The Contribution of the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium to the Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Data

Génova-Santos, R.; Atrio-Barandela, F.; Mücket, J. P.; Klar, J. S.
Bibliographical reference

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 700, Issue 1, pp. 447-453 (2009).

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2009
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Description
We study the contribution of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, generated by the warm-hot intergalactic medium, to the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropies in the five-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data. We explore the concordance ΛCDM cosmological model, with and without this kSZ contribution, using a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm. Our model requires a single extra parameter to describe this new component. Our results show that the inclusion of the kSZ signal improves the fit to the data without significantly altering the best-fit cosmological parameters except Ωb h 2. The improvement is localized at the ell gsim 500 multipoles. For the best-fit model, this extra component peaks at ell ~ 450 with an amplitude of 129 μK2, and represents 3.1% of the total power measured by WMAP. Nevertheless, at the 2σ level a null kSZ contribution is still compatible with the data. Part of the detected signal could arise from unmasked point sources and/or Poissonianly distributed foreground residuals. A statistically more significant detection requires the wider frequency coverage and angular resolution of the forthcoming Planck mission.
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