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Register a new userFirst Identification of a CMB Lensing Signal Produced by $1.5$ Million Galaxies at $zsim$4: Constraints on Matter Density Fluctuations at High Redshift
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We report the first detection of the dark matter distribution around Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at high redshift through the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing measurements with the public {it Planck} PR3 $kappa$ map. The LBG sample consists of 1,473,106 objects with the median redshift of $z sim 4$ that are identified in a total area of 305 deg$^2$ observed by the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Strategic Survey Program (SSP) survey. After careful investigations of systematic uncertainties, such as contamination from foreground galaxies and Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB), we obtain the significant detection of the CMB lensing signal at $5.1sigma$ that is dominated by 2-halo term signals of the LBGs. Fitting a simple model consisting of the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) profile and the linear-bias model, we obtain the typical halo mass of $3.1^{+9.3}_{-2.8} times 10^{11} h^{-1} M_odot$. Combining the CMB lensing and galaxy-galaxy clustering signals on the large scales, we demonstrate the first cosmological analysis at $zsim4$ that constrains $(Omega_{{rm m}0}$, $sigma_8)$. We find that our constraint on $sigma_8$ is roughly consistent with the {it Planck} best-fit cosmology, while this $sigma_8$ constraint is lower than the {it Planck} cosmology over the $1sigma$ level. This study opens up a new window for constraining cosmological parameters at high redshift by the combination of CMB and high-$z$ galaxies as well as studying the interplay between galaxy evolution and larges-scale structure at such high redshift, by upcoming CMB and optical and near-infrared imaging surveys.
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We test general relativity (GR) at the effective redshift $bar{z} sim 1.5$ by estimating the statistic $E_G$, a probe of gravity, on cosmological scales $19 - 190,h^{-1}{rm Mpc}$. This is the highest-redshift and largest-scale estimation of $E_G$ so far. We use the quasar sample with redshifts $0.8 < z < 2.2$ from Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 16 (DR16) as the large-scale structure (LSS) tracer, for which the angular power spectrum $C_ell^{qq}$ and the redshift-space distortion (RSD) parameter $beta$ are estimated. By cross correlating with the $textit{Planck}$ 2018 cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing map, we detect the angular cross-power spectrum $C_ell^{kappa q}$ signal at $12,sigma$ significance. Both jackknife resampling and simulations are used to estimate the covariance matrix (CM) of $E_G$ at $5$ bins covering different scales, with the later preferred for its better constraints on the covariances. We find $E_G$ estimates agree with the GR prediction at $1,sigma$ level over all these scales. With the CM estimated with $300$ simulations, we report a best-fit scale-averaged estimate of $E_G(bar{z})=0.30pm 0.05$, which is in line with the GR prediction $E_G^{rm GR}(bar{z})=0.33$ with $textit{Planck}$ 2018 CMB+BAO matter density fraction $Omega_{rm m}=0.31$. The statistical errors of $E_G$ with future LSS surveys at similar redshifts will be reduced by an order of magnitude, which makes it possible to constrain modified gravity models.
Intermediate redshifts between galaxy surveys and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) remain unexplored territory. Line intensity mapping (LIM) offers a way to probe the $zgtrsim 1$ Universe, including the epoch of reionization and the dark ages. Via exact nulling of the lensing kernel, we show that LIM lensing, in combination with galaxy (resp., CMB) lensing, can uniquely probe the $zgtrsim 1$ (resp., pre-reionization) Universe. However, LIM foregrounds are a key hurdle to this futuristic technique. While continuum foregrounds can be controlled by discarding modes perpendicular to the line of sight (low $k_parallel$ modes), interloper foregrounds havent been addressed in the context of LIM lensing. In this paper, we quantify the interloper bias to LIM lensing for the first time, and derive a LIM-pair estimator which avoids it exactly after cross-correlating with CMB lensing. This new quadratic lensing estimator works by combining two intensity maps in different lines, from the same redshift, whose interlopers are uncorrelated. As a result, this foreground avoidance method is robust to even large changes in the amplitude of the interloper power and non-Gaussianity. The cross-spectrum of the LIM-pair estimator with CMB lensing is thus robust to the currently large theoretical uncertainties in LIM modeling at high redshift.
Intrinsic alignments (IA), the coherent alignment of intrinsic galaxy orientations, can be a source of a systematic error of weak lensing surveys. The redshift evolution of IA also contains information about the physics of galaxy formation and evolution. This paper presents the first measurement of IA at high redshift, $zsim 1.4$, using the spectroscopic catalog of blue star-forming galaxies of the FastSound redshift survey, with the galaxy shape information from the Canada-Hawaii-France telescope lensing survey. The IA signal is consistent with zero with power-law amplitudes fitted to the projected correlation functions for density-shape and shape-shape correlation components, $A_{delta+}=-0.0071pm 0.1340$ and $A_{++}=-0.0505pm 0.0848$, respectively. These results are consistent with those obtained from blue galaxies at lower redshifts (e.g., $A_{delta+}=0.0035_{-0.0389}^{+0.0387}$ and $A_{++}=0.0045_{-0.0168}^{+0.0166}$ at $z=0.51$ from the WiggleZ survey). The upper limit of the constrained IA amplitude corresponds to a few percent contamination to the weak-lensing shear power spectrum, resulting in systematic uncertainties on the cosmological parameter estimations by $-0.052<Delta sigma_8<0.039$ and $-0.039<Delta Omega_m<0.030$.
We present robust constraints on the stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) at Mpc scales from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. CMB constraints on GWs are usually characterized as the tensor-to-scalar ratio, assuming specifically a power-law form of the primordial spectrum, and are obtained from the angular spectra of CMB. Here, we relax the assumption of the power-law form, and consider to what extent one can constrain a monochromatic GW at shorter wavelengths. Previously, such a constraint has been derived at the wavelengths larger than the resolution scale of the CMB measurements, typically above $100$Mpc (below $10^{-16}$Hz in frequency). However, GWs whose wavelength is much shorter than $100$Mpc can imprint a small but non-negligible signal on CMB anisotropies at observed angular scales, $ell<1000$. Here, using the CMB temperature, polarization, and lensing data set, we obtain the best constraints to date at $10^{-16}-10^{-14}$Hz of the GWs produced before the time of decoupling, which are tighter than those derived from the astrometric measurements and upper bounds on extra radiations. In the future, the constraints on GWs at Mpc scales will be further improved by several orders of magnitude with the precision $B$-mode measurement on large scales, $ell<100$.
Many gravitationally lensed quasars exhibit flux ratio anomalies that cannot be explained under the hypothesis that the lensing potential is smooth on scales smaller than one kpc. Micro-lensing by stars is a natural source of granularity in the lens potential. The character of the expected fluctuations due to micro-lensing depends sensitively on the relative surface densities of micro-lenses (stars) and smoothly distributed (dark) matter. Observations of flux ratios may therefore be used to infer the ratio of stellar to dark matter along the line of sight -- typically at impact parameters 1.5 times the half light radius. Several recently discovered systems have anomalies that would seem to be explained by micro-lensing only by demanding that 70-90% of the matter along the line of sight be smoothly distributed.
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