The contribution of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium to the Five-Year WMAP Data

Abstract

We study the contribution of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, generated by the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies in the Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data. We explore the concordance LambdaCDM cosmological model, with and without this kSZ contribution, using a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm. Our model requires a single extra parameter to describe this new component. Our results show that the inclusion of the kSZ signal improves the fit to the data without significantly altering the best-fit cosmological parameters except Obh^2. The improvement is localized at the l>500 multipoles. For the best-fit model, this extra component peaks at l~450 with an amplitude of 129 muK^2, and represents 3.1% of the total power measured by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. Nevertheless, at the 2-sigma level a null kSZ contribution is still compatible with the data. Part of the detected signal could arise from unmasked point sources and/or Poissonianly distributed foreground residuals. A statistically more significant detection requires the wider frequency coverage and angular resolution of the forthcoming Planck mission.

arXiv comment16 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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