scholarly journals CMB: Anisotropies Due to Non-Linear Clustering

1996 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 445-446
Author(s):  
E. Martínez-González ◽  
J. L. Sanz
Keyword(s):  
Linear Density ◽  
Gravitational Effect ◽  
Density Fluctuations ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Gravitational Fields ◽  
Hot Gas ◽  
Peculiar Velocities ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Density Perturbations ◽  
The Universe

Most of the studies on the anisotropy expected in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have been based on linear density perturbations. The anisotropies at angular scales ≥ 1o(horizon at recombination) are preserved during the evolution of the universe, whereas for smaller scales new effects can appear, generated during the non-linear phase of matter clustering evolution: i) the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect due to hot gas in clusters (Scaramella et al. 1993), ii) the Vishniac effect (Vishniac 1987) due to the coupling between density fluctuations and bulk motions of gas and iii) the integrated gravitational effect (Martínez–González et al. 1994) due to time-varyng gravitational potentials. A single potential φ(t, x), satisfying the Poisson equation, is enouph to describe weak gravitational fields associated to non-linear density fluctuations when one considers scales smaller than the horizon and non-relativistic peculiar velocities. The temperature anisotropies, in a flat universe, are given by the expression (Martínez–González et al. 1990)

scholarly journals Anisotropy of the Microwave Background and Biased Galaxy Formation

1988 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Nick Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Galaxy Clustering ◽  
Clear View ◽  
Hot Gas ◽  
Density Perturbations ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Theoretical Developments

Fluctuations in the microwave background will have been imprinted at z ≃ 1000, when the photons and the plasma decoupled. On angular scales greater than a few degrees these fluctuations provide a clear view of any primordial density perturbations, and therefore a clean test of theories which invoke such fluctuations from which to form the structure we see in the universe. On smaller angular scales the predictions are less certain: reionization of the gas may modify the spectrum of the primordial fluctuations, and secondary fluctuations may be generated.Here I shall review some recent theoretical developments. A brief survey is made of the currently popular theories for the primordial perturbations, with emphasis on the predictions for large scale anisotropy. One major uncetainty in the predictions arises from the normalisation of the fluctuations to e.g. galaxy clustering, and much attention is given to the question of ‘biased’ galaxy formation. The effect of reionization on the primordial fluctuations is discussed, as is the anisotropy generated from scattering off hot gas in clusters, groups and galaxies.

Are we falling into the Virgo Cluster?

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Visvanathan
Keyword(s):  
Hubble Constant ◽  
Virgo Cluster ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Mean Velocity ◽  
Distant Galaxies ◽  
Induced Motion ◽  
Density Perturbations ◽  
Peculiar Motion ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Universe

One of the important discoveries of astronomy is that the Universe expands: distant galaxies have large recession velocities in direct proportion to their distances. Attempts to determine a global value for the constant of proportionality between the velocity and the distance (Hubble constant) are met with difficulties by the presence of peculiar, random and streaming motions in the local region. These peculiar motions are either of primordial origin or the effect of density perturbations. These affect the mean velocity of the nearby groups in the level of 50-100 km/sec (Tammann, Sandage and Yahil 1980). However, the expected peculiar gravitationally induced motion of the Local Group towards the Virgo cluster, could be large due to the high density contrast in that direction (Sciama 1967; de Vaucouleurs and Peters 1968; Sandage, Tammann and Hardy 1972; Jones 1976). This infall motion could be as high as 500 km/sec if the anisotropy of the microwave background is interpreted to have a component of our peculiar motion towards the Virgo cluster (Peebles 1971, Boughn, Cheng and Wilkinson 1981; Gorenstein and Smoot 1981).

scholarly journals Secondary CMB temperature anisotropies from magnetic reheating

2019 ◽  
Vol 490 (3) ◽  
pp. 4419-4427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shohei Saga ◽  
Atsuhisa Ota ◽  
Hiroyuki Tashiro ◽  
Shuichiro Yokoyama
Keyword(s):  
Field Amplitude ◽  
Temperature Perturbation ◽  
Linear Parameter ◽  
Spectral Distortion ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Linear Coupling ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Primordial Magnetic Fields ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Cmb Temperature

ABSTRACT Spatially fluctuating primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) inhomogeneously reheat the Universe when they dissipate deep inside the horizon before recombination. Such an energy injection turns into an additional photon temperature perturbation. We investigate secondary cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies originated from this mechanism, which we call inhomogeneous magnetic reheating. We find that it can bring us information about non-linear coupling between PMFs and primordial curvature perturbations parametrized by bNL, which should be important for probing the generation mechanism of PMFs. In fact, by using current CMB observations, we obtain an upper bound on the non-linear parameter as log (bNL(Bλ/nG)2) ≲ − 36.5nB − 94.0 with Bλ and nB being a magnetic field amplitude smoothed over λ = 1 Mpc scale and a spectral index of the PMF power spectrum, respectively. Our constraints are far stronger than a previous forecast based on the future CMB spectral distortion anisotropy measurements because inhomogeneous magnetic reheating covers a much wider range of scales, i.e. 1 Mpc−1 ≲ k ≲ 1015 Mpc−1.

DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS ON SUPER-HUBBLE SCALES

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 1531-1538 ◽  
Author(s):  
LI-ZHI FANG ◽  
YI-PENG JING
Keyword(s):  
Background Radiation ◽  
Cosmic Background Radiation ◽  
Density Fluctuations ◽  
Cosmic Background ◽  
Density Perturbations ◽  
Hubble Radius ◽  
The Universe

According to causality, the existence of density perturbations on scales larger than the present Hubble radius y = 2c/H0 is crucial to discriminate between inflation and non-inflation models of the origin of inhomogeneity of the universe. Observations of the cosmic background radiation anisotropies favor a super-Hubble suppression on scales λmax in the range 0.5–3.0y. Many of non-inflation models are consistent with such a suppression. Inflation models are certainly not in conflict with this suppression, however one important parameter, the duration of the epoch of inflation, may need to be fine tuned.

scholarly journals Inflation, Microwave Background Anisotropy, and Open Universe Models

1996 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 321-327
Author(s):  
J.A. Frieman
Keyword(s):  
Early Universe ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Large Scale Structure ◽  
Density Fluctuations ◽  
Inhomogeneous Distribution ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Inflationary Scenario ◽  
Open Universe ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Universe Models

The inflationary scenario for the very early universe has proven very attractive, because it can simultaneously solve a number of cosmological puzzles, such as the homogeneity of the Universe on scales exceeding the particle horizon at early times, the flatness or entropy problem, and the origin of density fluctuations for large-scale structure [1]. In this scenario, the observed Universe (roughly, the present Hubble volume) represents part of a homogeneous inflated region embedded in an inhomogeneous space-time. On scales beyond the size of this homogeneous patch, the initially inhomogeneous distribution of energy-momentum that existed prior to inflation is preserved, the scale of the inhomogeneities merely being stretched by the expansion.

scholarly journals Deep learning for Sunyaev–Zel’dovich detection in Planck

2020 ◽  
Vol 634 ◽  
pp. A81
Author(s):  
V. Bonjean
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Galaxy Clusters ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Galaxy Cluster ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Large Scale Structures ◽  
Hot Gas ◽  
Scale Structures ◽  
The Universe

The Planck collaboration has extensively used the six Planck HFI frequency maps to detect the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ) effect with dedicated methods, for example by applying (i) component separation to construct a full-sky map of the y parameter or (ii) matched multi-filters to detect galaxy clusters via their hot gas. Although powerful, these methods may still introduce biases in the detection of the sources or in the reconstruction of the SZ signal due to prior knowledge (e.g. the use of the generalised Navarro, Frenk, and White profile model as a proxy for the shape of galaxy clusters, which is accurate on average but not for individual clusters). In this study, we use deep learning algorithms, more specifically, a U-net architecture network, to detect the SZ signal from the Planck HFI frequency maps. The U-net shows very good performance, recovering the Planck clusters in a test area. In the full sky, Planck clusters are also recovered, together with more than 18 000 other potential SZ sources for which we have statistical indications of galaxy cluster signatures, by stacking at their positions several full-sky maps at different wavelengths (i.e. the cosmic microwave background lensing map from Planck, maps of galaxy over-densities, and the ROSAT X-ray map). The diffuse SZ emission is also recovered around known large-scale structures such as Shapley, A399–A401, Coma, and Leo. Results shown in this proof-of-concept study are promising for potential future detection of galaxy clusters with low SZ pressure with this kind of approach, and more generally, for potential identification and characterisation of large-scale structures of the Universe via their hot gas.

scholarly journals Probing Density Fluctuations in the Universe with the FIRST Radio Survey

1999 ◽  
Vol 183 ◽  
pp. 244-244
Author(s):  
C.M. Cress
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Function ◽  
Power Spectrum ◽  
Angular Correlation ◽  
Density Fluctuations ◽  
Linear Evolution ◽  
Angle Measurements ◽  
Model Predictions ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Angular Correlation Function ◽  
The Universe

We compare the angular correlation function measured for FIRST sources (Becker et al., Cress et al.) with COBE-normalized CDM-model predictions (Cress & Kamionkowski). We note that uncertainties in the z-distribution do not affect the predictions dramatically and that the effects of non-linear evolution of the power spectrum are significant for θ<∼20′. We find the CF at larger angles to be sensitive to clustering of nearby sources. The smaller angle measurements, when combined with results from other surveys (Loan et al., Rengelink et al.) indicate that the bias required for the data to fit CDM models increases as the surveys probe deeper. We also point the reader to Refregier et al. for information on the use of weak lensing of FIRST sources in probing foreground mass.

COSMOLOGY FROM GALAXY SURVEYS

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2115-2119
Author(s):  
WILL J. PERCIVAL
Keyword(s):  
Power Spectrum ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Density Fluctuations ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Peculiar Galaxy ◽  
Galaxy Surveys ◽  
Redshift Surveys ◽  
Galaxy Redshift ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Statistical Clustering

Galaxy Redshift surveys provide a three-dimensional map of the Universe. Three distinct processes that encode cosmological information in these maps, are commonly used to constrain models: (i) the comoving power spectrum shape depends on the physical properties of the early Universe, including the physical matter, baryon and neutrino densities, the inflation power spectrum and the degree of Gaussianity of density fluctuations; (ii) we can use the statistical clustering of galaxies as a standard ruler by matching it, or parts of it at different redshifts, and to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB); (iii) redshift-space distortions, anisotropic patterns caused by peculiar galaxy velocities, reveal structure growth. Following the design of my talk at the 1st Galileo–Xu Guangqi Meeting, I will use these proceedings to briefly review these experiments.

Cosmic Density Fluctuations, Magnetic Fields and Gravitational Waves

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 1069-1076 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Background Radiation ◽  
Density Fluctuations ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Superstring Theory ◽  
Higher Derivative ◽  
Microwave Background Radiation ◽  
Dynamo Mechanism ◽  
Gravitational Wave Background ◽  
The Universe

It has previously been shown, for the heterotic superstring theory including higher-derivative terms ℛ2, how metric fluctuations, sufficient for galaxy formation in the Universe, arise as a consequence of the Heisenberg indeterminacy principle, applied to the dynamical auxiliary coordinate [Formula: see text] and its canonically conjugate momentum πξ, defined from the Friedmann space-time [Formula: see text]. This indeterminacy is distributed amongst the scalar, vector and tensor modes of the metric. Therefore, in addition to the fluctuations δρ/ρ in the matter, and in the cosmic microwave background radiation, there is a magnetic field, whose magnitude is estimated to agree approximately with the phenomenological value B c ~ 10-10 G required for the present-day intergalactic field (in the absence of a dynamo mechanism acting on a primordial field B s ≲ 10-17 G), and also a stochastic gravitational wave background, whose energy density must be bounded by the limit Ω gw ≲ 2.6×10-14h-2≈ 10-13 obtained by Krauss and White from the Sachs–Wolfe effect.

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