Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-09-18
Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 103506; Erratum-ibid. D73 (2006) 029901
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.103506
Based on the second-order nonlinear theory of perturbations in non-zero \Lambda flat cosmological models, we study the gravitational effects of local inhomogeneities on cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. As the local inhomogeneities we consider firstly large-scale dipole and quadruple distributions of galaxies around us and next an isolated cluster-scale matter distribution. It is found that, due to the second-order integral Sachs-Wolfe effect, the north-south asymmetry of CMB anisotropies and non-Gaussian signatures (in terms of scale-dependent estimators of kurtosis) in a spot-like object are caused from these matter distributions along light paths. Our theoretical results seem to be consistent with recent various observational results which have been shown by Hansen et al., Eriksen et al., Vielva et al. and Cruz et al.
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