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Joint analysis of Dark Energy Survey Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck. I. Construction of CMB lensing maps and modeling choices

Y. Omori, E. J. Baxter, C. Chang, O. Friedrich, A. Alarcon, O. Alves, A. Amon, F. Andrade-Oliveira, K. Bechtol, M. R. Becker, G. M. Bernstein, J. Blazek, L. E. Bleem, H. Camacho, A. Campos, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, R. Cawthon, R. Chen, A. Choi, J. P. Cordero, T. M. Crawford, M. Crocce, C. Davis, J. DeRose, S. Dodelson, C. Doux, A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Eckert, T. F. Eifler, F. Elsner, J. Elvin-Poole, S. Everett, X. Fang, A. Ferté, P. Fosalba, M. Gatti, G. Giannini, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, I. Harrison, K. Herner, H. Huang, E. M. Huff, D. Huterer, M. Jarvis, E. Krause, N. Kuropatkin, P. -F. Leget, P. Lemos, A. R. Liddle, N. MacCrann, J. Mccullough, J. Muir, J. Myles, A. Navarro-Alsina, S. Pandey, Y. Park, A. Porredon, J. Prat, M. Raveri, R. P. Rollins, A. Roodman, R. Rosenfeld, A. J. Ross, E. S. Rykoff, C. Sánchez, J. Sanchez, L. F. Secco, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, E. Sheldon, T. Shin, M. A. Troxel, I. Tutusaus, T. N. Varga, N. Weaverdyck, R. H. Wechsler, W. L. K. Wu, B. Yanny, B. Yin, Y. Zhang, J. Zuntz, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena, S. S. Allam, J. Annis, D. Bacon, B. A. Benson, E. Bertin, S. Bocquet, D. Brooks, D. L. Burke, J. E. Carlstrom, J. Carretero, C. L. Chang, R. Chown, M. Costanzi, L. N. da Costa, A. T. Crites, M. E. S. Pereira, T. de Haan, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, M. A. Dobbs, P. Doel, W. Everett, I. Ferrero, B. Flaugher, D. Friedel, J. A. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, E. George, T. Giannantonio, N. W. Halverson, S. R. Hinton, G. P. Holder, D. L. Hollowood, W. L. Holzapfel, K. Honscheid, J. D. Hrubes, D. J. James, L. Knox, K. Kuehn, O. Lahav, A. Lee, M. Penna-Lima, D. Luong-Van, M. March, J. J. McMahon, P. Melchior, F. Menanteau, S. S. Meyer, R. Miquel, L. Mocanu, J. J. Mohr, R. Morgan, T. Natoli, S. Padin, A. Palmese, F. Paz-Chinchón, A. Pieres, A. A. Plazas Malagón, C. Pryke, C. L. Reichardt, A. K. Romer, J. E. Ruhl, E. Sanchez, K. K. Schaffer, M. Schubnell, S. Serrano, E. Shirokoff, M. Smith, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, E. Suchyta, G. Tarle, D. Thomas, C. To, J. D. Vieira, J. Weller, R. Williamson, D. W. Gerdes, SPT Collaborations

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 S88√(Ωm/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.

Keywords
Cosmic microwave background, Cosmological parameter, Dark matter, Evolution of the Universe, Gravitational lenses, Large scale structure of the Universe

Physical Review D
Volume 107, Issue 2, Page 30
2023 January

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Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia COMPETE 2020 PORTUGAL 2020 União Europeia