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Nonlinear Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

Astrophysics 2009-11-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We derive fully nonlinear expressions for temperature fluctuations from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect, the scattering of cosmic microwave background photons off hot electrons in bulk motion. Our result reproduces the Ostriker-Vishniac effect to second order in perturbation theory but contains nonlinear corrections to the electron velocities and densities that were neglected previously. We use the recently developed halo model for nonlinear gravitational clustering to compute the nonlinear kinetic SZ power spectrum, which dominates the primary anisotropy on small angular scales.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0106342,
  title  = {Nonlinear Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect},
  author = {Chung-Pei Ma and J. N. Fry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0106342},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures. Updated Fig 2 and minor revisions. Final version published in PRL (May 27 2002)