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SPT-3G D1: Quadratic-Estimator CMB Lensing Reconstruction and Cosmology
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Abstract
We present a map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential reconstructed from observations taken during the 2019 and 2020 seasons with the third-generation camera on the South Pole Telescope (SPT), covering the $1500\,{\rm deg}^{2}$ SPT-3G Main field, referred to as the SPT-3G D1 dataset. From the multi-frequency temperature and polarization data, we reconstruct the CMB lensing field using a quadratic estimator that jointly accounts for the $T$, $E$, and $B$ fields and their covariance. The resulting lensing map is dominated by polarization information for $L \lesssim 600$ and provides the highest signal-to-noise measurement per mode reported to date. With nuisance parameters fixed to their best-fit values, we measure a lensing amplitude consistent with unity at $2\%$ precision relative to the $Λ$CDM model that best fits the combined Planck, ACT DR6, and SPT-3G D1 $TT/TE/EE$ likelihoods (${\rm CMB}_{\rm SPA}$). We further measure the structure-growth parameter $σ_{8}Ω_{\rm m}^{0.25}$ to be $0.6046\pm0.0096$ from the SPT-3G D1 lensing spectrum alone and $0.6020\pm0.0084$ when combined with ACT DR6 and Planck PR4 CMB lensing. By further combining this with ${\rm CMB}_{\rm SPA}$ and the latest DESI DR2 BAO data, we obtain $\sum m_ν < 0.072\,\mathrm{eV}$ (95% C.L.) when allowing the neutrino mass to vary within $Λ$CDM. Compared with previous work, the better agreement of our measurement with DESI DR2 BAO yields both this relaxed upper bound and reduced ($\mathord{\sim}2σ$) preferences for nonzero spatial curvature and for deviations of $(w_0,w_a)$ from the $Λ$CDM expectation. When we combine CMB lensing with the DES Y3 3$\times$2pt analysis, we obtain $S_{8}=0.811\pm0.011$, corresponding to a $1.4\%$ constraint on the late-time clustering amplitude. This precision is competitive with that obtained from the primary CMB within $Λ$CDM.
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