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A new method of measuring the cluster peculiar velocity power spectrum

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 388, Issue 2, Pages 884-888

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WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13454.x

Keywords

cosmic microwave background; cosmology : observations; cosmology : theory; dark matter; distance scale; large-scale structure of Universe

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  1. Division Of Astronomical Sciences
  2. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0807326] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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We propose to use spatial correlations of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (KSZ) flux as an estimator of the peculiar velocity power spectrum. In contrast with conventional techniques, our new method does not require measurements of the thermal SZ signal or the X-ray temperature. Moreover, this method has the special advantage that the expected systematic errors are always subdominant to statistical errors on all scales and redshifts of interest. We show that future large sky coverage KSZ surveys may allow a peculiar velocity power spectrum estimates of an accuracy reaching similar to 10 per cent.

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