The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Measuring radio galaxy bias through cross-correlation with lensing

Rupert Allison; Sam N. Lindsay; Blake D. Sherwin; Francesco De Bernardis; J. Richard Bond; Erminia Calabrese; Mark J. Devlin; Joanna Dunkley; Patricio Gallardo; Shawn Henderson; Adam D. Hincks; Renée Hlozek; Matt Jarvis; Arthur Kosowsky; Thibaut Louis; Mathew Madhavacheril; Jeff Mcmahon; Kavilan Moodley; Sigurd Naess; Laura Newburgh; Michael D. Niemack; Lyman A. Page; Bruce Partridge; Neelima Sehgal; David N. Spergel; Suzanne T. Staggs; Alexander Van Engelen; Edward J. Wollack

doi:10.1093/mnras/stv991

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Measuring radio galaxy bias through cross-correlation with lensing

Rupert Allison
, Sam N. Lindsay
, Blake D. Sherwin
, Francesco De Bernardis
, J. Richard Bond
, Erminia Calabrese
, Mark J. Devlin
, Joanna Dunkley
, Patricio Gallardo
, Shawn Henderson
, Adam D. Hincks
, Renée Hlozek
, Matt Jarvis
, Arthur Kosowsky
, Thibaut Louis
, Mathew Madhavacheril
, Jeff Mcmahon
, Kavilan Moodley
, Sigurd Naess
, Laura Newburgh

Michael D. Niemack, Lyman A. Page, Bruce Partridge, Neelima Sehgal, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Alexander Van Engelen, Edward J. Wollack

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We correlate the positions of radio galaxies in the FIRST survey with the cosmic microwave background lensing convergence estimated from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope over 470 deg² to determine the bias of these galaxies. We remove optically cross-matched sources below redshift z = 0.2 to preferentially select active galactic nuclei (AGN). We measure the angular cross-power spectrum C_l^kg at 4.4σ significance in the multipole range 100 < l < 3000, corresponding to physical scales within ≈2-60 Mpc at an effective redshift z_eff = 1.5. Modelling the AGN population with a redshift-dependent bias, the cross-spectrum is well fitted by the Planck best-fitting Λ cold dark matter cosmological model. Fixing the cosmology and assumed redshift distribution of sources, we fit for the overall bias model normalization, finding b(z_eff) = 3.5 ± 0.8 for the full galaxy sample and b(z_eff) = 4.0 ± 1.1(3.0 ± 1.1) for sources brighter (fainter) than 2.5 mJy. This measurement characterizes the typical halo mass of radio-loud AGN: we find log(M_halo/M_⊙) = 13.6_-0.4^+0.3.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	849-858
Number of pages	10
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	451
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv991
State	Published - May 1 2015

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Large-scale structure of Universe
Radio continuum: galaxies

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Allison, R., Lindsay, S. N., Sherwin, B. D., De Bernardis, F., Bond, J. R., Calabrese, E., Devlin, M. J., Dunkley, J., Gallardo, P., Henderson, S., Hincks, A. D., Hlozek, R., Jarvis, M., Kosowsky, A., Louis, T., Madhavacheril, M., Mcmahon, J., Moodley, K., Naess, S., ... Wollack, E. J. (2015). The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Measuring radio galaxy bias through cross-correlation with lensing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451(1), 849-858. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv991

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