Cosmic microwave background temperature cosmography

Abstract

The temperature-redshift relation, $T(z)=T_0(1+z)$, is a cornerstone of the standard cosmological model, but it is violated in many physically motivated extensions thereof, e.g. when photon number is not conserved. We apply the methodology of cosmography, a model-independent approach to cosmology, to this observable, and use astrophysical Sunyaev-Zeldovich and high-resolution spectroscopic measurements spanning the redshift range $0\le z\le 6.34$, to constrain violations of the standard relation. We explore the impact of different cosmographic approaches and expansion variable choices and also compare the cosmographic constraints with those obtained, with the same data, in the canonical adiabatic extension model of Lima. While these choices have some impact, overall we find that such violations are constrained to percent level, and that a single non-standard parameter suffices to describe them. We also show that the directly fitted slope of the temperature-redshift relation is compatible with (but slightly smaller than) the one inferred from FIRAS, and that standard cosmography lore, based on scale factor expansions, does not apply to this observable, e.g. Padé approximants have no meaningful advantage over plain Taylor series.

5 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables; letter published in MNRAS

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