Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-09-03
New Astron.Rev. 47 (2003) 855-858
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in New Astronomy Reviews, Proceedings of the CMBNET Meeting, 20-21 February, 2003, Oxford, UK
Scientific paper
We cross-correlate the recent CMB WMAP 1 year data with the diffuse soft X-ray background map of ROSAT. We look for common signatures due to galaxy clusters (SZ effect in CMB, bremsstrahlung in X-rays) by cross-correlating the two maps in real and in Fourier space. We do not find any significant correlation and we explore the different reasons for this lack of correlation. The most likely candidates are the possibility that we live in a low $\sigma _8$ universe ($\sigma_8 < 0.9$) and/or systematic effects in the data especially in the diffuse X-ray maps which may suffer from significant cluster signal subtraction during the point source removal process.
Diego Jose Maria
Silk Joseph
Sliwa W.
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