Kavli Affiliate: David N. Spergel
| First 5 Authors: Naomi Clare Robertson, Cristóbal Sifón, Marika Asgari, Nicholas Battaglia, Maciej Bilicki
| Summary:
We present weak gravitational lensing measurements of a sample of 157
clusters within the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), detected with a $>5sigma$
thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) signal by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
(ACT). Using a halo-model approach we constrain the average total cluster mass,
$M_{rm WL}$, accounting for the ACT cluster selection function of the full
sample. We find that the SZ cluster mass estimate $M_{rm SZ}$, which was
calibrated using X-ray observations, is biased with $M_{rm SZ}/M_{rm WL} =
(1-b_{rm SZ}) = 0.65pm 0.05$. Separating the sample into six mass bins, we
find no evidence of a strong mass-dependency for the mass bias, $(1-b_{rm
SZ})$. Adopting this ACT-KiDS SZ mass-calibration would bring the Planck SZ
cluster count into agreement with the counts expected from the {it Planck}
cosmic microwave background $Lambda$CDM cosmological model, although it should
be noted that the cluster sample considered in this work has a lower average
mass $M_{rm SZ, uncor} = 3.64 times 10^{14} M_{odot}$ compared to the Planck
cluster sample which has an average mass in the range $M_{rm SZ, uncor} =
(5.5-8.5) times 10^{14} M_{odot}$, depending on the sub-sample used.
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