Biasing from galaxy trough and peak profiles with the DES Y3 redMaGiC galaxies and the weak lensing mass map

Hang, Q.; Jeffrey, N.; Whiteway, L.; Lahav, O.; Williamson, J.; Gatti, M.; DeRose, J.; Kovacs, A.; Alarcon, A.; Amon, A.; Bechtol, K.; Becker, M. R.; Bernstein, G. M.; Campos, A.; Carnero Rosell, A.; Kind, M. Carrasco; Chang, C.; Chen, R.; Choi, A.; Dodelson, S.; Doux, C.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Elvin-Poole, J.; Everett, S.; Ferté, A.; Gruen, D.; Gruendl, R. A.; Harrison, I.; Jarvis, M.; MacCrann, N.; McCullough, J.; Myles, J.; Navarro-Alsina, A.; Pandey, S.; Prat, J.; Raveri, M.; Rollins, R. P.; Rykoff, E. S.; Sánchez, C.; Secco, L. F.; Sevilla-Noarbe, I.; Sheldon, E.; Shin, T.; Troxel, M. A.; Tutusaus, I.; Wechsler, R. H.; Yanny, B.; Yin, B.; Aguena, M.; Alves, O.; Andrade-Oliveira, F.; Bacon, D.; Blazek, J.; Bocquet, S.; Brooks, D.; Carretero, J.; Cawthon, R.; Crocce, M.; da Costa, L. N.; Pereira, M. E. da Silva; Davis, T. M.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. T.; Doel, P.; Flaugher, B.; Frieman, J.; Gutierrez, G.; Hinton, S. R.; Hollowood, D. L.; Honscheid, K.; Kuehn, K.; Lee, S.; Marshall, J. L.; Mena-Fernández, J.; Miquel, R.; Malagón, A. A. Plazas; Porredon, A.; Roodman, A.; Samuroff, S.; Sanchez, E.; Cid, D. Sanchez; Smith, M.; Suchyta, E.; Swanson, M. E. C.; To, C.; Vikram, V.
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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2026
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We measure the correspondence between the distribution of galaxies and matter around troughs and peaks in the projected galaxy density, by comparing redMaGiC galaxies ($0.15< z<0.65$) to weak lensing mass maps from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y3 data release. We obtain stacked profiles, as a function of angle $\theta$, of the galaxy density contrast $\delta _{\rm g}$ and the weak lensing convergence $\kappa$, in the vicinity of these identified troughs and peaks, referred to as 'void' and 'cluster' superstructures. The ratio of the profiles depend mildly on $\theta$, indicating good consistency between the profile shapes. We model the amplitude of this ratio using a function $F(\boldsymbol{\eta }, \theta)$ that depends on cosmological parameters $\boldsymbol{\eta }$, scaled by the galaxy bias. We construct templates of $F(\boldsymbol{\eta }, \theta)$ using a suite of N-body (Gower Street) simulations forward-modelled with DES Y3-like noise and systematics. We discuss and quantify the caveats of using a linear bias model to create galaxy maps from the simulation dark matter shells. We measure the galaxy bias in three lens tomographic bins (near to far): $2.32^{+0.86}_{-0.27}, 2.18^{+0.86}_{-0.23}, 1.86^{+0.82}_{-0.23}$ for voids, and $2.46^{+0.73}_{-0.27}, 3.55^{+0.96}_{-0.55}, 4.27^{+0.36}_{-1.14}$ for clusters, assuming the best-fitting Planck cosmology. Similar values with $\sim 0.1\sigma$ shifts are obtained assuming the mean DES Y3 cosmology. The biases from troughs and peaks are broadly consistent, although a larger bias is derived for peaks, which is also larger than those measured from the DES Y3 $3\times 2$-point analysis. This method shows an interesting avenue for measuring field-level bias that can be applied to future lensing surveys.