Prospects for Constraining Cosmology with the Extragalactic Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature

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2001-08-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0108260v1

Phys.Rev. D64 (2001) 123002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages 2 Figures, PRD Submitted

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.64.123002

Observers have demonstrated that it is now feasible to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature at high redshifts. We explore the possible constraints on cosmology which might ultimately be derived from such measurements. Besides providing a consistency check on standard and alternative cosmologies, possibilities include: constraints on the inhomogeneity and anisotropy of the universe at intermediate redshift $z ^<_\sim 10$; an independent probe of peculiar motions with respect to the Hubble flow; and constraining the epoch of reionization. We argue that the best possibility is as a probe of peculiar motions. We show, however, that the current measurement uncertainty ($\Delta T= \pm 0.002 $K) in the local present absolute CMB temperature imposes intrinsic limits on the use of such CMB temperature measurements as a cosmological probe. At best, anisotropies at intermediate redshift could only be constrained at a level of $^>_\sim 0.1%$ and peculiar motions could only be determined to an uncertainty of $^>_\sim 311$ km s$^{-1}$. If the high $z$ CMB temperature can only be measured with a precision comparable to the uncertainty of the local interstellar CMB temperature, then peculiar motions could be determined to an uncertainty of $1101 (1+z)^{-1} [\Delta T_{CMB}(z)/0.01 K] km s^{-1}$.

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