Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-09-10
Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 083518
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 8 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.083518
We discuss the non-linear extension to the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect (ISW) resulting from the divergence of the large scale structure momentum density field. The non-linear ISW effect leads to an increase in the total ISW contribution by roughly two orders of magnitude at l ~ 1000. This increase, however, is still below the cosmic variance limit of the primary anisotropies; at further small angular scales, secondary effects such as gravitational lensing and the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect dominates the non-linear ISW power spectrum. We show this second-order non-linear ISW contribution is effectively same as the contribution previously described as a lensing effect due to the transverse motion of gravitational lenses and well known as the Kaiser-Stebbins effect under the context of cosmic strings. Due to geometrical considerations, there is no significant three point correlation function, or a bispectrum, between the linear ISW effects and its non-linear extension. The non-linear ISW contribution can be potentially used as a probe of the transverse velocity of dark matter halos such as galaxy clusters. Due to the small contribution to temperature fluctuations, of order few tenths of micro Kelvin, however, extrating useful measurements on velocities will be challenging.
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