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2016ApJ...824..118A - Astrophys. J., 824, 118-118 (2016/June-3)

The kinetic Sunyaev-zel'dovich effect from reionization: simulated full-sky maps at arcminute resolution.

ALVAREZ M.A.

Abstract (from CDS):

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect results from Thomson scattering by coherent flows in the reionized intergalactic medium. We present new results based on ray-tracing an 8 Gpc/h realization of reionization with resolution elements 2 Mpc/h (subtending ∼1 ' at z=6) on a side to create a full-sky kSZ map. The realization includes, self-consistently, the effects of reionization on scales corresponding to multipoles 10\lesssim 5000 . We separate the kSZ map into Doppler ( v ), Ostriker-Vishniac ( δv ), patchy ( xv ), and third-order ( xδv ) components, and compute explicitly all the auto- and cross-correlations (e.g., <vv>, <δvxv>, etc.) that contribute to the total power. We find a complex and nonmonotonic dependence on the duration of reionization at ℓ∼300 and evidence for a non-negligible (10%-30%) contribution from connected four-point correlations, <xvxv>_c , usually neglected in analytical models. We also investigate the cross-correlation of linear matter and large-scale kSZ temperature fluctuations, focusing on (1) cross-power spectra with biased tracers of the matter density and (2) cold spots from infall onto large, rare H ii regions centered on peaks in the matter distribution at redshifts z\gt 10 that are a generic non-Gaussian feature of patchy reionization. Finally, we show that the reionization history can be reconstructed at 5σ-10σ significance by correlating full-sky 21 cm maps stacked in bins with Δν = 10 MHz with existing cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps at ℓ\lt 500 , raising the prospects for probing reionization by correlating CMB and LSS measurements. The resulting kSZ maps have been made publicly available at www.cita.utoronto.ca/∼malvarez/research/ksz-data/.

Abstract Copyright: © 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): cosmic background radiation - cosmology: theory - dark ages, reionization, first stars - intergalactic medium - large-scale structure of universe - methods: numerical

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