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Unified and Consistent Structure Growth Measurements from Joint ACT, SPT, and Planck CMB Lensing

  • ACT + SPT-3G Collaborations
  • Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • Stanford University
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of California at Davis
  • California Institute of Technology
  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • The University of Chicago
  • University of Melbourne
  • Princeton University
  • Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
  • Cornell University
  • Université Paris Cité
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • University of Toronto
  • Cardiff University
  • University of Geneva
  • University of California at Riverside
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba
  • McGill University
  • Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
  • Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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Abstract

We present the tightest cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing constraints to date on the growth of structure by combining CMB lensing measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), the South Pole Telescope (SPT), and Planck. Each of these surveys individually provides lensing measurements with similarly high statistical power, achieving signal-To-noise ratios of approximately 40. The combined lensing band powers represent the most precise CMB lensing power spectrum measurement to date with a signal-To-noise ratio of 61 and an amplitude of Alensrecon=1.025±0.017 with respect to the theory prediction from the best-fit CMB Planck-ACT cosmology. The band powers from all three lensing datasets, analyzed jointly, yield a 1.6% measurement of the parameter combination S8CMBLσ8(ωm/0.3)0.25=0.825-0.013+0.015. Including dark energy spectroscopic instrument baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data improves the constraint on the amplitude of matter fluctuations to σ8=0.829±0.009 (a 1.1% determination). When combining with uncalibrated supernovae from Pantheon+, we present a 4% sound-horizon-independent estimate of H0=66.4±2.5 km s-1 Mpc-1. The joint lensing constraints on structure growth and present-day Hubble rate are fully consistent with a ΛCDM model fit to the primary CMB data from Planck and ACT. While the precise upper limit is sensitive to the choice of data and underlying model assumptions, when varying the neutrino mass sum within the ΛCDM cosmological model, the combination of primary CMB, BAO, and CMB lensing drives the probable upper limit for the mass sum towards lower values, comparable to the minimum mass prior required by neutrino oscillation experiments.

Original languageEnglish
Article number021001
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume136
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 16 2026

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