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Planck intermediate results. XXXVII. Evidence of unbound gas from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

February 2016 • 2016A&A...586A.140P

Authors • Planck Collaboration • Ade, P. A. R. • Aghanim, N. • Arnaud, M. • Ashdown, M. • Aubourg, E. • Aumont, J. • Baccigalupi, C. • Banday, A. J. • Barreiro, R. B. • Bartolo, N. • Battaner, E. • Benabed, K. • Benoit-Lévy, A. • Bersanelli, M. • Bielewicz, P. • Bock, J. J. • Bonaldi, A. • Bonavera, L. • Bond, J. R. • Borrill, J. • Bouchet, F. R. • Burigana, C. • Calabrese, E. • Cardoso, J. -F. • Catalano, A. • Chamballu, A. • Chiang, H. C. • Christensen, P. R. • Clements, D. L. • Colombo, L. P. L. • Combet, C. • Crill, B. P. • Curto, A. • Cuttaia, F. • Danese, L. • Davies, R. D. • Davis, R. J. • de Bernardis, P. • de Zotti, G. • Delabrouille, J. • Dickinson, C. • Diego, J. M. • Dolag, K. • Donzelli, S. • Doré, O. • Douspis, M. • Ducout, A. • Dupac, X. • Efstathiou, G. • Elsner, F. • Enßlin, T. A. • Eriksen, H. K. • Finelli, F. • Forni, O. • Frailis, M. • Fraisse, A. A. • Franceschi, E. • Frejsel, A. • Galeotta, S. • Galli, S. • Ganga, K. • Génova-Santos, R. T. • Giard, M. • Gjerløw, E. • González-Nuevo, J. • Górski, K. M. • Gregorio, A. • Gruppuso, A. • Hansen, F. K. • Harrison, D. L. • Henrot-Versillé, S. • Hernández-Monteagudo, C. • Herranz, D. • Hildebrandt, S. R. • Hivon, E. • Hobson, M. • Hornstrup, A. • Huffenberger, K. M. • Hurier, G. • Jaffe, A. H. • Jaffe, T. R. • Jones, W. C. • Juvela, M. • Keihänen, E. • Keskitalo, R. • Kitaura, F. • Kneissl, R. • Knoche, J. • Kunz, M. • Kurki-Suonio, H. • Lagache, G. • Lamarre, J. -M. • Lasenby, A. • Lattanzi, M. • Lawrence, C. R. • Leonardi, R. • León-Tavares, J. • Levrier, F. • Liguori, M. • Lilje, P. B. • Linden-Vørnle, M. • López-Caniego, M. • Lubin, P. M. • Ma, Y. -Z. • Macías-Pérez, J. F. • Maffei, B. • Maino, D. • Mak, D. S. Y. • Mandolesi, N. • Mangilli, A. • Maris, M. • Martin, P. G. • Martínez-González, E. • Masi, S. • Matarrese, S. • McGehee, P. • Melchiorri, A. • Mennella, A. • Migliaccio, M. • Miville-Deschênes, M. -A. • Moneti, A. • Montier, L. • Morgante, G. • Mortlock, D. • Munshi, D. • Murphy, J. A. • Naselsky, P. • Nati, F. • Natoli, P. • Noviello, F. • Novikov, D. • Novikov, I. • Oxborrow, C. A. • Pagano, L. • Pajot, F. • Paoletti, D. • Perdereau, O. • Perotto, L. • Pettorino, V. • Piacentini, F. • Piat, M. • Pierpaoli, E. • Pointecouteau, E. • Polenta, G. • Ponthieu, N. • Pratt, G. W. • Puget, J. -L. • Puisieux, S. • Rachen, J. P. • Racine, B. • Reach, W. T. • Reinecke, M. • Remazeilles, M. • Renault, C. • Renzi, A. • Ristorcelli, I. • Rocha, G. • Rosset, C. • Rossetti, M. • Roudier, G. • Rubiño-Martín, J. A. • Rusholme, B. • Sandri, M. • Santos, D. • Savelainen, M. • Savini, G. • Scott, D. • Spencer, L. D. • Stolyarov, V. • Sudiwala, R. • Sunyaev, R. • Sutton, D. • Suur-Uski, A. -S. • Sygnet, J. -F. • Tauber, J. A. • Terenzi, L. • Toffolatti, L. • Tomasi, M. • Tucci, M. • Valenziano, L. • Valiviita, J. • Van Tent, B. • Vielva, P. • Villa, F. • Wade, L. A. • Wandelt, B. D. • Wang, W. • Wehus, I. K. • Yvon, D. • Zacchei, A. • Zonca, A.

Abstract • By looking at the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (kSZ) in Planck nominal mission data, we present a significant detection of baryons participating in large-scale bulk flows around central galaxies (CGs) at redshift z ≈ 0.1. We estimate the pairwise momentum of the kSZ temperature fluctuations at the positions of the Central Galaxy Catalogue (CGC) samples extracted from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR7) data. For the foreground-cleaned SEVEM, SMICA, NILC, and COMMANDER maps, we find 1.8-2.5σ detections of the kSZ signal, which are consistent with the kSZ evidence found in individualPlanck raw frequency maps, although lower than found in the WMAP-9yr W-band (3.3σ). We further reconstruct the peculiar velocity field from the CG density field, and compute for the first time the cross-correlation function between kSZ temperature fluctuations and estimates of CG radial peculiar velocities. This correlation function yields a 3.0-3.7σ detection of the peculiar motion of extended gas on Mpc scales in flows correlated up to distances of 80-100 h-1 Mpc. Both the pairwise momentum estimates and the kSZ temperature-velocity field correlation find evidence for kSZ signatures out to apertures of 8 arcmin and beyond, corresponding to a physical radius of >1 Mpc, more than twice the mean virial radius of halos. This is consistent with the predictions from hydrodynamical simulations that most of the baryons are outside the virialized halos. We fit a simple model, in which the temperature-velocity cross-correlation is proportional to the signal seen in a semi-analytic model built upon N-body simulations, and interpret the proportionality constant as an effective optical depth to Thomson scattering. We find τT = (1.4 ± 0.5) × 10-4; the simplest interpretation of this measurement is that much of the gas is in a diffuse phase, which contributes little signal to X-ray or thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich observations.

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