Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A measurement of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect using the skewness of the CMB temperature distribution

Michael J. Wilson; Blake D. Sherwin; J. Colin Hill; Graeme Addison; Nick Battaglia; J. Richard Bond; Sudeep Das; Mark J. Devlin; Joanna Dunkley; Rolando Dünner; Joseph W. Fowler; Megan B. Gralla; Amir Hajian; Mark Halpern; Matt Hilton; Adam D. Hincks; Renée Hlozek; Kevin Huffenberger; John P. Hughes; Arthur Kosowsky; Thibaut Louis; Tobias A. Marriage; Danica Marsden; Felipe Menanteau; Kavilan Moodley; Michael D. Niemack; Michael R. Nolta; Lyman A. Page; Bruce Partridge; Erik D. Reese; Neelima Sehgal; Jon Sievers; David N. Spergel; Suzanne T. Staggs; Daniel S. Swetz; Eric R. Switzer; Hy Trac; Ed Wollack

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.122005

Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A measurement of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect using the skewness of the CMB temperature distribution

Michael J. Wilson
, Blake D. Sherwin
, J. Colin Hill
, Graeme Addison
, Nick Battaglia
, J. Richard Bond
, Sudeep Das
, Mark J. Devlin
, Joanna Dunkley
, Rolando Dünner
, Joseph W. Fowler
, Megan B. Gralla
, Amir Hajian
, Mark Halpern
, Matt Hilton
, Adam D. Hincks
, Renée Hlozek
, Kevin Huffenberger
, John P. Hughes
, Arthur Kosowsky

Thibaut Louis, Tobias A. Marriage, Danica Marsden, Felipe Menanteau, Kavilan Moodley, Michael D. Niemack, Michael R. Nolta, Lyman A. Page, Bruce Partridge, Erik D. Reese, Neelima Sehgal, Jon Sievers, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Daniel S. Swetz, Eric R. Switzer, Hy Trac, Ed Wollack

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We present a detection of the unnormalized skewness âŸ̈ T^Ëœ3(n)âY induced by the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect in filtered Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) 148 GHz cosmic microwave background temperature maps. Contamination due to infrared and radio sources is minimized by template subtraction of resolved sources and by constructing a mask using outlying values in the 218 GHz (tSZ-null) ACT maps. We measure âŸ̈T^Ëœ3(n^)âY=-31±6 μK3 (Gaussian statistics assumed) or ±14 μK3 (including non-Gaussian corrections) in the filtered ACT data, a 5σ detection. We show that the skewness is a sensitive probe of σ₈, and use analytic calculations and tSZ simulations to obtain cosmological constraints from this measurement. From this signal alone we infer a value of σ₈=0.79-0.03+0.03 (68% C.L.) â€-0.06+0.06 (95% C.L.). Our results demonstrate that measurements of non-Gaussianity can be a useful method for characterizing the tSZ effect and extracting the underlying cosmological information.

Original language	English
Article number	122005
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	86
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.122005
State	Published - Dec 20 2012

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Wilson, M. J., Sherwin, B. D., Hill, J. C., Addison, G., Battaglia, N., Bond, J. R., Das, S., Devlin, M. J., Dunkley, J., Dünner, R., Fowler, J. W., Gralla, M. B., Hajian, A., Halpern, M., Hilton, M., Hincks, A. D., Hlozek, R., Huffenberger, K., Hughes, J. P., ... Wollack, E. (2012). Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A measurement of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect using the skewness of the CMB temperature distribution. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 86(12), Article 122005. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.122005

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Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A measurement of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect using the skewness of the CMB temperature distribution. / Wilson, Michael J.; Sherwin, Blake D.; Hill, J. Colin et al.
In: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 86, No. 12, 122005, 20.12.2012.

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