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Constraining the redshift evolution of the Cosmic Microwave Background black-body temperature with PLANCK data

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-07-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We constrain the deviation of adiabatic evolution of the Universe using the data on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies measured by the {\it Planck} satellite and a sample of 481 X-ray selected clusters with spectroscopically measured redshifts. To avoid antenna beam effects, we bring all the maps to the same resolution. We use a CMB template to subtract the cosmological signal while preserving the Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (TSZ) anisotropies; next, we remove galactic foreground emissions around each cluster and we mask out all known point sources. If the CMB black-body temperature scales with redshift as T(z)=T0(1+z)1αT(z)=T_0(1+z)^{1-\alpha}, we constrain deviations of adiabatic evolution to be α=0.007±0.013\alpha=-0.007\pm 0.013, consistent with the temperature-redshift relation of the standard cosmological model. This result could suffer from a potential bias δα\delta\alpha associated with the CMB template, that we quantify it to be δα0.02|\delta\alpha|\le 0.02 and with the same sign than the measured value of α\alpha, but is free from those biases associated with using TSZ selected clusters; it represents the best constraint to date of the temperature-redshift relation of the Big-Bang model using only CMB data, confirming previous results.

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@article{arxiv.1502.06707,
  title  = {Constraining the redshift evolution of the Cosmic Microwave Background black-body temperature with PLANCK data},
  author = {I. de Martino and R. Génova-Santos and F. Atrio-Barandela and H. Ebeling and A. Kashlinsky and D. Kocevski and C. J. A. P. Martins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06707},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

ApJ, in press. Manuscript matches the accepted version: 10 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables