The thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect power spectrum in light of Planck

Abstract

(Abridged) The amplitude of the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (tSZ) power spectrum is extremely sensitive to the abundance of galaxy clusters and therefore to fundamental cosmological parameters that control their growth, such as sigma_8 and Omega_m. Here we explore the sensitivity of the tSZ power spectrum to important non-gravitational ('sub-grid') physics by employing the cosmo-OWLS suite of large-volume cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, run in both the Planck and WMAP7 best-fit cosmologies. On intermediate and small angular scales (ell > ~1000, or theta < ~10 arcmin), accessible with the South Pole Telescope and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the predicted tSZ power spectrum is highly model dependent, with AGN feedback having a particularly large effect. However, at large scales, observable with the Planck telescope, the effects of sub-grid physics are minor. Comparing the simulations with observations, we find a significant amplitude offset on all measured angular scales (including large scales), if the Planck best-fit cosmology is assumed by the simulations. This is shown to be a generic result for all current tSZ models. By contrast, if the WMAP7 cosmology is adopted, there is full consistency with the Planck power spectrum measurements on large scales and agreement at the 2 sigma level with the SPT/ACT measurements at intermediate scales for our fiducial AGN model, which Le Brun et al. (2014) have shown reproduces the 'resolved' properties of the local cluster population remarkably well. These findings strongly suggest that there are significantly fewer massive galaxy clusters than expected for the Planck best-fit cosmology, which is consistent with recent measurements of the tSZ number counts. Our findings therefore pose a significant challenge to the cosmological parameter values preferred (and/or the model adopted) by the Planck primary CMB analyses.

15 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS, accepted with minor revisions

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