Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-11-19
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 344 (2003) 1155
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Includes a new section and a new appendix. Typos corrected. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06893.x
Clusters of galaxies produce negative features at wavelengths $\lambda > 1.25$ mm in CMB maps, by means of the thermal SZ effect, while point radio sources produce positive peaks. This fact implies that a distribution of unresolved SZ clusters could be detected using the negative asymmetry introduced in the odd-moments of the brightness map (skewness and higher), or in the probability distribution function (PDF) for the fluctuations, once the map has been filtered in order to remove the contribution from primordial CMB fluctuations from large scales. This property provides a consistency check to the recent detections from CBI and BIMA experiments of an excess of power at small angular scales, in order to confirm that they are produced by a distribution of unresolved SZ clusters. However it will require at least 1.5 - 2 times more observing time than detection of corresponding power signal. This approach could also be used with the data of the planned SZ experiments (e.g. ACT, AMI, AMIBA, APEX, 8 m South Pole telescope).
Rubiño-Martín Jose Alberto
Sunyaev Rashid A.
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