We measure the cross-correlation between redMaGiC galaxies selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) year 1 data and gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) reconstructed from South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck data over $1289{\mathrm{deg}}^2$. When combining measurements across multiple galaxy redshift bins spanning the redshift range of $0.15<z<0.90$, we reject the hypothesis of no correlation at $19.9\sigma$ significance. When removing small-scale data points where thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich signal and nonlinear galaxy bias could potentially bias our results, the detection significance is reduced to $9.9\sigma$. We perform a joint analysis of galaxy-CMB lensing cross-correlations and galaxy clustering to constrain cosmology, finding ${\mathrm{\Omega }}_{\mathrm{m}}=0.276_{-0.030}^{+0.029}$ and $S_8={\sigma }_8\sqrt{{\mathrm{\Omega }}_{\mathrm{m}}/0.3}=0.800_{-0.094}^{+0.090}$. We also perform two alternate analyses aimed at constraining only the growth rate of cosmic structure as a function of redshift, finding consistency with predictions from the concordance $\mathrm{\Lambda }\mathrm{CDM}$ model. The measurements presented here are part of a joint cosmological analysis that combines galaxy clustering, galaxy lensing and CMB lensing using data from DES, SPT and Planck.

• Received 2 November 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.043501