Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-04-04
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 384 (2008) 1289-1300
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 10 figures, replaced to match version accepted by MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12776.x
Using local morphological measures on the sphere defined through a steerable wavelet analysis, we examine the three-year WMAP and the NVSS data for correlation induced by the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect. The steerable wavelet constructed from the second derivative of a Gaussian allows one to define three local morphological measures, namely the signed-intensity, orientation and elongation of local features. Detections of correlation between the WMAP and NVSS data are made with each of these morphological measures. The most significant detection is obtained in the correlation of the signed-intensity of local features at a significance of 99.9%. By inspecting signed-intensity sky maps, it is possible for the first time to see the correlation between the WMAP and NVSS data by eye. Foreground contamination and instrumental systematics in the WMAP data are ruled out as the source of all significant detections of correlation. Our results provide new insight on the ISW effect by probing the morphological nature of the correlation induced between the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure of the Universe. Given the current constraints on the flatness of the Universe, our detection of the ISW effect again provides direct and independent evidence for dark energy. Moreover, this new morphological analysis may be used in future to help us to better understand the nature of dark energy.
Hobson Michael P.
Lasenby Anthony N.
McEwen Don J.
Vandergheynst Pierre
Wiaux Yves
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