Accretion flows in early-type galaxies and CMB experiments

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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7 pages, 3 figures, accepted to MNRAS

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10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08101.x

We investigate the possible contribution from the emission of accretion flows around supermassive black holes in early type galaxies to current measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at radio frequencies. We consider a range of luminosities suggested by targeted radio observations and accretion models and compute the residual contribution of these sources to the spectrum and bispectrum of the observed CMB maps. As for high-resolution CMB experiments, we find that the unresolved component of these sources could make up to ~40-50% of the observed CBI and BIMA power spectrum at l > 2000. As a consequence, the inferred sigma_8^{SZ} value could be biased high by up to 6-7%. As for all sky experiments, we find that the contribution of accretion-flow sources to the WMAP bispectrum is at the 2-3 per cent level at most. At the flux limit that Planck will achieve, however, these sources may contribute up to 15 per cent of the bispectrum in the 60-100 GHz frequency range. Moreover, Planck should detect hundreds of these sources in the 30-300 GHz frequency window. These detections, possibly coupled with galaxy type confirmation from optical surveys, will allow number counts to put tighter constraints on early-type galaxies radio luminosity and accretion flows properties. These sources may also contribute up to the 30 per cent level to the residual radio sources power spectrum in future high-resolution SZ surveys (like ACT or APEX) reaching mJy flux limits.

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