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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 701, Issue 1, Pages 414-422Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/701/1/414
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cosmic microwave background; cosmology: observations; large-scale structure of universe; methods: statistical
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We construct a map of the time derivative of the gravitational potential traced by Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxies (LRGs). The potential decays on large scales due to cosmic acceleration, leaving an imprint on cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation through the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect. With a template fit, we directly measure this signature on the CMB at a 2 sigma confidence level. The measurement is consistent with the cross-correlation statistic, strengthening the claim that dark energy is indeed the cause of the correlation. This new approach potentially simplifies the cosmological interpretation. Our constructed linear ISW map shows no evidence for degree-scale cold and hot spots associated with supervoid and supercluster structures. This suggests that the linear ISW effect in a concordance Lambda CDM cosmology is insufficient to explain the strong CMB imprints from these structures that we previously reported.
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