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most citedThe Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing Map and Cosmological Parameters

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53 papers

astro-ph.GA2025★ 17 cited

Backlighting extended gas halos around luminous red galaxies: kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from DESI Y1 x ACT

Bernardita Ried Guachalla, Emmanuel Schaan, Boryana Hadzhiyska +58

The gas density profile around galaxies, shaped by feedback and affecting the galaxy lensing signal, is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the kinematic Sunyaev-…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

A Novel Bispectrum Estimator of the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect using Projected Fields

Raagini Patki, Nicholas Battaglia, J. Colin Hill

With the advent of current and future high-resolution CMB experiments, the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect has become a unique observational probe of the distribution of…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A measurement of galaxy cluster temperatures through relativistic corrections to the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

William R. Coulton, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Zachary Atkins +32

The high electron temperature in galaxy clusters (keV or K) leads to corrections at the level of a few percent in their thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect signatures.…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Large-scale velocity reconstruction with the kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich effect and DESI LRGs

Fiona McCarthy, Nicholas Battaglia, Rachel Bean +27

The kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect induces a non-zero density-density-temperature bispectrum, which we can use to reconstruct the large-scale velocity field from a comb…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

Constraining cosmology with thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich maps: Minkowski functionals, peaks, minima, and moments

Alina Sabyr, J. Colin Hill, Zoltan Haiman

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (tSZ) is a sensitive probe of cosmology, as it traces the abundance of galaxy clusters and groups in the late-time Universe. Upcoming cosmic m…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Multi-probe cosmology with unWISE galaxies and ACT DR6 CMB lensing

Gerrit S. Farren, Alex Krolewski, Frank J. Qu +16

We present a joint analysis of the CMB lensing power spectra measured from the Data Release 6 of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Planck PR4, cross-correlations between the ACT…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Reionization kSZ trispectrum methodology and limits

Niall MacCrann, Frank J. Qu, Toshiya Namikawa +20

Patchy reionization generates kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Large-scale velocity perturbations along the line of sight mo…

astro-ph.GA2023

Cosmological shocks around galaxy clusters: A coherent investigation with DES, SPT & ACT

D. Anbajagane, C. Chang, E. J. Baxter +111

We search for signatures of cosmological shocks in gas pressure profiles of galaxy clusters using the cluster catalogs from three surveys: the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3, the…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 14 cited

Cosmology from Cross-Correlation of ACT-DR4 CMB Lensing and DES-Y3 Cosmic Shear

S. Shaikh, I. Harrison, A. van Engelen +105

Cross-correlation between weak lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and weak lensing of galaxies offers a way to place robust constraints on cosmological and astrophysi…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 50 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmology from cross-correlations of unWISE galaxies and ACT DR6 CMB lensing

Gerrit S. Farren, Alex Krolewski, Niall MacCrann +33

We present tomographic measurements of structure growth using cross-correlations of Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) DR6 and Planck CMB lensing maps with the unWISE Blue and Green…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

Cross-correlation of the thermal Sunyaev--Zel'dovich and CMB lensing signals in Planck PR4 data with robust CIB decontamination

Fiona McCarthy, J. Colin Hill

We use the full-mission Planck PR4 data to measure the CMB lensing convergence ()--thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ, ) cross-correlation, . This is only the secon…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: High-resolution component-separated maps across one-third of the sky

William R. Coulton, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +151

Observations of the millimeter sky contain valuable information on a number of signals, including the blackbody cosmic microwave background (CMB), Galactic emissions, and the Compt…

astro-ph.CO2023

Component-separated, CIB-cleaned thermal Sunyaev--Zel'dovich maps from PR4 data with a flexible public needlet ILC pipeline

Fiona McCarthy, J. Colin Hill

We use the full-mission PR4 data to construct maps of the thermal SunyaevZel'dovich effect (Compton- parameter) in our Universe. To do so, we implement a c…

astro-ph.CO2023

Cosmological constraints from the tomography of DES-Y3 galaxies with CMB lensing from ACT DR4

G. A. Marques, M. S. Madhavacheril, O. Darwish +92

We present a measurement of the cross-correlation between the MagLim galaxies selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) first three years of observations (Y3) and cosmic microwave…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 28 cited

Satellite radio detection via dual-microwave Rydberg spectroscopy

Peter K Elgee, Joshua C Hill, Kermit-James E Leblanc +4

Rydberg electric field sensors exploit the large number of Rydberg resonances to provide sensitivity over a broad range of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, due to the difficu…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 16 cited

The Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT, DES, and BOSS: a Novel Hybrid Estimator

M. Mallaby-Kay, S. Amodeo, J. C. Hill +80

The kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ and tSZ) effects probe the abundance and thermodynamics of ionized gas in galaxies and clusters. We present a new hybrid estimator…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Mitigating the impact of extragalactic foregrounds for the DR6 CMB lensing analysis

Niall MacCrann, Blake D. Sherwin, Frank J. Qu +47

We investigate the impact and mitigation of extragalactic foregrounds for the CMB lensing power spectrum analysis of Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) data release 6 (DR6) data. Tw…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

Did the Universe Reheat After Recombination?

J. Colin Hill, Boris Bolliet

A key assumption of the standard cosmological model is that the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation scales with cosmological redshift as $T_{\rm CMB}…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 347 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing Map and Cosmological Parameters

Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin +156

We present cosmological constraints from a gravitational lensing mass map covering 9400 sq. deg. reconstructed from CMB measurements made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) f…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 280 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and its Implications for Structure Growth

Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +155

We present new measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing over sq. deg. of the sky. These lensing measurements are derived from the Atacama Cosmology Telescop…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Systematic error mitigation for the PIXIE Fourier transform spectrometer

A. Kogut, Dale Fixsen, Nabila Aghanim +11

The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission concept to measure the spectrum and polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Cosmological signals are…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

High-accuracy emulators for observables in CDM, , , and cosmologies

Boris Bolliet, Alessio Spurio Mancini, J. Colin Hill +4

We use the emulation framework CosmoPower to construct and publicly release neural network emulators of cosmological observables, including the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) te…

astro-ph.CO2023

CMB-S4: Forecasting Constraints on Through -distortion Anisotropy

David Zegeye, Federico Bianchini, J. Richard Bond +14

Diffusion damping of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum results from imperfect photon-baryon coupling in the pre-recombination plasma. At redshift $5 \times 10^4…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

Enhancing Measurements of the CMB Blackbody Temperature Power Spectrum by Removing CIB and Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Contamination Using External Galaxy Catalogs

Aleksandra Kusiak, Kristen M. Surrao, J. Colin Hill

Extracting the CMB blackbody temperature power spectrum -- which is dominated by the primary CMB signal and the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect -- from mm-wave sky maps r…