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We study the prospects for extracting detailed statistical properties of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect associated with large scale structure using upcoming multifrequency CMB experiments. The greatest obstacle to detecting the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Asantha Cooray , Wayne Hu , Max Tegmark

The Planck satellite was launched in 2009 by the European Space Agency to study the properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). An expected result of the Planck data analysis is the distinction of the various contaminants of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-27 Camila Paiva Novaes , Carlos Alexandre Wuensche

With the advent of current and future high-resolution CMB experiments, the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect has become a unique observational probe of the distribution of baryons and velocities in the Universe. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-14 Raagini Patki , Nicholas Battaglia , J. Colin Hill

In this work, we leverage CMB data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and LSS data from the imaging survey conducted by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) to study the distribution of gas around galaxy groups at low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Simone Ferraro , Rongpu Zhou

About 90% of baryons in the universe have thus far escaped direct observation. This is known as the {\it missing baryon problem}. The Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (SZ effect) has the potential to directly measure the state of the majority of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. J. Zhang , U. L. Pen

Using a thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) signal, we search for hot gas in superclusters identified using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS/DR7) galaxies. We stack a Comptonization y map produced by the Planck Collaboration…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 H. Tanimura , N. Aghanim , M. Douspis , A. Beelen , V. Bonjean

The improving sensitivity of measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect opens a new window into the thermodynamic properties of the baryons in halos. We propose a methodology to constrain these thermodynamic properties by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Nicholas Battaglia , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan , David Spergel

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) and patchy screening effect are two complementary cosmic microwave background (CMB) probes of the reionization era. The kSZ effect is a relatively strong signal, but is difficult to disentangle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Darby Kramer , Alexander van Engelen , Christopher Cain , Niall MacCrann , Hy Trac , Skylar Grayson , Evan Scannapieco , Blake Sherwin

The baryonic feedback effect is an important systematic error in the weak lensing (WL) analysis. It contributes partly to the $S_8$ tension in the literature. With the next generations of large scale structure (LSS) and CMB experiments, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 Yi Zheng , Pengjie Zhang

We explore a new approach for extracting reionization-era contributions to the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. Our method utilizes the cross-power spectrum between filtered and squared maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Paul La Plante , Jackson Sipple , Adam Lidz

We present and study a new cross-pairwise estimator to extract the kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich (kSZ) signal from galaxy clusters. The existing pairwise kSZ method involves pairing clusters with other clusters and stacking them. In the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-05 Aritra Kumar Gon , Rishi Khatri

We report the first detection of a correlation between gravitational lensing by large scale structure and the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. Using the mass map from the Canada France Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-22 Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Gary Hinshaw , Norman Murray

We present the first joint analysis of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect with galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) for CMASS galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We show these complementary probes can disentangle…

Approximately half of the Universe's baryons are in a form that has been hard to detect directly. However, the missing component can be traced through the cross-correlation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect with weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Yin-Zhe Ma , Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Gary Hinshaw , Alireza Hojjati , Douglas Scott , Joe Zuntz

Observations of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the local universe can account for only $\sim\,10\%$ of the total baryon content. Cosmological simulations predict that the `missing baryons' are spread throughout filamentary structures in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Anna de Graaff , Yan-Chuan Cai , Catherine Heymans , John A. Peacock

The pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal from galaxy clusters is a probe of their line-of-sight momenta, and thus a potentially valuable source of cosmological information. In addition to the momenta, the amplitude of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-04 Samuel Flender , Lindsey Bleem , Hal Finkel , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Gilbert Holder

We detect the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich imprint of peculiar motions of galaxy groups and clusters, using the photometric DESI Legacy Survey together with cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Finn A. Roper , Yan-Chuan Cai , John A. Peacock

A complete census of baryons in the late universe is a long-standing challenge due to the intermediate temperate and rarefied character of the majority of cosmic gas. To gain insight into this problem, we extract measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jonas Chaves-Montero , Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Raul E. Angulo , J. D. Emberson

We measure the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, imprinted by maxBCG clusters, on the Planck SMICA map of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Our measurement, for the first time, directly accounts for uncertainties in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-07 Nhat-Minh Nguyen , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Fabian Schmidt

Detection of the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) using Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE) surveys is an intriguing possibility, and one that may allow observers to quantify the amount of "missing baryons" in the WHIM phase. We estimate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Eric J. Hallman , Brian W. O'Shea , Britton D. Smith , Jack O. Burns , Michael L. Norman