Title:	Probing the circumgalactic baryons through cross-correlations
Authors:	Singh, Priyanka Majumdar, Subhabrata Nath, Biman B. Refregier, Alexandre Silk, Joseph
Issue Date:	21-Feb-2016
Publisher:	Oxford University Press for the Royal Astronomical Society
Citation:	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016, Vol. 456, p1495-1507
Abstract:	We study the cross-correlation of distribution of galaxies, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) and X-ray power spectra of galaxies from current and upcoming surveys and show these to be excellent probes of the nature, i.e. extent, evolution and energetics, of the circumgalactic medium (CGM). The SZ-galaxy cross-power spectrum, especially at large multipoles, depends on the steepness of the pressure profile of the CGM. This property of the SZ signal can, thus, be used to constrain the pressure profile of the CGM. The X-ray cross-power spectrum also has a similar shape. However, it is much more sensitive to the underlying density profile. We forecast the detectability of the cross-correlated galaxy distribution, SZ and X-ray signals by combining South Pole Telescope-Dark Energy Survey (SPT-DES) and eROSITA-DES/eROSITA-LSST (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array-Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) surveys, respectively. We find that, for the SPT-DES survey, the signal-to-noise ratio peaks at high mass and redshift with signal-to-noise ratio ∼9 around Mh ∼ 1013 h−1 M⊙ and z ∼ 1.5–2 for flat density and temperature profiles. The signal-to-noise ratio peaks at ∼6(12) for the eROSITA-DES (eROSITA-LSST) surveys. We also perform a Fisher matrix analysis to find the constraint on the gas fraction in the CGM in the presence or absence of an unknown redshift evolution of the gas fraction. Finally, we demonstrate that the cross-correlated SZ-galaxy and X-ray-galaxy power spectrum can be used as powerful probes of the CGM energetics and potentially discriminate between different feedback models recently proposed in the literature; for example, one can distinguish a ‘no active galactic nuclei feedback’ scenario from a CGM energized by ‘fixed-velocity hot winds’ at greater than 3σ.
Description:	Open Access
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/6460
ISSN:	0035-8711 1365-2966 - (online)
Alternative Location:	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.456.1495S http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2750
Copyright:	2016 The authors & the Royal Astronomical Society
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (A&A)

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