Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-correlation between Dark Energy Survey Y1 galaxy weak lensing and South Pole Telescope+Planck CMB weak lensing

• Published in: Physical Review D
• Main Authors: Omori, Y., Crites, A. T., DES Collaboration, SPT Collaboration
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Physical Society 2019
• Subjects: Canada; Kavli; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.043517

We cross-correlate galaxy weak lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) year-one data with a cosmic microwave background (CMB) weak lensing map derived from South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck data, with an effective overlapping area of 1289  deg^2. With the combined measurements from four source galaxy redshift bins, we obtain a detection significance of 5.8σ. We fit the amplitude of the correlation functions while fixing the cosmological parameters to a fiducial ΛCDMmodel, finding A=0.99±0.17. We additionally use the correlation function measurements to constrain shear calibration bias, obtaining constraints that are consistent with previous DES analyses. Finally, when performing a cosmological analysis under the ΛCDM model, we obtain the marginalized constraints of Ω_m=0.261^(+0.070)_(−0.051) and S_8≡σ_8√Ω_m/0.3=0.660^(+0.085)_(−0.100). These measurements are used in a companion work that presents cosmological constraints from the joint analysis of two-point functions among galaxies, galaxy shears, and CMB lensing using DES, SPT, and Planck data. © 2019 American Physical Society. Received 2 November 2018; published 12 August 2019. Y. O. acknowledges funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Canada Research Chairs program, and support from the Kavli Foundation. E. B. is partially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Grant No. DE-SC0007901. C. C. was supported in part by the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago through Grant No. NSF PHY-1125897 and an endowment from Kavli Foundation and its founder Fred Kavli. Computations were made on the supercomputer Guillimin from McGill University, managed by Calcul Québec and Compute Canada. The operation of this supercomputer is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the ministère de l'Économie, de la science et de l'innovation du Québec (MESI), and the Fonds de recherche du Québec—Nature et ...