A clustering-based self-calibration of the richness-to-mass relation of CAMIRA galaxy clusters out to z≈1.1 in the Hyper Suprime-Cam survey

Abstract

We perform a self-calibration of the richness-to-mass (N-M) relation of CAMIRA galaxy clusters with richness N≥15 at redshift 0.2≤ z<1.1 by modeling redshift-space two-point correlation functions. These correlation functions are cc of CAMIRA clusters, the auto-correlation function gg of the CMASS galaxies spectroscopically observed in the BOSS survey, and the cross-correlation function cg between these two samples. We focus on constraining the normalization AN of the N-M relation in a forward-modeling approach, carefully accounting for the redshift-space distortion, the Finger-of-God effect, and the uncertainty in photometric redshifts of CAMIRA clusters. The modeling also takes into account the projection effect on the halo bias of CAMIRA clusters. The parameter constraints are shown to be unbiased according to validation tests using a large set of mock catalogs constructed from N-body simulations. At the pivotal mass M500=1014h-1M and the pivotal redshift zpiv = 0.6, the resulting normalization AN is constrained as 13.8+5.8-4.2, 13.2+3.4-2.7, and 11.9+3.0-1.9 by modeling cc, cc+cg, and cc + cg + gg, with average uncertainties at levels of 36\%, 23\%, and 21\%, respectively. We find that the resulting AN is statistically consistent with those independently obtained from weak-lensing magnification and from a joint analysis of shear and cluster abundance, with a preference for a lower value at a level of 1.9σ. This implies that the absolute mass scale of CAMIRA clusters inferred from clustering is mildly higher than those from the independent methods. [abridged]

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