The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and Its Implications for Structure Growth (2024)

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We present new measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing over 9400 deg² of the sky. These lensing measurements are derived from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) CMB data set, which consists of five seasons of ACT CMB temperature and polarization observations. We determine the amplitude of the CMB lensing power spectrum at 2.3% precision (43σ significance) using a novel pipeline that minimizes sensitivity to foregrounds and to noise properties. To ensure that our results are robust, we analyze an extensive set of null tests, consistency tests, and systematic error estimates and employ a blinded analysis framework. Our CMB lensing power spectrum measurement provides constraints on the amplitude of cosmic structure that do not depend on Planck or galaxy survey data, thus giving independent information about large-scale structure growth and potential tensions in structure measurements. The baseline spectrum is well fit by a lensing amplitude of A _lens = 1.013 ± 0.023 relative to the Planck 2018 CMB power spectra best-fit ΛCDM model and A _lens = 1.005 ± 0.023 relative to the ACT DR4 + WMAP best-fit model. From our lensing power spectrum measurement, we derive constraints on the parameter combination S 8 CMBL ≡ σ 8 Ω m / 0.3 0.25 of S 8 CMBL = 0.818 ± 0.022 from ACT DR6 CMB lensing alone and S 8 CMBL = 0.813 ± 0.018 when combining ACT DR6 and Planck NPIPE CMB lensing power spectra. These results are in excellent agreement with ΛCDM model constraints from Planck or ACT DR4 + WMAP CMB power spectrum measurements. Our lensing measurements from redshifts z ∼ 0.5-5 are thus fully consistent with ΛCDM structure growth predictions based on CMB anisotropies probing primarily z ∼ 1100. We find no evidence for a suppression of the amplitude of cosmic structure at low redshifts.

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Article number	112
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	962
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acfe06
State	Published - Feb 1 2024

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Qu, F. J., Sherwin, B. D., Madhavacheril, M. S., Han, D., Crowley, K. T., Abril-Cabezas, I., Ade, P. A. R., Aiola, S., Alford, T., Amiri, M., Amodeo, S., An, R., Atkins, Z., Austermann, J. E., Battaglia, N., Battistelli, E. S., Beall, J. A., Bean, R., Beringue, B., ... Zheng, K. (2024). The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and Its Implications for Structure Growth. Astrophysical Journal, 962(2), Article 112. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acfe06

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and Its Implications for Structure Growth. / Qu, Frank J.; Sherwin, Blake D.; Madhavacheril, Mathew S. et al.
In: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 962, No. 2, 112, 01.02.2024.

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Qu, FJ, Sherwin, BD, Madhavacheril, MS, Han, D, Crowley, KT, Abril-Cabezas, I, Ade, PAR, Aiola, S, Alford, T, Amiri, M, Amodeo, S, An, R, Atkins, Z, Austermann, JE, Battaglia, N, Battistelli, ES, Beall, JA, Bean, R, Beringue, B, Bhandarkar, T, Biermann, E, Bolliet, B, Bond, JR, Cai, H, Calabrese, E, Calafut, V, Capalbo, V, Carrero, F, Carron, J, Challinor, A, Chesmore, GE, Cho, HM, Choi, SK, Clark, SE, Rosado, RC, Cothard, NF, Coughlin, K, Coulton, W, Dalal, R, Darwish, O, Devlin, MJ, Dicker, S, Doze, P, Duell, CJ, Duff, SM, Duivenvoorden, AJ, Dunkley, J, Dünner, R, Fanfani, V, Fankhanel, M, Farren, G, Ferraro, S, Freundt, R, Fuzia, B, Gallardo, PA, Garrido, X, Gluscevic, V, Golec, JE, Guan, Y, Halpern, M, Harrison, I, Hasselfield, M, Healy, E, Henderson, S, Hensley, B, Hervías-Caimapo, C, Hill, JC, Hilton, GC, Hilton, M, Hincks, AD, Hložek, R, Ho, SPP, Huber, ZB, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, KM, Hughes, JP, Irwin, K, Isopi, G, Jense, HT, Keller, B, Kim, J, Knowles, K, Koopman, BJ, Kosowsky, A, Kramer, D, Kusiak, A, La Posta, A, Lague, A, Lakey, V, Lee, E, Li, Z, Li, Y, Limon, M, Lokken, M, Louis, T, Lungu, M, MacCrann, N, MacInnis, A, Maldonado, D, Maldonado, F, Mallaby-Kay, M, Marques, GA, McMahon, J, Mehta, Y, Menanteau, F, Moodley, K, Morris, TW, Mroczkowski, T, Naess, S, Namikawa, T, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Nicola, A, Niemack, MD, Nolta, MR, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Page, LA, Pandey, S, Partridge, B, Prince, H, Puddu, R, Radiconi, F, Robertson, N, Rojas, F, Sakuma, T, Salatino, M, Schaan, E, Schmitt, BL, Sehgal, N, Shaikh, S, Sierra, C, Sievers, J, Sifón, C, Simon, S, Sonka, R, Spergel, DN, Staggs, ST, Storer, E, Switzer, ER, Tampier, N, Thornton, R, Trac, H, Treu, J, Tucker, C, Ullom, J, Vale, LR, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, van Marrewijk, J, Vargas, C, Vavagiakis, EM, Wagoner, K, Wang, Y, Wenzl, L, Wollack, EJ, Xu, Z, Zago, F & Zheng, K 2024, 'The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and Its Implications for Structure Growth', Astrophysical Journal, vol. 962, no. 2, 112. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acfe06

Qu FJ, Sherwin BD, Madhavacheril MS, Han D, Crowley KT, Abril-Cabezas I et al. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and Its Implications for Structure Growth. Astrophysical Journal. 2024 Feb 1;962(2):112. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/acfe06

Qu, Frank J. ; Sherwin, Blake D. ; Madhavacheril, Mathew S. et al. / The Atacama Cosmology Telescope : A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and Its Implications for Structure Growth. In: Astrophysical Journal. 2024 ; Vol. 962, No. 2.

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