Weak Lensing Mass Calibration of the ACT DR5 Galaxy Clusters with the DES Year 3 Weak Lensing Data

Shin, T.; Baxter, E. J.; Lee, E.; Battaglia, N.; Alarcon, A.; Amon, A.; Becker, M.; Bernstein, G.; Bond, J. R.; Campos, A.; Chang, C.; Chen, R.; Choi, A.; DeRose, J.; Dodelson, S.; Doux, C.; Dunkley, J.; Elvin-Poole, J.; Esteves, J. H.; Everett, S.; Ferté, A.; Gatti, M.; Grandis, S.; Gruen, D.; Harrison, I.; Hill, J. C.; Hilton, M.; Jarvis, M.; MacCrann, N.; McCullough, J.; Moodley, K.; Mroczkowski, T.; Myles, J.; Navarro Alsina, A.; Nicola, A.; Page, L.; Pandey, S.; Prat, J.; Raveri, M.; Ried Guachalla, B.; Rollins, R. P.; Sanchez, C.; Secco, L. F.; Sheldon, E.; Sifón, C.; Troxel, M.; Tutusaus, I.; von der Linden, A.; Wollack, E.; Yin, B.; Aguena, M.; Allam, S. S.; Alves, O.; Andrade-Oliveira, F.; Bacon, D.; Bocquet, S.; Brooks, D.; Camilleri, R.; Carnero Rosell, A.; Carretero, J.; Castander, F. J.; Costanzi, M.; da Costa, L.; da Silva Pereira, M. E.; Davis, T.; De Vicente, J.; Desai, S.; Flaugher, B.; Frieman, J.; Garcia-Bellido, J.; Gutierrez, G.; Hinton, S.; Hollowood, D. L.; Huterer, D.; James, D.; Lee, S.; Marshall, J.; Mena-Fernández, J.; Menanteau, F.; Miquel, R.; Mohr, J.; Muir, J.; Ogando, R.; Plazas Malagón, A.; Porredon, A.; Romer, K.; Sanchez, E.; Sanchez Cid, D.; Sevilla, I.; Smith, M.; Soares-Santos, M.; Suchyta, E.; Swanson, M.; To, C.; Weaverdyck, N.; Weller, J.
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Fecha de publicación:
8
2026
Número de autores
96
Número de autores del IAC
1
Número de citas
7
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0
Descripción
We use weak gravitational lensing measurements from Year 3 Dark Energy Survey data to calibrate the masses of 443 galaxy clusters selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 5 maps of the cosmic microwave background. We incorporate redshift and SZ measurements for individual clusters into a hierarchical model for the stacked lensing signals and perform Bayesian analyses to constrain the hydrostatic mass bias of the clusters. Our treatment of systematic uncertainties includes a prescription for measuring and accounting for the weak lensing boost factor, consideration of a miscentering effect, as well as marginalization over uncertainties in the source galaxy photometric redshift distributions and shear calibration. The resultant constraints on the normalization of the mass-observable relation have a precision of approximately 7%, with the mean WL halo mass of M 500c = 5.4 × 1014 M ⊙. We measure the bias between the true cluster mass and the mass estimated from the SZ signal based on an X-ray--calibrated scaling relation assuming hydrostatic equilibrium, to be 1 - b = 0.74+0.06 -0.05 over the full sample. When splitting the clusters into high (z = 0.43--0.70) and low (z = 0.15--0.43) redshift bins, we measure 1 - b = 0.58+0.06 -0.05 and 0.81+0.08 -0.06, respectively. When introducing additional freedom in redshift and mass to the hydrostatic bias model, we find that 1 - b decreases with redshift (with the power law of -1.8+0.5 -0.6, 99.95% confidence), consistent with findings from other recent studies, while we do not find any significant trend in mass. We also demonstrate that our result is robust against various systematics such as a scale cut, priors on baryonic and miscentering parameters, and degree of scatter in mass-observable relation. The weak-lensing mass calibration presented in this study will be a useful tool for using the ACT clusters as probes of astrophysics, and as a step towards using their abundance as a cosmological probe.