The integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and the SKA

ADetection of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect

We have detected statistically significant correlations between the cosmic microwave background and two tracers of large-scale structure, the HEAO1 A2 full sky hard X-ray map (Boldt, 1987) and the NVSS 1.4 GHz, nearly full sky radio galaxy survey (Condon et al., 1998). The level of correlations in these maps is consistent with that predicted for the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect in the co...

Combined analysis of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and cosmological implications

Statistics of rare objects and the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect in ΛCDM N-body simulations

ar X iv : g r - qc / 0 60 60 30 v 1 7 J un 2 00 6 Chaplygin gas in light of recent integrated Sachs – Wolfe effect data

We investigate the possibility of constraining Chaplygin dark energy models with current Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect data. In the case of a flat universe we found that generalized Chaplygin gas models must have an energy density such that Ωc > 0.55 and an equation of state w < −0.6 at 95% c.l.. We also investigate the recently proposed Silent Chaplygin models, constraining Ωc > 0.55 and w < −...

Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect in the era of precision cosmology

Recent detections of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect through the correlation of the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy with traces of large scale structure provided independent evidence for the expansion of the universe being dominated by something other than matter. Even with perfect data, statistical errors will limit the accuracy of such measurements to worse than 10%. On t...