Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Cluster Science

• Main Authors: Melin, J.-B., Bonaldi, A., Remazeilles, M., Hagstotz, S., Diego, J.M., Hernandez-Monteagudo, C., Genova-Santos, R.T., Luzzi, G., Martins, C.J.A.P., Grandis, S., Mohr, J.J., Bartlett, J.G., Delabrouille, J., Ferraro, S., Tramonte, D., Rubino-Martin, J.A., Macias-Perez, J.F., Achúcarro, A., Ade, P.A.R., Allison, R., Ashdown, M., Ballardini, M., Banday, A.J., Banerji, R., Bartolo, N., Basak, S., Baselmans, J., Basu, K., Battye, R.A., Baumann, D., Bersanelli, M., Bonato, M., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F.R., Boulanger, F., Brinckmann, T., Bucher, M., Burigana, C., Buzzelli, A., Cai, Z.Y., Calvo, M., Carvalho, C.S., Castellano, M.G., Challinor, A., Chluba, J., Clesse, S., Colafrancesco, S., Colantoni, I., Coppolecchia, A., Crook, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2018
• Subjects: South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13310/; https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13310/1/NT_experimental%20physics_exploring.pdf

We examine the cosmological constraints that can be achieved with a galaxy cluster survey with the future CORE space mission. Using realistic simulations of the millimeter sky, produced with the latest version of the Planck Sky Model, we characterize the CORE cluster catalogues as a function of the main mission performance parameters. We pay particular attention to telescope size, key to improved angular resolution, and discuss the comparison and the complementarity of CORE with ambitious future ground-based CMB experiments that could be deployed in the next decade. A possible CORE mission concept with a 150 cm diameter primary mirror can detect of the order of 50,000 clusters through the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE). The total yield increases (decreases) by 25% when increasing (decreasing) the mirror diameter by 30 cm. The 150 cm telescope configuration will detect the most massive clusters (> 1014 M) at redshift z > 1.5 over the whole sky, although the exact number above this redshift is tied to the uncertain evolution of the cluster SZE flux-mass relation; assuming self-similar evolution, CORE will detect ∼ 500 clusters at redshift z > 1.5. This changes to 800 (200) when increasing (decreasing) the mirror size by 30 cm. CORE will be able to measure individual cluster halo masses through lensing of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies with a 1-σ sensitivity of 4 × 1014M, for a 120 cm aperture telescope, and 1014M for a 180 cm one. From the ground, we estimate that, for example, a survey with about 150,000 detectors at the focus of 350 cm telescopes observing 65% of the sky from Atacama would be shallower than CORE and detect about 11,000 clusters, while a survey from the South Pole with the same number of detectors observing 25% of sky with a 10 m telescope is expected to be deeper and to detect about 70,000 clusters. When combined with such a South Pole survey, CORE would reach a limiting mass of M500 ∼ 2 − 3 × 1013Mand detect 220,000 clusters (5 sigma detection limit). Cosmological ...