Microwave sky and the local Rees-Sciama effect

dc.creatorRakic, Aleksandar
dc.creatorRasanen, Syksy
dc.creatorSchwarz, Dominik J.
dc.date2006-01-19
dc.date2006-04-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:27:47Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:27:47Z
dc.descriptionThe microwave sky shows unexpected features at the largest angular scales, among them the alignments of the dipole, quadrupole and octopole. Motivated by recent X-ray cluster studies, we investigate the possibility that local structures at the 100 h^(-1) Mpc scale could be responsible for such correlations. These structures give rise to a local Rees-Sciama contribution to the microwave sky that may amount to Delta T/T ~ 10^(-5) at the largest angular scales. We model local structures by a spherical overdensity (Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi model) and assume that the Local Group is falling toward the centre. We superimpose the local Rees-Sciama effect on a statistically isotropic, gaussian sky. As expected we find alignments among low multipoles, but a closer look reveals that they do not agree with the type of correlations revealed by the data.
dc.description6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables; v3: references added, presentation improved; Supplementary material at http://www.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/cosmology/rs.html
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601445
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601445
dc.identifierMon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.369:L27-L31,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00167.x
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/177255
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleMicrowave sky and the local Rees-Sciama effect
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