5$ and an additional 204 systems at $4<\xi<5$. The confirmed sample has a median mass of $M_{500c} \sim {4.4 \times 10^{14} M_\odot h_{70}^{-1}}$, a median redshift of $z=0.49$, and we have identified 44 strong gravitational lenses in the sample thus far. Radio data are used to characterize contamination to the SZ signal; the median contamination for confirmed clusters is predicted to be $\sim$1% of the SZ signal at the $\xi>4$ threshold, and $<4\%$ of clusters have a predicted contamination $>10\% $ of their measured SZ flux. We associate SZ-selected clusters, from both SPT-ECS and the SPT-SZ survey, with clusters from the DES redMaPPer sample, and find an offset distribution between the SZ center and central galaxy in general agreement with previous work, though with a larger fraction of clusters with significant offsets. Adopting a fixed Planck-like cosmology, we measure the optical richness-to-SZ-mass ($\lambda-M$) relation and find it to be 28% shallower than that from a weak-lensing analysis of the DES data---a difference significant at the 4 $\sigma$ level---with the relations intersecting at $\lambda=60$ . The SPT-ECS cluster sample will be particularly useful for studying the evolution of massive clusters and, in combination with DES lensing observations and the SPT-SZ cluster sample, will be an important component of future cosmological analyses., Comment: 49 pages, 14 figures, 10 tables. Minor changes to match accepted version in ApJS
Published: 2019
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33. Measurements of B-mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

Author: Sayre, J. T., Reichardt, C. L., Henning, J. W., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Sayre, J. T., Reichardt, C. L., Henning, J. W., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We report a B-mode power spectrum measurement from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropy observations made using the SPTpol instrument on the South Pole Telescope. This work uses 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol data, a five-fold increase over the last SPTpol B-mode release. As a result, the bandpower uncertainties have been reduced by more than a factor of two, and the measurement extends to lower multipoles: $52 < \ell < 2301$. Data from both 95 and 150 GHz are used, allowing for three cross-spectra: 95 GHz x 95 GHz, 95 GHz x 150 GHz, and 150 GHz x 150 GHz. B-mode power is detected at very high significance; we find $P(BB < 0) = 5.8 \times 10^{-71}$, corresponding to a $18.1 \sigma$ detection of power. An upper limit is set on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r < 0.44$ at 95% confidence (the expected $1 \sigma$ constraint on $r$ given the measurement uncertainties is 0.22). We find the measured B-mode power is consistent with the Planck best-fit $\Lambda$CDM model predictions. Scaling the predicted lensing B-mode power in this model by a factor Alens, the data prefer Alens = $1.17 \pm 0.13$. These data are currently the most precise measurements of B-mode power at $\ell > 320$., Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to PRD
Published: 2019
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34. Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from the 500 deg$^2$ SPTpol Lensing Power Spectrum

Author: Bianchini, F., Wu, W. L. K., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Yefremenko, V., Bianchini, F., Wu, W. L. K., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We present cosmological constraints based on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential power spectrum measurement from the recent 500 deg$^2$ SPTpol survey, the most precise CMB lensing measurement from the ground to date. We fit a flat $\Lambda$CDM model to the reconstructed lensing power spectrum alone and in addition with other data sets: baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) as well as primary CMB spectra from Planck and SPTpol. The cosmological constraints based on SPTpol and Planck lensing band powers are in good agreement when analysed alone and in combination with Planck full-sky primary CMB data. With weak priors on the baryon density and other parameters, the CMB lensing data alone provide a 4\% constraint on $\sigma_8\Omega_m^{0.25} = 0.0593 \pm 0.025$.. Jointly fitting with BAO data, we find $\sigma_8=0.779 \pm 0.023$, $\Omega_m = 0.368^{+0.032}_{-0.037}$, and $H_0 = 72.0^{+2.1}_{-2.5}\,\text{km}\,\text{s}^{-1}\,\text{Mpc}^{-1} $, up to $2\,\sigma$ away from the central values preferred by Planck lensing + BAO. However, we recover good agreement between SPTpol and Planck when restricting the analysis to similar scales. We also consider single-parameter extensions to the flat $\Lambda$CDM model. The SPTpol lensing spectrum constrains the spatial curvature to be $\Omega_K = -0.0007 \pm 0.0025$ and the sum of the neutrino masses to be $\sum m_{\nu} < 0.23$ eV at 95\% C.L. (with Planck primary CMB and BAO data), in good agreement with the Planck lensing results. With the differences in the $S/N$ of the lensing modes and the angular scales covered in the lensing spectra, this analysis represents an important independent check on the full-sky Planck lensing measurement., Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, updated to match the version published on ApJ
Published: 2019
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35. Fractional Polarisation of Extragalactic Sources in the 500-square-degree SPTpol Survey

Author: Gupta, N., Reichardt, C. L., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Archipley, M., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Feng, C., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, D. P., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Switzer, E. R., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Zhang, L., Gupta, N., Reichardt, C. L., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Archipley, M., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Feng, C., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, D. P., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Switzer, E. R., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., and Zhang, L.
Abstract: We study the polarisation properties of extragalactic sources at 95 and 150 GHz in the SPTpol 500 deg$^2$ survey. We estimate the polarised power by stacking maps at known source positions, and correct for noise bias by subtracting the mean polarised power at random positions in the maps. We show that the method is unbiased using a set of simulated maps with similar noise properties to the real SPTpol maps. We find a flux-weighted mean-squared polarisation fraction $\langle p^2 \rangle= [8.9\pm1.1] \times 10^{-4}$ at 95 GHz and $[6.9\pm1.1] \times 10^{-4}$ at 150~GHz for the full sample. This is consistent with the values obtained for a sub-sample of active galactic nuclei. For dusty sources, we find 95 per cent upper limits of $\langle p^2 \rangle_{\rm 95}<16.9 \times 10^{-3}$ and $\langle p^2 \rangle_{\rm 150}<2.6 \times 10^{-3}$. We find no evidence that the polarisation fraction depends on the source flux or observing frequency. The 1-$\sigma$ upper limit on measured mean squared polarisation fraction at 150 GHz implies that extragalactic foregrounds will be subdominant to the CMB E and B mode polarisation power spectra out to at least $\ell\lesssim5700$ ($\ell\lesssim4700$) and $\ell\lesssim5300$ ($\ell\lesssim3600$), respectively at 95 (150) GHz., Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2019
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36. A Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol

Author: Raghunathan, S., Patil, S., Baxter, E., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Crawford, T. M., Holder, G. P., McClintock, T., Reichardt, C. L., Varga, T. N., Whitehorn, N., Ade, P. A. R., Allam, S., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Avva, J. S., Bacon, D., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Bianchini, F., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Costanzi, M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, S., Evrard, A. E., Feng, C., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Gilbert, A., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Jeltema, T., Kind, M. Carrasco, Knox, L., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lima, M., Lowitz, A., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Padin, S., Plazas, A. A., Pryke, C., Rapetti, D., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Rozo, E., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sanchez, E., Sayre, J. T., Scarpine, V., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., De Vicente, J., Vieira, J. D., Vikram, V., Wang, G., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Zhang, Y., Raghunathan, S., Patil, S., Baxter, E., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Crawford, T. M., Holder, G. P., McClintock, T., Reichardt, C. L., Varga, T. N., Whitehorn, N., Ade, P. A. R., Allam, S., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Avva, J. S., Bacon, D., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Bianchini, F., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Costanzi, M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, S., Evrard, A. E., Feng, C., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Gilbert, A., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Jeltema, T., Kind, M. Carrasco, Knox, L., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lima, M., Lowitz, A., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Padin, S., Plazas, A. A., Pryke, C., Rapetti, D., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Rozo, E., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sanchez, E., Sayre, J. T., Scarpine, V., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., De Vicente, J., Vieira, J. D., Vikram, V., Wang, G., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., and Zhang, Y.
Abstract: We report the first detection of gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters using only the polarization 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 deg$^{2}$ survey at the locations of roughly 18,000 clusters with richness $\lambda \ge 10$ from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 full galaxy cluster catalog, we detect lensing at $4.8\sigma$. The mean stacked mass of the selected sample is found to be $(1.43 \pm 0.4)\ \times 10^{14}\ {\rm M_{\odot}}$ 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., Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; typos fixed; accepted for publication in PRL
Published: 2019
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37. A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data

Author: Wu, W. L. K., Mocanu, L. M., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Yefremenko, V., Wu, W. L. K., Mocanu, L. M., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using 500 deg$^2$ of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The lensing potential is reconstructed with signal-to-noise per mode greater than unity at lensing multipoles $L \lesssim 250$, using a quadratic estimator on a combination of CMB temperature and polarization maps. We report measurements of the lensing potential power spectrum in the multipole range of $100< L < 2000$ from sets of temperature-only, polarization-only, and minimum-variance estimators. We measure the lensing amplitude by taking the ratio of the measured spectrum to the expected spectrum from the best-fit $\Lambda$CDM model to the $\textit{Planck}$ 2015 TT+lowP+lensing dataset. For the minimum-variance estimator, we find $A_{\rm{MV}} = 0.944 \pm 0.058{\rm (Stat.)}\pm0.025{\rm (Sys.)}$; restricting to only polarization data, we find $A_{\rm{POL}} = 0.906 \pm 0.090 {\rm (Stat.)} \pm 0.040 {\rm (Sys.)}$. Considering statistical uncertainties alone, this is the most precise polarization-only lensing amplitude constraint to date (10.1 $\sigma$), and is more precise than our temperature-only constraint. We perform null tests and consistency checks and find no evidence for significant contamination., Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures; updated to match published version
Published: 2019
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38. Galaxy Clusters Selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the SPTpol 100-Square-Degree Survey

Author: Huang, N., Bleem, L. E., Stalder, B., Ade, P. A. R., Allen, S. W., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Floyd, B., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gladders, M. D., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Khullar, G., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Saro, A., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Sharon, K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Huang, N., Bleem, L. E., Stalder, B., Ade, P. A. R., Allen, S. W., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Floyd, B., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gladders, M. D., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Khullar, G., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Saro, A., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Sharon, K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We present a catalog of galaxy cluster candidates detected in 100 square degrees surveyed with the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The catalog contains 89 candidates detected with a signal-to-noise ratio greater than 4.6. The candidates are selected using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect at 95 and 150 GHz. Using both space- and ground-based optical and infrared telescopes, we have confirmed 81 candidates as galaxy clusters. We use these follow-up images and archival images to estimate photometric redshifts for 66 galaxy clusters and spectroscopic observations to obtain redshifts for 13 systems. An additional 2 galaxy clusters are confirmed using the overdensity of near-infrared galaxies only, and are presented without redshifts. We find that 15 candidates (18% of the total sample) are at redshift of $z \geq 1.0$, with a maximum confirmed redshift of $z_{\rm{max}} = 1.38 \pm 0.10$. We expect this catalog to contain every galaxy cluster with $M_{500c} > 2.6 \times 10^{14} M_\odot h^{-1}_{70}$ and $z > 0.25$ in the survey area. The mass threshold is approximately constant above $z = 0.25$, and the complete catalog has a median mass of approximately $ M_{500c} = 2.7 \times 10^{14} M_\odot h^{-1}_{70}$. Compared to previous SPT works, the increased depth of the millimeter-wave data (11.2 and 6.5 $\mu$K-arcmin at 95 and 150 GHz, respectively) makes it possible to find more galaxy clusters at high redshift and lower mass., Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures, associated data available at http://pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/sptsz-clusters. V2 was accepted to the AJ, and includes minor changes requested by the reviewer
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39. Consistency of cosmic microwave background temperature measurements in three frequency bands in the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey

Author: Mocanu, L. M., Crawford, T. M., Aylor, K., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H-M., Chown, R., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., Mocanu, L. M., Crawford, T. M., Aylor, K., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H-M., Chown, R., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., and Wu, W. L. K.
Abstract: We present an internal consistency test of South Pole Telescope (SPT) measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropy using three-band data from the SPT-SZ survey. These measurements are made from observations of ~2500 deg^2 of sky in three frequency bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz. We combine the information from these three bands into six semi-independent estimates of the CMB power spectrum (three single-frequency power spectra and three cross-frequency spectra) over the multipole range 650 < l < 3000. We subtract an estimate of foreground power from each power spectrum and evaluate the consistency among the resulting CMB-only spectra. We determine that the six foreground-cleaned power spectra are consistent with the null hypothesis, in which the six cleaned spectra contain only CMB power and noise. A fit of the data to this model results in a chi-squared value of 236.3 for 235 degrees of freedom, and the probability to exceed this chi-squared value is 46%., Comment: 21 pages, 4 figures, current version matches version published in JCAP
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40. A Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol

Author: Raghunathan, S., Patil, S., Baxter, E., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Crawford, T. M., Holder, G. P., McClintock, T., Reichardt, C. L., Varga, T. N., Whitehorn, N., Ade, P. A. R., Allam, S., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Avva, J. S., Bacon, D., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Bianchini, F., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Costanzi, M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, S., Evrard, A. E., Feng, C., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Gilbert, A., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Jeltema, T., Kind, M. Carrasco, Knox, L., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lima, M., Lowitz, A., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Padin, S., Plazas, A. A., Pryke, C., Rapetti, D., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Rozo, E., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sanchez, E., Sayre, J. T., Scarpine, V., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., De Vicente, J., Vieira, J. D., Vikram, V., Wang, G., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Zhang, Y., Raghunathan, S., Patil, S., Baxter, E., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Crawford, T. M., Holder, G. P., McClintock, T., Reichardt, C. L., Varga, T. N., Whitehorn, N., Ade, P. A. R., Allam, S., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Avva, J. S., Bacon, D., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Bianchini, F., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Costanzi, M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, S., Evrard, A. E., Feng, C., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Gilbert, A., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Jeltema, T., Kind, M. Carrasco, Knox, L., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lima, M., Lowitz, A., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Padin, S., Plazas, A. A., Pryke, C., Rapetti, D., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rosell, A. Carnero, Rozo, E., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sanchez, E., Sayre, J. T., Scarpine, V., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., De Vicente, J., Vieira, J. D., Vikram, V., Wang, G., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., and Zhang, Y.
Abstract: We report the first detection of gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters using only the polarization 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 deg$^{2}$ survey at the locations of roughly 18,000 clusters with richness $\lambda \ge 10$ from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 full galaxy cluster catalog, we detect lensing at $4.8\sigma$. The mean stacked mass of the selected sample is found to be $(1.43 \pm 0.4)\ \times 10^{14}\ {\rm M_{\odot}}$ 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., Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; typos fixed; accepted for publication in PRL
Published: 2019
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41. Galaxy Clusters Selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the SPTpol 100-Square-Degree Survey

Author: Huang, N., Bleem, L. E., Stalder, B., Ade, P. A. R., Allen, S. W., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Floyd, B., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gladders, M. D., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Khullar, G., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Saro, A., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Sharon, K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Huang, N., Bleem, L. E., Stalder, B., Ade, P. A. R., Allen, S. W., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Floyd, B., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gladders, M. D., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Khullar, G., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Saro, A., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Sharon, K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We present a catalog of galaxy cluster candidates detected in 100 square degrees surveyed with the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The catalog contains 89 candidates detected with a signal-to-noise ratio greater than 4.6. The candidates are selected using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect at 95 and 150 GHz. Using both space- and ground-based optical and infrared telescopes, we have confirmed 81 candidates as galaxy clusters. We use these follow-up images and archival images to estimate photometric redshifts for 66 galaxy clusters and spectroscopic observations to obtain redshifts for 13 systems. An additional 2 galaxy clusters are confirmed using the overdensity of near-infrared galaxies only, and are presented without redshifts. We find that 15 candidates (18% of the total sample) are at redshift of $z \geq 1.0$, with a maximum confirmed redshift of $z_{\rm{max}} = 1.38 \pm 0.10$. We expect this catalog to contain every galaxy cluster with $M_{500c} > 2.6 \times 10^{14} M_\odot h^{-1}_{70}$ and $z > 0.25$ in the survey area. The mass threshold is approximately constant above $z = 0.25$, and the complete catalog has a median mass of approximately $ M_{500c} = 2.7 \times 10^{14} M_\odot h^{-1}_{70}$. Compared to previous SPT works, the increased depth of the millimeter-wave data (11.2 and 6.5 $\mu$K-arcmin at 95 and 150 GHz, respectively) makes it possible to find more galaxy clusters at high redshift and lower mass., Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures, associated data available at http://pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/sptsz-clusters. V2 was accepted to the AJ, and includes minor changes requested by the reviewer
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42. Fractional Polarisation of Extragalactic Sources in the 500-square-degree SPTpol Survey

Author: Gupta, N., Reichardt, C. L., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Archipley, M., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Feng, C., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, D. P., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Switzer, E. R., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Zhang, L., Gupta, N., Reichardt, C. L., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Archipley, M., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Feng, C., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, D. P., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Switzer, E. R., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., and Zhang, L.
Abstract: We study the polarisation properties of extragalactic sources at 95 and 150 GHz in the SPTpol 500 deg$^2$ survey. We estimate the polarised power by stacking maps at known source positions, and correct for noise bias by subtracting the mean polarised power at random positions in the maps. We show that the method is unbiased using a set of simulated maps with similar noise properties to the real SPTpol maps. We find a flux-weighted mean-squared polarisation fraction $\langle p^2 \rangle= [8.9\pm1.1] \times 10^{-4}$ at 95 GHz and $[6.9\pm1.1] \times 10^{-4}$ at 150~GHz for the full sample. This is consistent with the values obtained for a sub-sample of active galactic nuclei. For dusty sources, we find 95 per cent upper limits of $\langle p^2 \rangle_{\rm 95}<16.9 \times 10^{-3}$ and $\langle p^2 \rangle_{\rm 150}<2.6 \times 10^{-3}$. We find no evidence that the polarisation fraction depends on the source flux or observing frequency. The 1-$\sigma$ upper limit on measured mean squared polarisation fraction at 150 GHz implies that extragalactic foregrounds will be subdominant to the CMB E and B mode polarisation power spectra out to at least $\ell\lesssim5700$ ($\ell\lesssim4700$) and $\ell\lesssim5300$ ($\ell\lesssim3600$), respectively at 95 (150) GHz., Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures
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43. A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data

Author: Wu, W. L. K., Mocanu, L. M., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Yefremenko, V., Wu, W. L. K., Mocanu, L. M., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using 500 deg$^2$ of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The lensing potential is reconstructed with signal-to-noise per mode greater than unity at lensing multipoles $L \lesssim 250$, using a quadratic estimator on a combination of CMB temperature and polarization maps. We report measurements of the lensing potential power spectrum in the multipole range of $100< L < 2000$ from sets of temperature-only, polarization-only, and minimum-variance estimators. We measure the lensing amplitude by taking the ratio of the measured spectrum to the expected spectrum from the best-fit $\Lambda$CDM model to the $\textit{Planck}$ 2015 TT+lowP+lensing dataset. For the minimum-variance estimator, we find $A_{\rm{MV}} = 0.944 \pm 0.058{\rm (Stat.)}\pm0.025{\rm (Sys.)}$; restricting to only polarization data, we find $A_{\rm{POL}} = 0.906 \pm 0.090 {\rm (Stat.)} \pm 0.040 {\rm (Sys.)}$. Considering statistical uncertainties alone, this is the most precise polarization-only lensing amplitude constraint to date (10.1 $\sigma$), and is more precise than our temperature-only constraint. We perform null tests and consistency checks and find no evidence for significant contamination., Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures; updated to match published version
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44. Consistency of cosmic microwave background temperature measurements in three frequency bands in the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey

Author: Mocanu, L. M., Crawford, T. M., Aylor, K., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H-M., Chown, R., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., Mocanu, L. M., Crawford, T. M., Aylor, K., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H-M., Chown, R., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., and Wu, W. L. K.
Abstract: We present an internal consistency test of South Pole Telescope (SPT) measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropy using three-band data from the SPT-SZ survey. These measurements are made from observations of ~2500 deg^2 of sky in three frequency bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz. We combine the information from these three bands into six semi-independent estimates of the CMB power spectrum (three single-frequency power spectra and three cross-frequency spectra) over the multipole range 650 < l < 3000. We subtract an estimate of foreground power from each power spectrum and evaluate the consistency among the resulting CMB-only spectra. We determine that the six foreground-cleaned power spectra are consistent with the null hypothesis, in which the six cleaned spectra contain only CMB power and noise. A fit of the data to this model results in a chi-squared value of 236.3 for 235 degrees of freedom, and the probability to exceed this chi-squared value is 46%., Comment: 21 pages, 4 figures, current version matches version published in JCAP
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45. Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from the 500 deg$^2$ SPTpol Lensing Power Spectrum

Author: Bianchini, F., Wu, W. L. K., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Yefremenko, V., Bianchini, F., Wu, W. L. K., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We present cosmological constraints based on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential power spectrum measurement from the recent 500 deg$^2$ SPTpol survey, the most precise CMB lensing measurement from the ground to date. We fit a flat $\Lambda$CDM model to the reconstructed lensing power spectrum alone and in addition with other data sets: baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) as well as primary CMB spectra from Planck and SPTpol. The cosmological constraints based on SPTpol and Planck lensing band powers are in good agreement when analysed alone and in combination with Planck full-sky primary CMB data. With weak priors on the baryon density and other parameters, the CMB lensing data alone provide a 4\% constraint on $\sigma_8\Omega_m^{0.25} = 0.0593 \pm 0.025$.. Jointly fitting with BAO data, we find $\sigma_8=0.779 \pm 0.023$, $\Omega_m = 0.368^{+0.032}_{-0.037}$, and $H_0 = 72.0^{+2.1}_{-2.5}\,\text{km}\,\text{s}^{-1}\,\text{Mpc}^{-1} $, up to $2\,\sigma$ away from the central values preferred by Planck lensing + BAO. However, we recover good agreement between SPTpol and Planck when restricting the analysis to similar scales. We also consider single-parameter extensions to the flat $\Lambda$CDM model. The SPTpol lensing spectrum constrains the spatial curvature to be $\Omega_K = -0.0007 \pm 0.0025$ and the sum of the neutrino masses to be $\sum m_{\nu} < 0.23$ eV at 95\% C.L. (with Planck primary CMB and BAO data), in good agreement with the Planck lensing results. With the differences in the $S/N$ of the lensing modes and the angular scales covered in the lensing spectra, this analysis represents an important independent check on the full-sky Planck lensing measurement., Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, updated to match the version published on ApJ
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46. Measurements of B-mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

Author: Sayre, J. T., Reichardt, C. L., Henning, J. W., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Sayre, J. T., Reichardt, C. L., Henning, J. W., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., and Yefremenko, V.
Abstract: We report a B-mode power spectrum measurement from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropy observations made using the SPTpol instrument on the South Pole Telescope. This work uses 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol data, a five-fold increase over the last SPTpol B-mode release. As a result, the bandpower uncertainties have been reduced by more than a factor of two, and the measurement extends to lower multipoles: $52 < \ell < 2301$. Data from both 95 and 150 GHz are used, allowing for three cross-spectra: 95 GHz x 95 GHz, 95 GHz x 150 GHz, and 150 GHz x 150 GHz. B-mode power is detected at very high significance; we find $P(BB < 0) = 5.8 \times 10^{-71}$, corresponding to a $18.1 \sigma$ detection of power. An upper limit is set on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r < 0.44$ at 95% confidence (the expected $1 \sigma$ constraint on $r$ given the measurement uncertainties is 0.22). We find the measured B-mode power is consistent with the Planck best-fit $\Lambda$CDM model predictions. Scaling the predicted lensing B-mode power in this model by a factor Alens, the data prefer Alens = $1.17 \pm 0.13$. These data are currently the most precise measurements of B-mode power at $\ell > 320$., Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to PRD
Published: 2019
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47. The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey

Author: Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Stalder, B., Gladders, M. D., Ade, P. A. R., Allen, S. W., Anderson, A. J., Annis, J., Ashby, M. L. N., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Avva, J. S., Bayliss, M., Beall, J. A., Bechtol, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bianchini, F., Blake, C., Brodwin, M., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Costanzi, M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Eifler, T. F., Everett, W., Flaugher, B., Floyd, B., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., García-Bellido, J., George, E. M., Gerdes, D. W., Gilbert, A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Heymans, C., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Joudaki, S., Khullar, G., Klein, M., Knox, L., Kuropatkin, N., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lidman, C., Lowitz, A., MacCrann, N., Mahler, G., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Parkinson, D., Patil, S., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Pryke, C., Ramachandra, N. S., Reichardt, C. L., González, J. D. Remolina, Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sanchez, E., Saro, A., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Schrabback, T., Serrano, S., Sharon, K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Weller, J., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Zhang, Y., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Stalder, B., Gladders, M. D., Ade, P. A. R., Allen, S. W., Anderson, A. J., Annis, J., Ashby, M. L. N., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Avva, J. S., Bayliss, M., Beall, J. A., Bechtol, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bianchini, F., Blake, C., Brodwin, M., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Costanzi, M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Eifler, T. F., Everett, W., Flaugher, B., Floyd, B., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., García-Bellido, J., George, E. M., Gerdes, D. W., Gilbert, A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Heymans, C., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Joudaki, S., Khullar, G., Klein, M., Knox, L., Kuropatkin, N., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lidman, C., Lowitz, A., MacCrann, N., Mahler, G., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Parkinson, D., Patil, S., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Pryke, C., Ramachandra, N. S., Reichardt, C. L., González, J. D. Remolina, Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sanchez, E., Saro, A., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Schrabback, T., Serrano, S., Sharon, K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Weller, J., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., and Zhang, Y.
Abstract: We describe the observations and resultant galaxy cluster catalog from the 2770 deg$^2$ SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey (SPT-ECS). Clusters are identified via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, and confirmed with a combination of archival and targeted follow-up data, making particular use of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). With incomplete followup we have confirmed as clusters 244 of 266 candidates at a detection significance $\xi \ge 5$ and an additional 204 systems at $4<\xi<5$. The confirmed sample has a median mass of $M_{500c} \sim {4.4 \times 10^{14} M_\odot h_{70}^{-1}}$, a median redshift of $z=0.49$, and we have identified 44 strong gravitational lenses in the sample thus far. Radio data are used to characterize contamination to the SZ signal; the median contamination for confirmed clusters is predicted to be $\sim$1% of the SZ signal at the $\xi>4$ threshold, and $<4\%$ of clusters have a predicted contamination $>10\% $ of their measured SZ flux. We associate SZ-selected clusters, from both SPT-ECS and the SPT-SZ survey, with clusters from the DES redMaPPer sample, and find an offset distribution between the SZ center and central galaxy in general agreement with previous work, though with a larger fraction of clusters with significant offsets. Adopting a fixed Planck-like cosmology, we measure the optical richness-to-SZ-mass ($\lambda-M$) relation and find it to be 28% shallower than that from a weak-lensing analysis of the DES data---a difference significant at the 4 $\sigma$ level---with the relations intersecting at $\lambda=60$ . The SPT-ECS cluster sample will be particularly useful for studying the evolution of massive clusters and, in combination with DES lensing observations and the SPT-SZ cluster sample, will be an important component of future cosmological analyses., Comment: 49 pages, 14 figures, 10 tables. Minor changes to match accepted version in ApJS
Published: 2019
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48. Measurements of the Cross Spectra of the Cosmic Infrared and Microwave Backgrounds from 95 to 1200 GHz

Author: Viero, M. P., Reichardt, C. L., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bock, J., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H-M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N. L., Holder, G., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Moncelsi, L., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Schaffer, K. K., Serra, P., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., Zemcov, M., Viero, M. P., Reichardt, C. L., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bock, J., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H-M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N. L., Holder, G., Holzapfel, W. L., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Moncelsi, L., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Schaffer, K. K., Serra, P., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R., and Zemcov, M.
Abstract: We present measurements of the power spectra of cosmic infrared background (CIB) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations in six frequency bands. Maps at the lower three frequency bands, 95, 150, and 220 GHz (3330, 2000, 1360 $\mu$m) are from the South Pole Telescope, while the upper three frequency bands, 600, 857, and 1200 GHz (500, 350, 250 $\mu$m) are observed with Herschel/SPIRE. From these data, we produce 21 angular power spectra (six auto- and fifteen cross-frequency) spanning the multipole range $600 \le \ell \le 11,000$. Our measurements are the first to cross-correlate measurements near the peak of the CIB spectrum with maps at 95 GHz, complementing and extending the measurements from Planck Collaboration et al. (2014) at 218, 550, and 857 GHz. The observed fluctuations originate largely from clustered, infrared-emitting, dusty star-forming galaxies, the CMB, and to a lesser extent radio galaxies, active galactic nuclei, and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect., Comment: 21 pages, 3 figures; Accepted by ApJS (updated to accepted version)
Published: 2018
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49. Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Joint Analysis of Galaxy Clustering, Galaxy Lensing, and CMB Lensing Two-point Functions

Author: Abbott, T. M. C., Abdalla, F. B., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Aylor, K., Banerji, M., Banik, N., Baxter, E. J., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Bianchini, F., Blazek, J., Bleem, L., Bleem, L. E., Bridle, S. L., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chang, C. L., Cho, H-M., Choi, A., Chown, R., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Crocce, M., Cunha, C. E., D'Andrea, C. B., da Costa, L. N., Davis, C., de Haan, T., DeRose, J., Desai, S., De Vicente, J., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T. F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, W. B., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N. L., Hartley, W. G., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hou, Z., Hoyle, B., Hrubes, J. D., Huterer, D., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Jeltema, T., Johnson, M. W. G., Johnson, M. D., Kent, S., Kirk, D., Knox, L., Kokron, N., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Li, T. S., Lima, M., Lin, H., Luong-Van, D., MacCrann, N., Maia, M. A. G., Manzotti, A., Marrone, D. P., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., McMahon, J. J., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Muir, J., Natoli, T., Nicola, A., Nord, B., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pandey, S., Plazas, A. A., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Pryke, C., Rau, M. M., Reichardt, C. L., Rollins, R. P., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Ross, A. J., Rozo, E., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Samuroff, S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Sayre, J. T., Scarpine, V., Schaffer, K. K., Secco, L. F., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shirokoff, E., Simard, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, D. L., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Vielzeuf, P., Vikram, V., Walker, A. R., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Zahn, O., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Abdalla, F. B., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Aylor, K., Banerji, M., Banik, N., Baxter, E. J., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Bianchini, F., Blazek, J., Bleem, L., Bleem, L. E., Bridle, S. L., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chang, C. L., Cho, H-M., Choi, A., Chown, R., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Crocce, M., Cunha, C. E., D'Andrea, C. B., da Costa, L. N., Davis, C., de Haan, T., DeRose, J., Desai, S., De Vicente, J., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T. F., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, W. B., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Friedrich, O., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N. L., Hartley, W. G., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hou, Z., Hoyle, B., Hrubes, J. D., Huterer, D., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Jeltema, T., Johnson, M. W. G., Johnson, M. D., Kent, S., Kirk, D., Knox, L., Kokron, N., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Li, T. S., Lima, M., Lin, H., Luong-Van, D., MacCrann, N., Maia, M. A. G., Manzotti, A., Marrone, D. P., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., McMahon, J. J., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Muir, J., Natoli, T., Nicola, A., Nord, B., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pandey, S., Plazas, A. A., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Pryke, C., Rau, M. M., Reichardt, C. L., Rollins, R. P., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Ross, A. J., Rozo, E., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Samuroff, S., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Sayre, J. T., Scarpine, V., Schaffer, K. K., Secco, L. F., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Shirokoff, E., Simard, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, D. L., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Vielzeuf, P., Vikram, V., Walker, A. R., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Zahn, O., Zhang, Y., and Zuntz, J.
Abstract: We perform a joint analysis of the auto and cross-correlations between three cosmic fields: the galaxy density field, the galaxy weak lensing shear field, and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) weak lensing convergence field. These three fields are measured using roughly 1300 sq. deg. of overlapping optical imaging data from first year observations of the Dark Energy Survey and millimeter-wave observations of the CMB from both the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich survey and Planck. We present cosmological constraints from the joint analysis of the two-point correlation functions between galaxy density and galaxy shear with CMB lensing. We test for consistency between these measurements and the DES-only two-point function measurements, finding no evidence for inconsistency in the context of flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmological models. Performing a joint analysis of five of the possible correlation functions between these fields (excluding only the CMB lensing autospectrum) yields $S_{8}\equiv \sigma_8\sqrt{\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3} = 0.782^{+0.019}_{-0.025}$ and $\Omega_{\rm m}=0.260^{+0.029}_{-0.019}$. We test for consistency between these five correlation function measurements and the Planck-only measurement of the CMB lensing autospectrum, again finding no evidence for inconsistency in the context of flat $\Lambda$CDM models. Combining constraints from all six two-point functions yields $S_{8}=0.776^{+0.014}_{-0.021}$ and $\Omega_{\rm m}= 0.271^{+0.022}_{-0.016}$. These results provide a powerful test and confirmation of the results from the first year DES joint-probes analysis., Comment: 20 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2018
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50. Cosmological lensing ratios with DES Y1, SPT and Planck

Author: Prat, J., Baxter, E. J., Shin, T., Sánchez, C., Chang, C., Jain, B., Miquel, R., Alarcon, A., Bacon, D., Bernstein, G. M., Cawthon, R., Crawford, T. M., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., Dodelson, S., Eifler, T. F., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Gruen, D., Hartley, W. G., Holder, G. P., Hoyle, B., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., MacCrann, N., Mawdsley, B., Nicola, A., Omori, Y., Pujol, A., Rau, M. M., Reichardt, C. L., Samuroff, S., Sheldon, E., Troxel, M. A., Vielzeuf, P., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Abdalla, F. B., Annis, J., Avila, S., Aylor, K., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bleem, L. E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Cho, H-M., Chown, R., Crites, A. T., Cunha, C. E., da Costa, L. N., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W. B., Evrard, A. E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Knox, L., Kron, R., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Lima, M., Luong-Van, D., Maia, M. A. G., Manzotti, A., Marrone, D. P., Marshall, J. L., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miller, C. J., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Plazas, A. A., Pryke, C., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, E., Sayre, J. T., Scarpine, V., Schaffer, K. K., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Shirokoff, E., Simard, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Vikram, V., Walker, A. R., Weller, J., Williamson, R., Zahn, O., Prat, J., Baxter, E. J., Shin, T., Sánchez, C., Chang, C., Jain, B., Miquel, R., Alarcon, A., Bacon, D., Bernstein, G. M., Cawthon, R., Crawford, T. M., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., Dodelson, S., Eifler, T. F., Friedrich, O., Gatti, M., Gruen, D., Hartley, W. G., Holder, G. P., Hoyle, B., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., MacCrann, N., Mawdsley, B., Nicola, A., Omori, Y., Pujol, A., Rau, M. M., Reichardt, C. L., Samuroff, S., Sheldon, E., Troxel, M. A., Vielzeuf, P., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T. M. C., Abdalla, F. B., Annis, J., Avila, S., Aylor, K., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bleem, L. E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Cho, H-M., Chown, R., Crites, A. T., Cunha, C. E., da Costa, L. N., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W. B., Evrard, A. E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hou, Z., Hrubes, J. D., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Knox, L., Kron, R., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Lima, M., Luong-Van, D., Maia, M. A. G., Manzotti, A., Marrone, D. P., Marshall, J. L., McMahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miller, C. J., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Padin, S., Plazas, A. A., Pryke, C., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, E., Sayre, J. T., Scarpine, V., Schaffer, K. K., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Shirokoff, E., Simard, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Vikram, V., Walker, A. R., Weller, J., Williamson, R., and Zahn, O.
Abstract: 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 down to small angular scales, even where directly modeling 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 $\Lambda$CDM model, we find a best fit lensing ratio amplitude of $A = 1.1 \pm 0.1$. 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., Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures
Published: 2018
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