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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 377, Issue 3, Pages 1085-1094Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11538.x
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cosmic microwave background; cosmological parameters; cosmology : observations; cosmology : theory; large-scale structure of Universe
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We perform a cross-correlation of the cosmic microwave background using the third year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data with the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) galaxy map (about 828 000 galaxies with median redshift z approximate to 0.07). One motivation is to detect the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect, expected if the cosmic gravitational potential is time dependent; for example, as it is in a flat universe with a dark energy component. The measured spherical harmonic cross-correlation signal favours the ISW signal expected in the concordance Lambda cold dark matter (Lambda CDM) model over that of zero correlation, although both are consistent with the data within 2 sigma. Within a flat Lambda CDM model we find a best-fitting value of Omega(Lambda) = 0.85 and Omega(Lambda) < 0.89 (95 per cent CL). The above limits assume a galaxy bias b(g)(sigma(8)/0.75) approximate to 1.40 +/- 0.03, which we derived directly from the 2MASS autocorrelation. Another goal is to test if previously reported anomalies in the WMAP data are related to the galaxy distribution (the so-called 'axis of evil' - AoE). No such anomaly is observed in the 2MASS data nor are there any observed AoE correlations between the 2MASS and WMAP3 data.
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