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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

In a flat universe dominated by dark energy, the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect can be detected as a large-angle cross-correlation between the CMB and a tracer of large scale structure. We investigate whether the inconclusive ISW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-07 C. L. Francis , J. A. Peacock

We use the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect, by now detectable at $\sim 5\sigma$ within the context of $\Lambda{}$CDM cosmologies, to place strong constraints on dynamical dark energy theories. Working within an effective field theory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-18 Emeric Seraille , Johannes Noller , Blake D. Sherwin

I present to this conference our latest measurements of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect. After a brief review of the reasons for which this effect arises and of the technique to detect it by cross-correlating the cosmic microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-26 Tommaso Giannantonio

We present an analysis of the constraining power of future measurements of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect on models of the equation of state of dark energy as a function of redshift, w(z). To achieve this, we employ a new…

The integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as measured through its correlation with galaxies provides a unique opportunity to study the dynamics of the dark energy through its large scale clustering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Wayne Hu , Ryan Scranton

The late integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect correlates the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies with foreground cosmic large-scale structures. As the correlation depends crucially on the growth history in the era of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-16 Julian Adamek , Yann Rasera , Pier Stefano Corasaniti , Jean-Michel Alimi

The integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect is a property of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), in which photons from the CMB are gravitationally redshifted, causing the anisotropies in the CMB. An intriguing question is whether one can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Julianne Chung , Yiran Wang

On large scales, the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) reflect not only the primordial field but also the energy gain when photons traverse decaying gravitational potentials of large scales structure, the Integrated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-31 A. Manzotti , S. Dodelson

The evolution of the gravitational potentials on large scales due to the accelerated expansion of the Universe is an important and independent probe of dark energy, known as the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect. We measure this ISW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-05 Benedict Bahr-Kalus , David Parkinson , Jacobo Asorey , Stefano Camera , Catherine Hale , Fei Qin

The Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect (ISW) measures the decay of the gravitational potential due to cosmic acceleration and is thus a direct probe of Dark Energy. In some of the earlier studies, the amplitude of the ISW effect was found to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-29 Simone Ferraro , Blake D. Sherwin , David N. Spergel

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 derive the Fermat potential for a spherically symmetric lens embedded in an FLRW cosmology and use it to investigate the late-time integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect, i.e., secondary temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-17 Bin Chen , Ronald Kantowski , Xinyu Dai

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

The subject of this paper is the derivation of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (iSW) effect in cosmologies with coupled dark matter and dark energy fluids. These couplings influence the iSW-effect in three ways: The Hubble function assumes a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-07 Bjoern Malte Schaefer

A crucial diagnostic of the \Lambda CDM cosmological model is the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect of large-scale structure on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The ISW imprint of superstructures of size \sim100\;h^{-1} Mpc at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-29 Seshadri Nadathur , Shaun Hotchkiss , Subir Sarkar

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

We present a global measurement of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect obtained by cross-correlating all relevant large scale galaxy data sets with the cosmic microwave background radiation map provided by the Wilkinson Microwave…

In this review, I outline the use of galaxy correlations to constrain cosmological parameters. As with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the density of dark and baryonic matter imprints important scales on the fluctuations of matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert C. Nichol

We show in detail that the recently derived expression for evaluating the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) temperature shift in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) caused by individual embedded (compensated) lenses is equivalent to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-07 R. Kantowski , B. Chen , X. Dai