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Atrio-Barandela, F.; Mücket, J. P.; Génova-Santos, R.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 674, Issue 2, pp. L61-L64.
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2008
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Description
If the gas in filaments and halos shares the same velocity field as the
luminous matter, it will generate measurable temperature anisotropies
due to the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. We compute the
distribution function of the KSZ signal produced by a typical filament
and show it is highly non-Gaussian. The combined contribution of the
thermal and kinematic SZ effects of a filament of size L~=5 Mpc and
electron density ne~=103 m-3 could
explain the cold spot of δ ~ -200 μK on scales of
30' found in the Corona Borealis supercluster by the VSA
experiment. Planck, with its large resolution and frequency coverage,
could provide the first evidence of the existence of filaments in this
region. The KSZ contribution of the network of filaments and halo
structures to the radiation power spectrum peaks around l~400, a scale
very different from that of clusters of galaxies, with a maximum
amplitude l(l+1)Cl/2π~10-25 (μK)2, depending
on model parameters, i.e., σ8 and the Jeans length.
About 80% of the signal comes from filaments with redshift z<=0.1.
Adding this component to the intrinsic cosmic microwave background
temperature anisotropies of the concordance model improves the fit to
WMAP 3 yr data by Δχ2~=1. The improvement is not
statistically significant but a more systematic study could demonstrate
that gas could significantly contribute to the anisotropies measured by
WMAP.
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