Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-07-29
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
submitted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
The Universe's Epoch of Reionization (EoR) can be studied using a number of observational probes that provide complementary or corroborating information. Each of these probes suffers from its own systematic and statistical uncertainties. It is therefore useful to consider the mutual information that these data sets contain. In this paper we present a cross-correlation study between the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) -- produced by the scattering of CMB photons off free electrons produced during the reionization process -- and the cosmological 21cm signal -- which reflects the neutral hydrogen content of the Universe, as a function of redshift. The study is carried out using a simulated reionization history in 100Mpc/h scale N-body simulations with radiative transfer. In essence we find that the two probes anti-correlate. The significance of the anti-correlation signal depends on the extent of the reionization process, wherein extended histories result in a much stronger signal compared to instantaneous cases. Unfortunately however, once the primary CMB fluctuations are included into our simulation they serve as a source of large correlated noise that renders the cross-correlation signal insignificant, regardless of the reionization scenario.
Aghanim Nabila
Douspis Marian
Jelic Vibor
Koopmans Leon V. E.
Langer Mathieu
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