Bibcode
Padilla-Torres, C.; Rebolo, R.; Gutiérrez, C.; Génova-Santos, R.; Rubiño-Martín, J.; Watson, R.
Bibliographical reference
XII Latin American IAU Regional Meeting (Eds. G. Magris, G. Bruzual, & L. Carigi) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 35, pp. 313 (2009) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
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2009
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Description
In a recent survey at 33 GHz for baryonic matter at large scales in the
Corona Borealis Supercluster (CrB-SC) of galaxies (z = 0.07) using the
Very Small Array interferometer (VSA), covering 24^2, two strongs
decrements in temperature (CrB-B and CrB-H) near the centre of the
supercluster were detected. The amplitudes are -157+/-27 and
-230+/-23μK for decrements CrB-B and CrB-H respectively. There are no
known clusters of galaxies coincident with the position of either of
these decrements. Monte-Carlo simulations show that only CrB-B can be
produced by primary anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background
(CMB) radiation. To explain the origen of CrB-H, a combination of both
CMB perturbations and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) is required.
We explore the possibility that this SZE could be produced by warm/hot
gas on superclusters scales. ROSAT images do not show X-ray emission in
these regions. We study the distribution of galaxies down to r ≤ 20
magnitudes in CrB-SC. Our analysis reveals in the region of CrB-H an
overdensity of galaxies by a factor of two with respect to nearby
control fields. No evidence for a new cluster is found, but the presece
of a large number of galaxies in the intercluster region is suggestive
that associated gas could be at least partially responsible for the
observed temperature decrement in the CMB signal. We obtained
spectroscopic redshifts for a sample of these galaxies and found first
evidence for a substructure in the spot region extending from z = 0.07 -
0.09. This is suggestive of a dense filamentary structure of size
several tens of Mpc.