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- M. N. Bremer
- 1H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL
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- J. Silk
- 2Department of Physics, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH
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- L. J. M. Davies
- 1H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL
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- M. D. Lehnert
- 3Laboratoire d'Etudes des Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique et Instrumentation GEPI, UMR8111, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, 92195, France
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We have carried out a redshift survey using the VIMOS spectrograph on the VLT towards the cosmic microwave background cold spot. A possible cause of the cold spot is the Integrated Sachs–Wolfe effect imprinted by an extremely large void (hundreds of Mpc in linear dimension) at intermediate or low redshifts. The redshift distribution of over seven hundred z < 1 emission-line galaxies drawn from an I-band flux limited sample of galaxies in the direction of the cold spot shows no evidence of a gap on scales of Δz≳ 0.05 as would be expected if such a void existed at 0.35 < z < 1. There are troughs in the redshift distribution on smaller scales (Δz≈ 0.01) indicating that smaller scale voids may connect regions separated by several degrees towards the cold spot. A comparison of this distribution with that generated from similarly sized subsamples drawn from widely spaced pointings of the VVDS survey does not indicate that the redshift distribution towards the cold spot is anomalous or that these small gaps can be uniquely attributed to real voids.</jats:p>
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- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 404 (1), L69-L73, 2010-05-01
Oxford University Press (OUP)