Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-01-26
Astron.Astrophys. 456 (2006) 819
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20064915
We reanalyse Cosmic Microwave Background data from experiments probing both large and small scales. We assume that measured anisotropies are due not only to primary fluctuations but also, especially at small scales, to secondary effects (namely the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect) and possible point source contaminations. We first consider primary and secondary anisotropies only. For the first time in such analyses, the cosmological dependence of secondary fluctuations is fully taken into account. We show in that case that a higher value of the normalisation $\sigma\_8$ is preferred, as found by previous studies, but also higher values of the optical depth $\tau$ and power spectrum index $n\_s$ are needed. In the second part of our analysis, we further include possible contaminations from unresolved and unremoved point sources. Under these considerations, we discuss the effects on the cosmological parameters. We further obtain the best combination of relative contributions of the three kinds of sources to the measured microwave power on small scales at each frequency. Our method allows us to simultaneously obtain cosmological parameters and explain the so-called small scale power excess in a consistent way.
Aghanim Nabila
Douspis Marian
Langer Mathieu
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