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We discuss the possibility of studying diffuse baryon distributions with kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect by correlating cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations with density fluctuations from 21\,cm intensity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Dongzi Li , Hong-Ming Zhu , Ue-Li Pen

Compton scattering of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from hot ionized gas produces a range of effects, and the leading order effects are the kinetic and thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ and tSZ) effects. In the near future, CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 William R. Coulton , Atsuhisa Ota , Alexander van Engelen

The thermal Sunyaev$-$Zel'dovich (SZ) effect offers a unique probe of the hot and diffuse universe that could help close the missing baryon problem. Traditional extractions of the SZ effect, however, exhibit systematic noise that may lead…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Cameron T. Pratt , Zhijie Qu , Joel N. Bregman

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich thermal (tSZ) and kinetic (kSZ) effects can be used to constrain the thermodynamic properties of pressure and density, respectively, of galaxies and their surrounding regions. As SZ observations continue to improve, it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-21 Emily Moser , Nicholas Battaglia , Stefania Amodeo

We discuss non-Gaussian effects associated with the local large-scale structure contributions to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies through the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The non-Gaussianities associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Asantha Cooray

The hot gas embedded in the large-scale structures in the Universe produces secondary fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Because it is proportional to the gas pressure integrated along the line of sight, this effect, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Alexandre Refregier , Romain Teyssier

In recent years, observations of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect have had significant cosmological implications and have begun to serve as a powerful and independent probe of the warm and hot gas that pervades the Universe. As a few…

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

A matched filter technique is applied to the Planck all-sky Compton y-parameter map to measure the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect produced by galaxy groups of different halo masses selected from large redshift surveys in the low-z…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Seunghwan Lim , Houjun Mo , Ran Li , Yue Liu , Yin-Zhe Ma , Huiyuan Wang , Xiaohu Yang

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 kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal is a powerful probe of the cosmic baryon distribution. The kSZ signal is proportional to the integrated free electron momentum rather than the electron pressure (which sources the thermal SZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-02 Simone Ferraro , J. Colin Hill , Nick Battaglia , Jia Liu , David N. Spergel

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a direct probe of thermal energy content of the Universe, induced in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky through scattering of CMB photons off hot electrons in the intracluster medium (ICM). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Niayesh Afshordi , Yen-Ting Lin , Daisuke Nagai , Alastair J. R. Sanderson

We construct the mean thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) Comptonization y profile around Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.16 < z < 0.47 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) using the Planck y map.…

The gas density profile around galaxies, shaped by feedback and affecting the galaxy lensing signal, is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (kSZ). We precisely measure this effect…

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect induces a Compton-$y$ distortion in cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps that is sensitive to a line of sight integral of the ionized gas pressure. By correlating the positions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 S. Pandey , E. J. Baxter , J. C. Hill

We propose a new analysis of small scale CMB data by introducing the cosmological dependency of the foreground signals, focusing first on the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) power spectrum, derived from the halo model. We analyse the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Marian Douspis , Laura Salvati , Adélie Gorce , Nabila Aghanim

We use the cosmo-OWLS suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, which includes different galactic feedback models, to predict the cross-correlation signal between weak gravitational lensing and the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-15 Alireza Hojjati , Ian G. McCarthy , Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Yin-Zhe Ma , Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Gary Hinshaw , Amandine M. C. Le Brun

We develop a model for the power spectrum of unresolved clusters of galaxies arising from the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. The model is based on a'universal' gas pressure profile constrained by X-ray observations and includes a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 George Efstathiou , Marina Migliaccio

The relation between the mass and integrated electron pressure of galaxy group and cluster halos can be probed by stacking maps of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect. Perhaps surprisingly, recent observational results have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 J. Colin Hill , Eric J. Baxter , Adam Lidz , Johnny P. Greco , Bhuvnesh Jain