PIRSA:10040097

Templates for the SZ Angular Power Spectrum

Trac, H. (2010). Templates for the SZ Angular Power Spectrum. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/10040097

Trac, Hy. Templates for the SZ Angular Power Spectrum. Perimeter Institute, Apr. 29, 2010, https://pirsa.org/10040097 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:10040097,
            doi = {10.48660/10040097},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/10040097},
            author = {Trac, Hy},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Templates for the SZ Angular Power Spectrum},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2010},
            month = {apr},
            note = {PIRSA:10040097 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Hy Trac Harvard University

Talk numberPIRSA:10040097
DOI10.48660/10040097
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Abstract

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has recently measured the CMB angular power spectrum from maps with arcminute resolution at 148 GHz. By fitting to a template for the SZ angular power spectrum, we constrain the model's amplitude A_SZ < 1.63 (95% confidence level) and the amplitude of matter perturbations sigma_8 < 0.86 (95% CL). In this talk, we review the fiducial template and present additional templates for the SZ angular power spectrum based on different models for the hot gas in dark matter halos. We also discuss how the TSZ, KSZ, and SZ power spectra scale with sigma_8.