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

• Main Authors: Sánchez, J, Omori, Y, Chang, C, Bleem, LE, Crawford, T, Drlica-Wagner, A, Raghunathan, S, Zacharegkas, G, Abbott, TMC, Aguena, M, Alarcon, A, Allam, S, Alves, O, Amon, A, Avila, S, Baxter, E, Bechtol, K, Benson, BA, Bernstein, GM, Bertin, E, Bocquet, S, Brooks, D, Burke, DL, Campos, A, Carlstrom, JE, Rosell, A Carnero, Kind, M Carrasco, Carretero, J, Castander, FJ, Cawthon, R, Chang, CL, Chen, A, Choi, A, Chown, R, Costanzi, M, Crites, AT, Crocce, M, da Costa, LN, Pereira, MES, de Haan, T, De Vicente, J, DeRose, J, Desai, S, Diehl, HT, Dobbs, MA, 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, EM, Gerdes, DW, Giannini, G, Gruen, D, Gruendl, RA, Gschwend, J, Gutierrez, G, Halverson, NW, Hinton, SR, Holder, GP, Hollowood, DL, Holzapfel, WL, Honscheid, K, Hrubes, JD, James, DJ, Knox, L, Kuehn, K, Kuropatkin, N, Lahav, O, Lee, AT, Luong-Van, D, MacCrann, N, Marshall, JL, McCullough, J, McMahon, JJ, Melchior, P, Mena-Fernández, J, Menanteau, F, Miquel, R, Mocanu, L, Mohr, JJ, Muir, J, Myles, J, Natoli, T, Padin, S, Palmese, A, Pandey, S, Paz-Chinchón, F, Pieres, A, Malagón, AA Plazas, Porredon, A, Pryke, C, Raveri, M, Reichardt, CL
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2023
• Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics; Physical Sciences; galaxies: structure; large-scale structure of Universe; cosmology: observations; Astronomical and Space Sciences; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Astronomical sciences; Particle and high energy physics; Space sciences; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1c6167c8

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 Planck mission. We model this cross-correlation measurement together with the galaxy autocorrelation to constrain the distribution of gas in the Universe. We measure the hydrostatic mass bias or, equivalently, the mean halo bias-weighted electron pressure (bh Pe), using large-scale information. We find (bh Pe) to be [0.16+−000403, 0.28+−000504, 0.45+−001006, 0.54+−000708, 0.61+−000608, 0.63+−000807] meV cm−3 at redshifts z ∼ [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 108.5 K but are incompatible with the model that assumes an AGN heating temperature of 108.0 K. These comparisons indicate that the data prefer a higher value of electron pressure than the simulations within r500c of the galaxies’ haloes.