Y.-C. Cai
A possible cold imprint of voids on the microwave background radiation
Cai, Y.-C.; Neyrinck, M.; Szapudi, I.; Cole, S.; Frenk, C.S.
Authors
M. Neyrinck
I. Szapudi
Professor Shaun Cole shaun.cole@durham.ac.uk
Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology
C.S. Frenk
Abstract
We measure the average temperature decrement on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) produced by voids selected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 spectroscopic redshift galaxy catalog, spanning redshifts 0 < z < 0.44. We find an imprint amplitude between 2.6 and 2.9 μK as viewed through a compensated top-hat filter scaled to the radius of each void, we assess the statistical significance of the imprint at ~2σ, and we make crucial use of N-body simulations to calibrate our analysis. As expected, we find that large voids produce cold spots on the CMB through the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect. However, we also find that small voids in the halo density field produce hot spots, because they reside in contracting, larger-scale overdense regions. This is an important effect to consider when stacking CMB imprints from voids of different radii. We have found that the same filter radius that gives the largest ISW signal in simulations also yields close to the largest detected signal in the observations. However, although it is low in significance, our measured signal has a much higher amplitude than expected from ISW in the concordance ΛCDM universe. The discrepancy is also at the ~2σ level. We have demonstrated that our result is robust against the varying of thresholds over a wide range.
Citation
Cai, Y., Neyrinck, M., Szapudi, I., Cole, S., & Frenk, C. (2014). A possible cold imprint of voids on the microwave background radiation. Astrophysical Journal, 786(2), Article 110. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/786/2/110
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | May 10, 2014 |
Deposit Date | May 14, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | May 20, 2014 |
Journal | Astrophysical Journal |
Print ISSN | 0004-637X |
Electronic ISSN | 1538-4357 |
Publisher | American Astronomical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 786 |
Issue | 2 |
Article Number | 110 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/786/2/110 |
Keywords | Cosmic background radiation, Cosmology: observations, Large-scale structure of universe, Methods: statistical. |
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