Detection of the ISW and SZ effects from the CMB-Galaxy correlation

Details Detection of the ISW and SZ effects from the CMB-Galaxy correlation Detection of the ISW and SZ effects from the CMB-Galaxy correlation

2003-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307249v4

Astrophys.J. 597 (2003) L89-92

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted by ApJL. New figure and further discussion about error estimates

Scientific paper

10.1086/379848

We present a cross-correlation analysis of the WMAP cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies and the SDSS galaxy density fluctuations. We find significant detections of the angular CMB-galaxy correlation for both the flux limited galaxy sample (z~0.3) and the high redshift (z ~ 0.5) color selected sample. The signal is compatible with that expected from the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect at large angles (\theta > 3deg) and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect at small scales (\theta < 1 deg). The detected correlation at low-z is in good agreement with a previous analysis using the APM survey (z~0.15). The combined analysis of all 3 samples yields a total significance better than 3 sigma for ISW and about 2.7 \sigma for SZ, with a Compton parameter y~10^(-6). For a given flat LCDM model, the ISW effect depends both on the value of \Omega_\Lambda and the galaxy bias b. To break this degeneracy, we estimate the bias using the ratio between the galaxy and mass auto-correlation functions in each sample. With our bias estimation, all samples consistently favor a best fit dark-energy dominated model: \Omega_\Lambda ~ 0.8, with a 2 \sigma error \Omega_\Lambda=0.69-0.86.

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