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Cosmology with the SZ spectrum: measuring the Universe's temperature with galaxy clusters

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-02-09 v1

Abstract

The hot gas in clusters of galaxies creates a distinctive spectral distortion in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The spectral signature of the SZ can be used to measure the CMB temperature at cluster redshift (TCMB(z)T_{\rm CMB}(z)) and to constrain the monopole of the y-type spectral distortion of the CMB spectrum. In this work, we start showing the measurements of TCMB(z)T_{\rm CMB}(z) for a sample extracted from the Second Catalog of galaxy clusters produced by Planck (PSZ2) and containing 75 clusters selected from CHEX-MATE. Then we show the forecasts for future CMB experiments about the constraints on the monopole of the y-type spectral distortion of the CMB spectrum via the spectrum of the SZE.

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@article{arxiv.2111.03427,
  title  = {Cosmology with the SZ spectrum: measuring the Universe's temperature with galaxy clusters},
  author = {Gemma Luzzi and Emanuele D'Angelo and Hervé Bourdin and Federico De Luca and Pasquale Mazzotta and Filippo Oppizzi and Gianluca Polenta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.03427},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

To appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference entitled "mm Universe @ NIKA2", Rome (Italy), June 2021, EPJ Web of conferences