The integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect predicts additional anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) due to time variation of the gravitational potential when the expansion of the Universe is not matter dominated. The ISW effect is therefore expected in the early Universe, due to the presence of relativistic particles at recombination, and in the late Universe, when dark energy starts to dominate the expansion. Deviations from the standard picture can be parametrized by A(eISW) and A(lISW), which rescale the overall amplitude of the early and late ISW effects. Analyzing the most recent CMB temperature spectra from the Planck 2015 release, we detect the presence of the early ISW at high significance with A(eISW) = 1.06 +/- 0.04 at 68% C.L. and an upper limit for the late ISW of A(lISW) < 1.1 at 95% C.L. The inclusion of the recent polarization data from the Planck experiment results in A(eISW) = 0.999 +/- 0.028 at 68% C.L., in better agreement with the value A(eISW) = 1 of a standard cosmology. When considering the recent detections of the late ISW coming from correlations between CMB temperature anisotropies and weak lensing, a value of A(lISW) = 0.85 +/- 0.21 is predicted at 68% C.L., showing 4 sigma evidence. We discuss the stability of our result in the case of an extra relativistic energy component parametrized by the effective neutrino number N-eff and of a CMB lensing amplitude A(L).

Constraints on the early and late integrated Sachs-Wolfe effects from the Planck 2015 cosmic microwave background anisotropies in the angular power spectra

Pagano, Luca;
2015

Abstract

The integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect predicts additional anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) due to time variation of the gravitational potential when the expansion of the Universe is not matter dominated. The ISW effect is therefore expected in the early Universe, due to the presence of relativistic particles at recombination, and in the late Universe, when dark energy starts to dominate the expansion. Deviations from the standard picture can be parametrized by A(eISW) and A(lISW), which rescale the overall amplitude of the early and late ISW effects. Analyzing the most recent CMB temperature spectra from the Planck 2015 release, we detect the presence of the early ISW at high significance with A(eISW) = 1.06 +/- 0.04 at 68% C.L. and an upper limit for the late ISW of A(lISW) < 1.1 at 95% C.L. The inclusion of the recent polarization data from the Planck experiment results in A(eISW) = 0.999 +/- 0.028 at 68% C.L., in better agreement with the value A(eISW) = 1 of a standard cosmology. When considering the recent detections of the late ISW coming from correlations between CMB temperature anisotropies and weak lensing, a value of A(lISW) = 0.85 +/- 0.21 is predicted at 68% C.L., showing 4 sigma evidence. We discuss the stability of our result in the case of an extra relativistic energy component parametrized by the effective neutrino number N-eff and of a CMB lensing amplitude A(L).
2015
Cabass, Giovanni; Gerbino, Martina; Giusarma, Elena; Melchiorri, Alessandro; Pagano, Luca; Salvati, Laura
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