A redshift survey towards the cosmic microwave background cold spot

Details A redshift survey towards the cosmic microwave background cold spot A redshift survey towards the cosmic microwave background cold spot

May 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010mnras.404l..69b&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 404, Issue 1, pp. L69-L73.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galaxies: Distances And Redshifts, Cosmic Microwave Background, Large-Scale Structure Of Universe

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We have carried out a redshift survey using the VIMOS spectrograph on the VLT towards the cosmic microwave background cold spot. A possible cause of the cold spot is the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect imprinted by an extremely large void (hundreds of Mpc in linear dimension) at intermediate or low redshifts. The redshift distribution of over seven hundred z < 1 emission-line galaxies drawn from an I-band flux limited sample of galaxies in the direction of the cold spot shows no evidence of a gap on scales of Δz >~ 0.05 as would be expected if such a void existed at 0.35 < z < 1. There are troughs in the redshift distribution on smaller scales (Δz ~ 0.01) indicating that smaller scale voids may connect regions separated by several degrees towards the cold spot. A comparison of this distribution with that generated from similarly sized subsamples drawn from widely spaced pointings of the VVDS survey does not indicate that the redshift distribution towards the cold spot is anomalous or that these small gaps can be uniquely attributed to real voids.

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