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The SZ flux-mass (Y-M) relation at low halo masses: improvements with symbolic regression and strong constraints on baryonic feedback
Digvijay Wadekar, Leander Thiele, J. Colin Hill, Shivam Pandey, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, David N. Spergel, Miles Cranmer, Daisuke Nagai, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Shirley Ho, Lars Hernquist
Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and supernovae can affect measurements of integrated SZ flux of halos (Y_(SZ)) from CMB surveys, and cause its relation with the halo mass (Y_(SZ)-M) to deviate from the self-similar power-law prediction of the virial theorem. We perform a comprehensive study of such deviations using CAMELS, a suite of hydrodynamic simulations with extensive variations in feedback prescriptions. We use a combination of two machine learning tools (random forest and symbolic regression) to search for analogues of the Y-M relation which are more robust to feedback processes for low masses (M≲10¹⁴ h⁻¹ M_⊙); we find that simply replacing Y→Y(1+M_*/M_(gas)) in the relation makes it remarkably self-similar. This could serve as a robust multiwavelength mass proxy for low-mass clusters and galaxy groups. Our methodology can also be generally useful to improve the domain of validity of other astrophysical scaling relations. We also forecast that measurements of the Y-M relation could provide percent-level constraints on certain combinations of feedback parameters and/or rule out a major part of the parameter space of supernova and AGN feedback models used in current state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations. Our results can be useful for using upcoming SZ surveys (e.g., SO, CMB-S4) and galaxy surveys (e.g., DESI and Rubin) to constrain the nature of baryonic feedback. Finally, we find that the an alternative relation, Y-M_*, provides complementary information on feedback than Y-M
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