Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-10-15
Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 043525
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, 12 figures, submitted to PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.043525
We present a 2.5 sigma detection of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect and discuss the constraints it places on cosmological parameters. We cross-correlate microwave temperature maps from the WMAP satellite with a 4000 deg^2 luminous red galaxy (LRG) overdensity map measured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Accurate photometric redshifts allow us to perform a reliable auto-correlation analysis of the LRGs, eliminating the uncertainty in the galaxy bias, and combined with cross correlation signal, constrains cosmological parameters -- in particular, the matter density. We find a 2.5 sigma signal in the Ka, Q, V, and W WMAP bands, after combining the information from multipoles 2 <= l < 400. This is consistent with the expected amplitude of the ISW effect, but requires a lower matter density than is usually assumed: the amplitude, parametrized by the galaxy bias assuming \Omega_M=0.3, \Omega_\Lambda=0.7 and \sigma_8=0.9, is b_g = 4.05 \pm 1.54 for V band, with similar results for the other bands. This should be compared to b_g = 1.82 \pm 0.02 from the auto-correlation analysis. These data provide only a weak confirmation (2.5 sigma) of dark energy, but provide a significant upper limit: \Omega_\Lambda=0.80_{-0.06}^{+0.03} (1 sigma)_{-0.19}^{+0.05} (2 sigma), assuming a cosmology with \Omega_M+\Omega_\Lambda=1, \Omega_b = 0.05, and \sigma_8=0.9, and w=-1. The weak cross-correlation signal rules out low matter density/high dark energy density universes and, in combination with other data, strongly constrains models with w<-1.3. We provide a simple prescription to incorporate these constraints into cosmological parameter estimation methods for (\Omega_M, \sigma_8,w). (abridged)
Brinkmann Jonathan
Hirata Christopher M.
Padmanabhan Nikhil
Schlegel David
Schneider Donald P.
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