SPT Clusters with DES and HST Weak Lensing. I. Cluster Lensing and Bayesian Population Modeling of Multi-Wavelength Cluster Datasets ...

• Main Authors: Bocquet, S., Grandis, S., Bleem, L. E., Klein, M., Mohr, J. J., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Allen, S. W., Alves, O., Amon, A., Ansarinejad, B., Bacon, D., Bayliss, M., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Brodwin, M., Brooks, D., Campos, A., Canning, R. E. A., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, R., Choi, A., Cordero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, C., de Haan, T., DeRose, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flores, A. M., Frieman, J.
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2023
• Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics astro-ph.CO; FOS Physical sciences; Hubble; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2310.12213; https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12213

We present a Bayesian population modeling method to analyze the abundance of galaxy clusters identified by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) with a simultaneous mass calibration using weak gravitational lensing data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We discuss and validate the modeling choices with a particular focus on a robust, weak-lensing-based mass calibration using DES data. For the DES Year 3 data, we report a systematic uncertainty in weak-lensing mass calibration that increases from 1% at $z=0.25$ to 10% at $z=0.95$, to which we add 2% in quadrature to account for uncertainties in the impact of baryonic effects. We implement an analysis pipeline that joins the cluster abundance likelihood with a multi-observable likelihood for the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, optical richness, and weak-lensing measurements for each individual cluster. We validate that our analysis pipeline can recover unbiased cosmological constraints by analyzing mocks that closely resemble the ... : Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D. arXiv v2 corresponds to published article ...