Hotchkiss, S, Nadathur, S, Gottlöber, S, Iliev, I T, Knebe, A, Watson, W A and Yepes, G (2014) The Jubilee ISW Project - II. Observed and simulated imprints of voids and superclusters on the cosmic microwave background. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446 (2). pp. 1321-1334. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

We examine the integrated Sachs–Wolfe (ISW) imprint of voids and superclusters on the cosmic microwave background. We first study results from the Jubilee N-body simulation. From Jubilee, we obtain the full-sky ISW signal from structures out to redshift z = 1.4 and a mock luminous red galaxy catalogue. We confirm that the expected signal in the concordance cold dark matter (CDM) model is very small and likely to always be much smaller than the anisotropies arising at the last scattering surface. Any current detections of such an imprint must, therefore, predominantly arise from something other than an ISW effect in a CDM universe. Using the simulation as a guide, we then look for the signal using a catalogue of voids and superclusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We find a result that is consistent with the CDM model, i.e. a signal consistent with zero.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Research Centres and Groups:	Astronomy Centre
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Depositing User:	Billy Wichaidit
Date Deposited:	06 Jul 2017 11:27
Last Modified:	06 Jul 2017 11:31
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/69076

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