Publication : t99/120
Lensing effect on the relative orientation between the Cosmic Microwave Background ellipticities and the distant galaxies
Van Waerbeke L. (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, M5S 3H8 Ontario, CANADA)Bernardeau F. (CEA, DSM, SPhT (Service de Physique Théorique), F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, FRANCE)
Benabed K. (CEA, DSM, SPhT (Service de Physique Théorique), F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, FRANCE)
Abstract:Année de publication : 2000
The low redshift structures of the Universe act as lenses in a similar way on the Cosmic Microwave Background light and on the distant galaxies (say at redshift about unity). As a consequence, the CMB temperature distortions are expected to be statistically correlated with the galaxy shear, exhibiting a non-uniform distribution of the relative angle between the CMB and the galactic ellipticities. Investigating this effect we find that its amplitude is as high as a 10\% excess of alignement between CMB and the galactic ellipticities relative to the uniform distribution. The relatively high signal-to-noise ratio we found should makes possible a detection with the planned CMB data sets, provided that a galaxy survey follow up can be done on a sufficiently large area. It would provide a complementary bias-independent constraint on the cosmological parameters.
Revue : Astrophys. J. 540 14-19 (2000)
DOI : 10.1086/309301
Preprint : arXiv:astro-ph/9910366
Lien : http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?2000ApJ...540...14VPDF
Keywords : cosmology: theory, Cosmic Microwave Background, large-scale structures, weak lensing
Langue : Anglais
