Planck intermediate results XXXVII. Evidence of unbound gas from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
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Journal Article
Abstract
By looking at the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (kSZ) in Planck nominal mission data, we present a significant detection of baryons participating in large-scale bulk flows around central galaxies (CGs) at redshift z ≈ 0.1. We estimate the pairwise momentum of the kSZ temperature fluctuations at the positions of the Central Galaxy Catalogue (CGC) samples extracted from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR7) data. For the foreground-cleaned SEVEM, SMICA, NILC, and COMMANDER maps, we find 1.8–2.5σ detections of the kSZ signal, which are consistent with the kSZ evidence found in individualPlanck raw frequency maps, although lower than found in the WMAP-9yr W-band (3.3σ). We further reconstruct the peculiar velocity field from the CG density field, and compute for the first time the cross-correlation function between kSZ temperature fluctuations and estimates of CG radial peculiar velocities. This correlation function yields a 3.0–3.7σ detection of the peculiar motion of extended gas on Mpc scales in flows correlated up to distances of 80–100 h-1 Mpc. Both the pairwise momentum estimates and the kSZ temperature-velocity field correlation find evidence for kSZ signatures out to apertures of 8 arcmin and beyond, corresponding to a physical radius of >1 Mpc, more than twice the mean virial radius of halos. This is consistent with the predictions from hydrodynamical simulations that most of the baryons are outside the virialized halos. We fit a simple model, in which the temperature-velocity cross-correlation is proportional to the signal seen in a semi-analytic model built upon N-body simulations, and interpret the proportionality constant as an effective optical depth to Thomson scattering. We find τT = (1.4 ± 0.5) × 10-4; the simplest interpretation of this measurement is that much of the gas is in a diffuse phase, which contributes little signal to X-ray or thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich observations.
Date Issued
2016-02-09
Date Acceptance
2015-10-07
Citation
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2016, 586
ISSN
1432-0746
Publisher
EDP Sciences
Journal / Book Title
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Volume
586
Copyright Statement
© 2016 ESO
Sponsor
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
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Grant Number
ST/H001239/1
ST/J001368/1
ST/K001051/1
ST/K004131/1
ST/N001206/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Astronomy & Astrophysics
cosmic background radiation
cosmology: observations
large-scale structure of Universe
galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium
PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS SIMULATIONS
BULK FLOW
DENSITY FIELDS
COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
WIENER RECONSTRUCTION
PECULIAR VELOCITIES
REDSHIFT SURVEYS
GALAXY SAMPLES
IRAS-GALAXIES
DARK ENERGY
astro-ph.CO
0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN A140