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The cross-correlation between cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies and the large scale structure (LSS) traced by the galaxy distribution, or sources at different wavelengths, is now well known. This correlation results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Asantha Cooray , Alessandro Melchiorri

The photometry profile of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect recently obtained by the Planck consortium by stacking patches of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) sky maps around a large number of cosmic voids, contains a cold ring at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 Bin Chen , Ronald Kantowski

Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) measurements, which involve cross-correlating the CMB with the foreground large-scale structure (e.g. galaxies/quasars), have proven to be an interesting probe of dark energy. We show that magnification bias,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marilena LoVerde , Lam Hui , Enrique Gaztanaga

In the context of the study of the Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect (ISW), we construct a template of the projected density distribution up to $z\simeq 0.7$ by using the Luminous Galaxies (LGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR8. We use a…

We report on investigations of the power of next generation cosmic microwave background and large scale structure surveys in constraining the nature of dark energy through the cross-correlation of the Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marian Douspis , Patricia G. Castro , Chiara Caprini , Nabila Aghanim

Assuming General Relativity is correct on large-scales, Redshift-Space Distortions (RSDs) and the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect (ISW) are both sensitive to the time derivative of the linear growth function. We investigate the extent to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Charles Shapiro , Robert G. Crittenden , Will J. Percival

This work explores the potential to detect the nonlinear Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect, namely the Rees-Sciama effect (ISWRS), by cross-correlating current and future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments -- Simons Observatory,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Viviana Cuozzo , Marina Migliaccio , Matteo Calabrese , Carmelita Carbone

CMB photons redshift and blueshift as they move through gravitational potentials $\Phi$ while propagating across the Universe. If the potential is not constant in time, the photons will pick up a net redshift or blueshift, known as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Alex Krolewski , Simone Ferraro

The Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect probes the late-time expansion history of the universe, offering direct constraints on dark energy. Here we present our measurements of the ISW signal at redshifts of $\bar{z}=0.35$, $0.55$ and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-16 Behzad Ansarinejad , Ruari Mackenzie , Tom Shanks , Nigel Metcalfe

We investigate the cosmological information contained in the cross-correlation between the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy pattern and galaxy clusters from future wide surveys. Future surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-26 Mario Ballardini , Daniela Paoletti , Fabio Finelli , Lauro Moscardini , Barbara Sartoris , Luca Valenziano

We present a cross-correlation analysis of the WMAP cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies and the SDSS galaxy density fluctuations. We find significant detections of the angular CMB-galaxy correlation for both the flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pablo Fosalba , Enrique Gaztanaga , Francisco Castander

It has been around fifty years since R. K. Sachs and A. M. Wolfe predicted the existence of anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and ten years since the integrated Sachs Wolfe effect (ISW) was first detected observationally.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 Atsushi J. Nishizawa

Cosmic voids, vast underdensities in the large-scale structure, offer unique sensitivity to cosmological parameters. However, traditional 3D galaxy-based void finding is limited by many factors, including uncertainties in the galaxy-halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 C. T. Davies , M. Klein , A. Fumagalli , J. J. Mohr

Using a directional spherical wavelet analysis we detect the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect, indicated by a positive correlation between the first-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 J. D. McEwen , P. Vielva , M. P. Hobson , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , A. N. Lasenby

We present results for the cross-correlation between the WMAP 1st-year cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data and optical galaxy surveys: the APM and SDSS DR1 catalogs. Our measurement of a positive CMB-galaxy correlation on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pablo Fosalba , Enrique Gaztanaga , Francisco J. Castander

Peculiar velocities encode rich cosmological information, but their transverse components are hard to measure. Here, we present the first observations of a novel effect of transverse velocities: the dipole signatures that they imprint on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Yan-Chuan Cai , John A. Peacock , Anna de Graaff , Shadab Alam

The observed apparent acceleration of the universe is usually attributed to negative pressure from a mysterious dark energy. This acceleration causes the gravitational potential to decay, heating or cooling photons travelling through crests…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-10 Benjamin R. Granett , Mark C. Neyrinck , István Szapudi

We propose a novel method to probe the global 21-cm background. This background experiences the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect (ISW) as the cosmic microwave background does. The 21-cm ISW is modulated by the spectral shape of the global…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Kyungjin Ahn , Minji Oh

The scattering of temperature anisotropy quadrupole by free electrons in galaxy clusters leads to a now well-known polarization signal in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations. Using multi-frequency polarization data, one can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asantha Cooray , Daniel Baumann

The integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect provides us the information of the time evolution of gravitational potential. The cross-correlation between the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the large scale structure (LSS) is known as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Seokcheon Lee