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Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cluster Abundances, Weak Lensing, and Galaxy Correlations

C. To et al. (DES Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 141301 – Published 6 April 2021
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We present the first joint analysis of cluster abundances and auto or cross-correlations of three cosmic tracer fields: galaxy density, weak gravitational lensing shear, and cluster density split by optical richness. From a joint analysis (4×2pt+N) of cluster abundances, three cluster cross-correlations, and the auto correlations of the galaxy density measured from the first year data of the Dark Energy Survey, we obtain Ωm=0.3050.038+0.055 and σ8=0.7830.054+0.064. This result is consistent with constraints from the DES-Y1 galaxy clustering and weak lensing two-point correlation functions for the flat νΛCDM model. Consequently, we combine cluster abundances and all two-point correlations from across all three cosmic tracer fields (6×2pt+N) and find improved constraints on cosmological parameters as well as on the cluster observable-mass scaling relation. This analysis is an important advance in both optical cluster cosmology and multiprobe analyses of upcoming wide imaging surveys.

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  • Received 6 October 2020
  • Revised 7 January 2021
  • Accepted 23 February 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.141301

© 2021 American Physical Society

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Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

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A New View of the Universe’s Dark Side

Published 6 April 2021

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration has updated a model of the Universe to correctly capture more galaxy measurements.

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Vol. 126, Iss. 14 — 9 April 2021

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    Summary of the different components in this analysis and a nonexhaustive list of papers describing and validating our methodology. A more comprehensive list of relevant references can be found in Refs. [6, 17] and references therein. The data in this Letter consist of cluster abundances (N) and six two-point correlation functions derived from three cosmic tracer fields, namely, galaxy density (δg), weak gravitational lensing shear (γ), and cluster density (δc). The correlation functions include cosmic shear (γγ), galaxy-galaxy lensing (δgγ), galaxy clustering (δgδg), cluster-galaxy cross-correlation (δcδg), cluster autocorrelation (δcδc), and cluster lensing (δcγ).

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    Comparison of νΛCDM constraints on Ωm and σ8 derived from 4×2pt+N (blue) and other cluster cosmology analyses in the literature: DES-Y1 joint analysis of cluster abundances and weak lensing mass estimates from Ref. [17] (green); a joint analysis of DES cluster abundances and SPT-SZ multiwavelength data from Ref. [43] (black); the Weighing the Giants study from Ref. [14] (purple); the SPT-2500 analysis from Ref. [15] (pink). Contours show 68% and 95% confidence levels.

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    νΛCDM constraints on Ωm and σ8 from 3×2pt (black), 4×2pt+N (blue), and their combination (red). For comparison, the green contours show constraints from the CMB at high redshift (Planck without lensing). Contours show 68% and 95% confidence levels.

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    Comparison of the predicted mean mass at richness λ=40 and redshift z=0.35 and the slope of the richness scaling relation from this Letter (blue and red) with results in literature: a joint analysis of number counts and weak lensing mass estimates [17] (light green); a joint analysis of DES cluster abundances and SPT-SZ multiwavelength data [43] (black); SZ scaling relation [61] (dark green); autocorrelations of galaxy clusters [62] (purple); velocity dispersion [63] (gray); and CMB lensing [64] (brown). Error bars show 68% confidence intervals. The slope is unconstrained in Ref. [64]. We note that Refs. [17, 43] marginalize over cosmological parameters while Refs. [61, 62, 63, 64] fix cosmological parameters.

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