Constraining the Halo Mass of Damped Ly$\alpha$ Absorption Systems (DLAs) at $z=2-3.5$ using the Quasar-CMB Lensing Cross-correlation

Abstract

We study the cross correlation of damped Ly$\alpha$ systems (DLAs) and their background quasars, using the most updated DLA catalog and the Planck 2018 CMB lensing convergence field. Our measurement suggests that the DLA bias $b_{\mathrm{DLA}}$ is smaller than $3.1$, corresponding to $\log (M/M_{\odot }{h}^{-1})\le 12.3$ at a confidence of $90\%$. These constraints are broadly consistent with Alonso et al. (2018) and previous measurements by cross-correlation between DLAs and the Ly$\alpha$ forest (e.g. Font-Ribera et al. 2012; Perez-Rafols et al. 2018). Further, our results demonstrate the potential of obtaining a more precise measurement of the halo mass of high-redshift sources using next generation CMB experiments with a higher angular resolution. The python-based codes and data products of our analysis are available at https://github.com/LittleLin1999/CMB-lensingxDLA.

arXiv commentAccepted for Publication in ApJ; 16 pages, 9 figures

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