Correlation of CMB with large-scale structure: II. Weak lensing

Details Correlation of CMB with large-scale structure: II. Weak lensing Correlation of CMB with large-scale structure: II. Weak lensing

2008-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/0801.0644v2

Phys.Rev.D78:043520,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

34 pages, 6 figures, matches PRD accepted version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.043520

We investigate the correlation of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with several tracers of large-scale structure, including luminous red galaxies (LRGs), quasars, and radio sources. The lensing field is reconstructed based on the CMB maps from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite; the LRGs and quasars are observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS); and the radio sources are observed in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). Combining all three large-scale structure samples, we find evidence for a positive cross-correlation at the $2.5\sigma$ level ($1.8\sigma$ for the SDSS samples and $2.1\sigma$ for NVSS); the cross-correlation amplitude is $1.06\pm 0.42$ times that expected for the WMAP cosmological parameters. Our analysis extends other recent analyses in that we carefully determine bias weighted redshift distribution of the sources, which is needed for a meaningful cosmological interpretation of the detected signal. We investigate contamination of the signal by Galactic emission, extragalactic radio and infrared sources, thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects, and the Rees-Sciama effect, and find all of them to be negligible.

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