Extragalactic source contributions to arcminute-scale Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies

Toffolatti, L., Negrello, Mattia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7925-7663, González-Nuevo, J., De Zotti, G., Silva, L., Granato, G. L. and Argüeso, F. 2005. Extragalactic source contributions to arcminute-scale Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies. Astronomy and Astrophysics 438 (2) , pp. 475-480. 10.1051/0004-6361:20042158

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Abstract

The possible contributions of the various classes of extragalactic sources (including, in addition to the canonical radio sources, GHz Peaked Spectrum sources, advection-dominated sources, starburst galaxies, high-redshift proto-spheroidal galaxies) to the arcminute scale fluctuations measured by the CBI, BIMA, and ACBAR experiments are discussed. At 30 GHz, fluctuations due to radio sources undetected by ancillary low-frequency surveys may be higher than estimated by the CBI and BIMA groups. High-redshift dusty galaxies, whose fluctuations may be strongly enhanced by the effect of clustering, could contribute to the BIMA excess signal, and dominate at 150 GHz (the ACBAR frequency). Moreover, in the present data situation, the dust emission of these high-redshift sources set an unavoidable limit to the detection of primordial CMB anisotropies at high multipoles, even at frequencies as low as $\simeq $30 GHz. It is concluded that the possibility that the excess power at high multipoles is dominated by unsubtracted extragalactic sources cannot be ruled out. On the other hand, there is room for a contribution from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect within clusters of galaxies, with a density fluctuation amplitude parameter $\sigma_8$ consistent with the values preferred by current data.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	cosmic microwave background; galaxies: general; radio continuum: galaxies
Publisher:	EDP Sciences
ISSN:	00046361
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 10:11
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/83970

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