Optical Depths from the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT DR6 and DESI DR1 Spectroscopic Galaxies and Optically-Selected Clusters

arXiv:2609.08939 · astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-08 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-08

Updated: 2026-09-09

Comments: 32 pages, 22 figures, submitted to Physical Review D

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Aperture — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR6 — 1× in this paper
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• DESI DR1 Bright Galaxy Sample — 1× in this paper

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