- Kim, Joshua;
- Sailer, Noah;
- Madhavacheril, Mathew S;
- Ferraro, Simone;
- Abril-Cabezas, Irene;
- Aguilar, Jessica Nicole;
- Ahlen, Steven;
- Bond, J Richard;
- Brooks, David;
- Burtin, Etienne;
- Calabrese, Erminia;
- Chen, Shi-Fan;
- Choi, Steve K;
- Claybaugh, Todd;
- Darwish, Omar;
- de la Macorra, Axel;
- DeRose, Joseph;
- Devlin, Mark;
- Dey, Arjun;
- Doel, Peter;
- Dunkley, Jo;
- Embil-Villagra, Carmen;
- Farren, Gerrit S;
- Font-Ribera, Andreu;
- Forero-Romero, Jaime E;
- Gaztañaga, Enrique;
- Gluscevic, Vera;
- Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A;
- Guy, Julien;
- Honscheid, Klaus;
- Howlett, Cullan;
- Kirkby, David;
- Kisner, Theodore;
- Kremin, Anthony;
- Landriau, Martin;
- Le Guillou, Laurent;
- Levi, Michael E;
- MacCrann, Niall;
- Manera, Marc;
- Marques, Gabriela A;
- Meisner, Aaron;
- Miquel, Ramon;
- Moodley, Kavilan;
- Moustakas, John;
- Newburgh, Laura B;
- Newman, Jeffrey A;
- Niz, Gustavo;
- Orlowski-Scherer, John;
- Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie;
- Percival, Will J;
- Prada, Francisco;
- Qu, Frank J;
- Rossi, Graziano;
- Sanchez, Eusebio;
- Schaan, Emmanuel;
- Schlafly, Edward F;
- Schlegel, David;
- Schubnell, Michael;
- Sehgal, Neelima;
- Seo, Hee-Jung;
- Shaikh, Shabbir;
- Sherwin, Blake D;
- Sifón, Cristóbal;
- Sprayberry, David;
- Staggs, Suzanne T;
- Tarlé, Gregory;
- van Engelen, Alexander;
- Weaver, Benjamin Alan;
- Wenzl, Lukas;
- White, Martin;
- Wollack, Edward J;
- Yèche, Christophe;
- Zou, Hu
We present a high-significance cross-correlation of CMB lensing maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) with luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Survey spectroscopically calibrated by DESI. We detect this cross-correlation at a significance of 38σ; combining our measurement with the Planck Public Release 4 (PR4) lensing map, we detect the cross-correlation at 50σ. Fitting this jointly with the galaxy auto-correlation power spectrum to break the galaxy bias degeneracy with σ 8, we perform a tomographic analysis in four LRG redshift bins spanning 0.4 ≤ z ≤ 1.0 to constrain the amplitude of matter density fluctuations through the parameter combination S 8× = σ 8 (Ωm / 0.3)0.4. Prior to unblinding, we confirm with extragalactic simulations that foreground biases are negligible and carry out a comprehensive suite of null and consistency tests. Using a hybrid effective field theory (HEFT) model that allows scales as small as k max = 0.6 h/ Mpc, we obtain a 3.3% constraint on S 8× = σ 8 (Ωm / 0.3)0.4 = 0.792+0.024-0.028 from ACT data, as well as constraints on S 8×(z) that probe structure formation over cosmic time. Our result is consistent with the early-universe extrapolation from primary CMB anisotropies measured by Planck PR4 within 1.2σ. Jointly fitting ACT and Planck lensing cross-correlations we obtain a 2.7% constraint of S 8× = 0.776+0.019-0.021, which is consistent with the Planck early-universe extrapolation within 2.1σ, with the lowest redshift bin showing the largest difference in mean. The latter may motivate further CMB lensing tomography analyses at z < 0.6 to assess the impact of potential systematics or the consistency of the ΛCDM model over cosmic time.