Linear kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and void models for acceleration

Abstract

There has been considerable recent interest in cosmological models in which the current apparent acceleration is due to a very large local underdensity, or void, instead of some form of dark energy. Here we examine a new proposal to constrain such models using the linear kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect due to structure within the void. The simplified "Hubble bubble" models previously studied appeared to predict far more kSZ power than is actually observed, independently of the details of the initial conditions and evolution of perturbations in such models. We show that the constraining power of the kSZ effect is considerably weakened (though still impressive) under a fully relativistic treatment of the problem, and point out several theoretical ambiguities and observational shortcomings which further qualify the results. Nevertheless, we conclude that a very large class of void models is ruled out by the combination of kSZ and other methods.

15 pages, 9 figures; minor changes, version published in CQG focus section "Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models and Averaging in Cosmology"

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