期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 786, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/786/2/110
关键词
cosmic background radiation; cosmology: observations; large-scale structure of universe; methods:statistical
资金
- Sir John Templeton Foundation
- Durham Junior Research Fellowship
- NASA [NNX12AF83G, NNX10AD53G]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/F001166/1]
- STFC
- Large Facilities Capital Fund of BIS
- Durham University
- National Science Foundation
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- STFC [ST/H008519/1, ST/F002289/1, ST/I00162X/1, ST/I001166/1, ST/F002300/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/F002300/1, ST/F002289/1, ST/I00162X/1, ST/H008519/1, ST/I001166/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We measure the average temperature decrement on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) produced by voids selected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 spectroscopic redshift galaxy catalog, spanning redshifts 0 < z < 0.44. We find an imprint amplitude between 2.6 and 2.9 mu K as viewed through a compensated top-hat filter scaled to the radius of each void, we assess the statistical significance of the imprint at similar to 2 sigma, and we make crucial use of N-body simulations to calibrate our analysis. As expected, we find that large voids produce cold spots on the CMB through the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect. However, we also find that small voids in the halo density field produce hot spots, because they reside in contracting, larger-scale overdense regions. This is an important effect to consider when stacking CMB imprints from voids of different radii. We have found that the same filter radius that gives the largest ISW signal in simulations also yields close to the largest detected signal in the observations. However, although it is low in significance, our measured signal has a much higher amplitude than expected from ISW in the concordance.CDM universe. The discrepancy is also at the similar to 2 sigma level. We have demonstrated that our result is robust against the varying of thresholds over a wide range.
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