Constraining Cluster Virialization Mechanism and Cosmology Using Thermal-SZ-selected Clusters from Future CMB Surveys

  • Srinivasan Raghunathan
  • , Nathan Whitehorn
  • , Marcelo A. Alvarez
  • , Han Aung
  • , Nicholas Battaglia
  • , Gilbert P. Holder
  • , Daisuke Nagai
  • , Elena Pierpaoli
  • , Christian L. Reichardt
  • , Joaquin D. Vieira

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Abstract

We forecast the number of galaxy clusters that can be detected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) signals by future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, primarily the wide area survey of the CMB-S4 experiment but also CMB-S4's smaller de-lensing survey and the proposed CMB-HD experiment. We predict that CMB-S4 will detect 75,000 clusters with its wide survey of f sky = 50% and 14,000 clusters with its deep survey of f sky = 3%. Of these, approximately 1350 clusters will be at z ≥ 2, a regime that is difficult to probe by optical or X-ray surveys. We assume CMB-HD will survey the same sky as the S4-Wide, and find that CMB-HD will detect three times more overall and an order of magnitude more z ≥ 2 clusters than CMB-S4. These results include galactic and extragalactic foregrounds along with atmospheric and instrumental noise. Using CMB-cluster lensing to calibrate the cluster tSZ-mass scaling relation, we combine cluster counts with primary CMB to obtain cosmological constraints for a two-parameter extension of the standard model (ΛCDM + m ν + w 0). In addition to constraining σ(w 0) to ≥21%, we find that both surveys can enable a ∼2.5-4.5σ detection of m ν , substantially strengthening CMB-only constraints. We also study the evolution of the intracluster medium by modeling the cluster virialization v(z) and find tight constraints from CMB-S4, with further factors of three to four improvement for CMB-HD.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number172
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume926
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2022

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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