Improving Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Cluster Number Counts with CMB-cluster-lensing Data: Results from the SPT-SZ Survey and Forecasts for the Future

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.

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac6a55

We show the improvement to cosmological constraints from galaxy cluster surveys with the addition of cosmic microwave background (CMB)-cluster lensing data. We explore the cosmological implications of adding mass information from the 3.1 sigma detection of gravitational lensing of the 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 follow-up data. In the ACDM model, the combination of the cluster sample with the Planck power spectrum measurements prefers sigma(8) (Omega(m)/0.3)(0.5) = 0.831 +/- 0.020. Adding the cluster data reduces the uncertainty on this quantity by a factor of 1.4, which is unchanged whether the 3.1 sigma CMB-cluster lensing measurement is included or not. 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 ongoing 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 respective factors of 2.4 and 3.6 for SPT-3G and CMB-S4.

Improving Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Cluster Number Counts with CMB-cluster-lensing Data: Results from the SPT-SZ Survey and Forecasts for the Future / 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.. - In: THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. - ISSN 0004-637X. - 931/2022:2(2022), pp. 139."-"-139."-". [10.3847/1538-4357/ac6a55]