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Precision kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich measurements across halo mass and redshift with DESI DR2 and ACT DR6. I. Luminous red galaxies

F. J. Qu1,2,3,*, B. Ried Guachalla1,2,3, E. Schaan1,2,3, B. Hadzhiyska4,5, S. Ferraro6,7, J. Aguilar8, S. Ahlen9, A. Baleato Lizancos7,6, D. Bianchi10,11 et al. (DESI Collaboration)

D. Bianchi10,11, D. Brooks12, R. Canning13, F. J. Castander14,15, E. Chaussidon8, T. Claybaugh8, A. Cuceu8, A. de la Macorra16, B. Dey17,18, P. Doel12, A. Font-Ribera19,20, J. E. Forero-Romero21,22, E. Gaztañaga14,13,15, S. Gontcho A. Gontcho23, G. Gutierrez24, H. K. Herrera-Alcantar25,26, K. Honscheid27,28,29, C. Howlett30, D. Huterer31,32, M. Ishak33, R. Kehoe34, T. Kisner8, A. Kremin8, O. Lahav12, M. Landriau8, L. Le Guillou35, M. E. Levi8, M. Manera36,20, A. Meisner37, R. Miquel19,20, S. Nadathur13, J. A. Newman18, W. J. Percival38,39,40, I. Pérez-Ràfols41, G. Rossi42, L. Samushia43,44,45, E. Sanchez46, E. F. Schlafly47, D. Schlegel8, M. Schubnell31,32, H. Seo48, J. Silber8, D. Sprayberry37, G. Tarlé32, B. A. Weaver37, and R. Zhou8 (DESI Collaboration)

  • 1Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, Stanford University, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 3SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
  • 4Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, United Kingdom
  • 5Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, United Kingdom
  • 6Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 7Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 8Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 9Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 USA
  • 10Dipartimento di Fisica “Aldo Pontremoli,” Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy
  • 11INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Brera 28, 20122 Milano, Italy
  • 12Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
  • 13Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Dennis Sciama Building, Portsmouth, PO1 3FX, United Kingdom
  • 14Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), c/ Esteve Terradas 1, Edifici RDIT, Campus PMT-UPC, 08860 Castelldefels, Spain
  • 15Institute of Space Sciences, ICE-CSIC, Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans s/n, 08913 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
  • 16Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito de la Investigación Científica, Ciudad Universitaria, Cd. de México C. P. 04510, México
  • 17Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada
  • 18Department of Physics and Astronomy and Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Center (PITT PACC), University of Pittsburgh, 3941 O’Hara Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
  • 19Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
  • 20Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Edifici Cn, Campus UAB, 08193, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
  • 21Departamento de Física, Universidad de los Andes, Cra. 1 No. 18A-10, Edificio Ip, CP 111711, Bogotá, Colombia
  • 22Observatorio Astronómico, Universidad de los Andes, Cra. 1 No. 18A-10, Edificio H, CP 111711 Bogotá, Colombia
  • 23University of Virginia, Department of Astronomy, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
  • 24Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, PO Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
  • 25Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, 98 bis boulevard Arago 75014 Paris, France
  • 26IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • 27Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
  • 28Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
  • 29The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210 Ohio, USA
  • 30School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
  • 31Department of Physics, University of Michigan, 450 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
  • 32University of Michigan, 500 South State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
  • 33Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA
  • 34Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
  • 35Sorbonne Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), FR-75005 Paris, France
  • 36Departament de Física, Serra Húnter, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
  • 37NSF NOIRLab, 950 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA
  • 38Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue W, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
  • 39Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada
  • 40Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
  • 41Departament de Física, EEBE, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, c/Eduard Maristany 10, 08930 Barcelona, Spain
  • 42Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sejong University, 209 Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea
  • 43Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Tbilisi, GE-0179, Georgia
  • 44Department of Physics, Kansas State University, 116 Cardwell Hall, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
  • 45Faculty of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Ilia State University, 0194 Tbilisi, Georgia
  • 46CIEMAT, Avenida Complutense 40, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
  • 47Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
  • 48Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, 139 University Terrace, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA

  • *Contact author: jq247@cantab.ac.uk

Phys. Rev. D 114, 083540 – Published 29 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/wt8f-ftbt

Abstract

We present the most precise measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (kSZ) effect around luminous red galaxies to date, detecting the signal at 18σ significance in both harmonic and configuration space. Our analysis cross-correlates 2.4 million spectroscopic LRGs from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) DR2 sample with data release 6 (DR6) of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). We develop a novel harmonic-space cross-correlation approach using momentum-weighted kSZ templates, yielding nearly uncorrelated bandpowers within a framework consistent with other large-scale structure analyses. By incorporating the LRG halo occupation distribution (HOD) and its uncertainty, we convert measured galaxy gas profiles into halo gas profiles and provide generalized Navarro-Frenk-White (GNFW) fitting profiles, providing empirical targets for tuning feedback efficiency in hydrodynamical simulations and for baryonic modeling in large-scale structure analyses. We find strong evidence that gas profiles do not trace dark matter, providing direct evidence for gas redistribution beyond gravitational collapse. Comparing to hydrodynamical simulations, our measurements favor feedback efficiencies exceeding those in the Battaglia profile, suggesting more efficient gas ejection in group-scale halos than previously predicted. Splitting by redshift, we detect the kSZ signal at SNR≈5–10 in each of four bins and find amplitude evolution consistent with the expected decline in mean halo mass at fixed comoving number density. Splitting by stellar mass, we study the scaling of kSZ amplitude with galaxy properties. Together with BGS and ELG measurements in paper II, these results span 0.1≲z≲1.6 across three galaxy populations, demonstrating the potential of spectroscopic kSZ to map circumgalactic gas and constrain baryonic feedback.

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