More out of less: an excess integrated Sachs–Wolfe signal from supervoids mapped out by the Dark Energy Survey. Issue 4 (6th February 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kovács, A; Sánchez, C; García-Bellido, J; Elvin-Poole, J; Hamaus, N; Miranda, V; Nadathur, S; Abbott, T; Abdalla, F B; Annis, J; Avila, S; Bertin, E; Brooks, D; Burke, D L; Carnero Rosell, A; Carrasco Kind, M; Carretero, J; Cawthon, R; Crocce, M; Cunha, C; da Costa, L N; Davis, C; De Vicente, J; DePoy, D; Desai, S; Diehl, H T; Doel, P; Fernandez, E; Flaugher, B; Fosalba, P; Frieman, J; Gaztañaga, E; Gerdes, D; Gruendl, R; Gutierrez, G; Hartley, W; Hollowood, D L; Honscheid, K; Hoyle, B; James, D J; Krause, E; Kuehn, K; Kuropatkin, N; Lahav, O; Lima, M; Maia, M; March, M; Marshall, J; Melchior, P; Menanteau, F; Miller, C J; Miquel, R; Mohr, J; Plazas, A A; Romer, K; Rykoff, E; Sanchez, E; Scarpine, V; Schindler, R; Schubnell, M; Sevilla-Noarbe, I; Smith, M; Smith, R C; Soares-Santos, M; Sobreira, F; Suchyta, E; Swanson, M; Tarle, G; Thomas, D; Vikram, V; Weller, J;
• Is Part Of: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Volume 484:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 5267
• Page End: 5277
• Publication Date: 2019-02-06
• Subjects: cosmic background radiation -- large-scale structure of Universe; Astronomy -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 520.5
• DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz341
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0035-8711

Abstract

Abstract: The largest structures in the cosmic web probe the dynamical nature of dark energy through their integrated Sachs–Wolfe imprints. In the strength of the signal, typical cosmic voids have shown good consistency with expectation A ISW = Δ T data /Δ T theory = 1, given the substantial cosmic variance. Discordantly, large-scale hills in the gravitational potential, or supervoids, have shown excess signals. In this study, we mapped out 87 new supervoids in the total 5000 deg 2 footprint of the Dark Energy Survey at 0.2 < $z$ < 0.9 to probe these anomalous claims. We found an excess imprinted profile with A ISW ≈ 4.1 ± 2.0 amplitude. The combination with independent BOSS data reveals an ISW imprint of supervoids at the 3.3σ significance level with an enhanced A ISW ≈ 5.2 ± 1.6 amplitude. The tension with ΛCDM predictions is equivalent to 2.6σ and remains unexplained.