The Atacama cosmology telescope: delensed power spectra and parameters

Han, Dongwon, Sehgal, Neelima, MacInnis, Amanda, van Engelen, Alexander, Sherwin, Blake D., Madhavacheril, Mathew S., Aiola, Simone, Battaglia, Nicholas, Beall, James A., Becker, Daniel T., Calabrese, Erminia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0837-0068, Choi, Steve K., Darwish, Omar, Denison, Edward V., Devlin, Mark J., Dunkley, Jo, Ferraro, Simone, Fox, Anna E., Hasselfield, Matthew, Hill, J. Colin, Hilton, Gene C., Hilton, Matt, Hlozek, Renee, Hubmayr, Johannes, Hughes, John P., Kosowsky, Arthur, Van Lanen, Jeff, Louis, Thibaut, Moodley, Kavilan, Naess, Sigurd, Namikawa, Toshiya, Nati, Federico, Nibarger, John P., Niemack, Michael D., Page, Lyman A., Partridge, Bruce, Qu, Frank J., Schillaci, Alessandro, Spergel, David N., Staggs, Suzanne, Storer, Emilie and Wollack, Edward J. 2021. The Atacama cosmology telescope: delensed power spectra and parameters. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2021 (Jan) , 031. 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/01/031

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Abstract

We present ΛCDM cosmological parameter constraints obtained from delensed microwave background power spectra. Lensing maps from a subset of DR4 data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are used to undo the lensing effect in ACT spectra observed at 150 and 98 GHz. At 150 GHz, we remove the lensing distortion with an effective efficiency of 30% (TT), 30% (EE), 26% (TE) and 20% (BB); this results in detections of the delensing effect at 8.7σ (TT), 5.1σ (EE), 2.6σ (TE), and 2.4σ (BB) significance. The combination of 150 and 98 GHz TT, EE, and TE delensed spectra is well fit by a standard ΛCDM model. We also measure the shift in best-fit parameters when fitting delensed versus lensed spectra; while this shift does not inform our ability to measure cosmological parameters, it does provide a three-way consistency check among the lensing inferred from the best-fit parameters, the lensing in the CMB power spectrum, and the reconstructed lensing map. This shift is predicted to be zero when fitting with the correct model since both lensed and delensed spectra originate from the same region of sky. Fitting with a ΛCDM model and marginalizing over foregrounds, we find that the shift in cosmological parameters is consistent with zero. Our results show that gravitational lensing of the microwave background is internally consistent within the framework of the standard cosmological model.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA) Physics and Astronomy
Publisher:	IOP Publishing
ISSN:	1475-7516
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	3 December 2020
Date of Acceptance:	13 November 2020
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2024 20:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/136767

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