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A MEASUREMENT OF SECONDARY COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPIES FROM THE 2500 SQUARE-DEGREE SPT-SZ SURVEY

Journal

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 799, Issue 2, Pages -

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/799/2/177

Keywords

cosmic background radiation; cosmology: observations; dark ages, reionization, first stars; diffuse radiation; large-scale structure of universe

Funding

  1. National Science Foundation [PLR-1248097]
  2. NSF Physics Frontier Center [PHY-1125897]
  3. Kavli Foundation
  4. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation [GBMF 947]
  5. National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  6. Canada Research Chairs program
  7. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
  8. NASA Hubble Fellowship [HF-51275.01]
  9. Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
  10. Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
  11. NASA Office of Space Science
  12. Division Of Physics
  13. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1125897] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
  14. Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
  15. Directorate For Geosciences [1248097] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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We present measurements of secondary cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and cosmic infrared background (CIB) fluctuations using data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) covering the complete 2540 deg(2) SPT-SZ survey area. Data in the three SPT-SZ frequency bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz, are used to produce six angular power spectra (three single-frequency auto-spectra and three cross-spectra) covering the multipole range 2000 < l < 11,000 (angular scales 5' greater than or similar to theta greater than or similar to 1'). These are the most precise measurements of the angular power spectra at l > 2500 at these frequencies. The main contributors to the power spectra at these angular scales and frequencies are the primary CMB, CIB, thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects (tSZ and kSZ), and radio galaxies. We include a constraint on the tSZ power from a measurement of the tSZ bispectrum from 800 deg(2) of the SPT-SZ survey. We measure the tSZ power at 143 GHz to be D-3000(tSZ) = 4.08(-0.67)(+0.58) mu K-2 and the kSZ power to be D-3000(kSZ) = 2.9 +/- 1.3 mu K-2. The data prefer positive kSZ power at 98.1% CL. We measure a correlation coefficient of xi = 0.113(-0.054)(+0.057) between sources of tSZ and CIB power, with xi < 0 disfavored at a confidence level of 99.0%. The constraint on kSZ power can be interpreted as an upper limit on the duration of reionization. When the post-reionization homogeneous kSZ signal is accounted for, we find an upper limit on the duration Delta z < 5.4 at 95% CL.

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