English

Relativistic SZ maps and electron gas temperature spectroscopy

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-02-09 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

While third-generation CMB experiments have allowed to release the first maps of Compton-yy distortion due to thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect, next-generation CMB experiments should allow us to map also the electron gas temperature, TeT_{\rm e}, across the sky through the detection of relativistic corrections to the thermal SZ effect. We discuss about experimental requirements to break the yy-TeT_{\rm e} degeneracy of the observed SZ intensity, and propose a new component separation approach based on moment expansion to disentangle the yy and TeT_{\rm e} observables of the relativistic SZ effect while mitigating foregrounds. We show how our approach offers a new spectroscopic view of the clusters not only across frequencies but now also across temperatures. We also show how the relativistic electron temperature power spectrum provides a new cosmological observable which may complement the Compton-yy map power spectrum to break some of the parameter degeneracies in future cosmological SZ analyses.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.01474,
  title  = {Relativistic SZ maps and electron gas temperature spectroscopy},
  author = {Mathieu Remazeilles},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.01474},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference entitled "mm Universe @ NIKA2", Rome (Italy), June 2021, EPJ Web of conferences

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