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Dark energy constraints from the thermal Sunyaev–Zeldovich power spectrum

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: We constrain the dark energy equation of state parameter, |${w}$|⁠, using the power spectrum of the thermal Sunyaev–Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. We improve upon previous analyses by taking into account the trispectrum in the covariance matrix and marginalizing over the foreground parameters, the correlated noise, the mass bias B in the Planck universal pressure profile, and all the relevant cosmological parameters (i.e. not just Ωm and σ8). We find that the amplitude of the tSZ power spectrum at ℓ ≲ 103 depends primarily on F ≡ σ8(Ωm/B)0.40h−0.21, where B is related to more commonly used variable b by B = (1 − b)−1. We measure this parameter with 2.6 per cent precision, F = 0.460 ± 0.012 (68 per cent CL). By fixing the bias to B = 1.25 and adding the local determination of the Hubble constant H0 and the amplitude of the primordial power spectrum constrained by the Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) data, we find |${w}$| = −1.10 ± 0.12, σ8 = 0.802 ± 0.037, and Ωm = 0.265 ± 0.022 (68 per cent CL). Our limit on |${w}$| is consistent with and is as tight as that from the distance-alone constraint from the CMB and H0. Finally, by combining the tSZ power spectrum and the CMB data we find, in the Λ cold dark matter model, the mass bias of B = 1.71 ± 0.17, i.e. 1 − b = 0.58 ± 0.06 (68 per cent CL).

Source: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty823

Authors: Boris Bolliet, Barbara Comis, Eiichiro Komatsu, Juan Francisco Macías-Pérez