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The relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect can be used to measure intracluster gas temperatures independently of X-ray spectroscopy. Here, we use the large-volume FLAMINGO simulation suite to determine whether SZ $y$-weighted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Scott T. Kay , Joey Braspenning , Jens Chluba , John C. Helly , Roi Kugel , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

We present an analysis of observations made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) of six galaxy clusters in a redshift range of 0.16--0.41. The cluster gas is modelled using the…

The advent of high-resolution imaging of galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) provides a unique probe of the astrophysics of the intracluster medium (ICM) out to high redshifts. To investigate the effects of cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 John J. Ruan , Thomas R. Quinn , Arif Babul

In the coming years, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) measurements can dramatically improve our understanding of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) and the role of feedback processes on galaxy formation, allowing us to calibrate important astrophysical…

Measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (S-Z) effect towards distant clusters of galaxies can be used to determine the Hubble constant and the radial component of cluster peculiar velocities. Determination of the cluster peculiar velocity…

Scaling relations among galaxy cluster observables, which will become available in large future samples of galaxy clusters, could be used to constrain not only cluster structure, but also cosmology. We study the utility of this approach,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Cien Shang , Zoltan Haiman , Licia Verde

We analyze measurements of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect arising in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of $L^*$ galaxies, reported by Bregman et al. 2022 and Das et al. 2023. In our analysis we use the Faerman et al. 2017 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-14 Yossi Oren , Amiel Sternberg , Christopher F. McKee , Yakov Faerman , Shy Genel

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect of galaxy clusters is characterized by three parameters: Compton parameter, electron temperature and cluster peculiar velocity. In the present study we consider the problem of extracting these parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nabila Aghanim , Steen H. Hansen , Sergio Pastor , Dmitry V. Semikoz

We investigate how strongly and at what scales the Sunyaev- Zel'dovich effect reflects the shifting balance between the two processes that compete for governing the density and the thermodynamic state of the hot intra-cluster medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Cavaliere , N. Menci

We present VSA observations (~34GHz) on scales ~20 arcmin towards a complete, X-ray-flux-limited sample of seven clusters at redshift z<0.1. Four have significant SZ detections in the presence of CMB primordial anisotropy. We use a bayesian…

We discuss the possibility to constrain the relation between redshift and temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using multifrequency Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) observations. We have simulated a catalog of clusters of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cathy Horellou , Martin Nord , Daniel Johansson , Anna Levy

The Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from galaxy clusters is one of the most powerful cosmological tools for investigating the large-scale Universe. The big advantage of the SZ effect is its redshift independence, which is not the case for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Conte , M. De Petris , B. Comis , L. Lamagna , S. De Gregori

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a window into the astrophysical processes of galaxy clusters, and relativistic corrections (the "rSZ") promise to provide a global census of the gas feedback within clusters. Upcoming wide-field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 L. Kuhn , Z. Li , William R. Coulton

Recent measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) angular power spectrum from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) demonstrate the importance of understanding baryon physics when using the SZ power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Sun , N. Sehgal , G. M. Voit , M. Donahue , C. Jones , W. Forman , A. Vikhlinin , C. Sarazin

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a powerful tool for studying clusters of galaxies and cosmology. Large mm-wave telescopes are now routinely detecting and mapping the SZ effect in a number of clusters, measure their comptonisation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-09 Paolo de Bernardis , Sergio Colafrancesco , Giuseppe D' Alessandro , Luca Lamagna , Paolo Marchegiani , Silvia Masi , Alessandro Schillaci

X-ray observations of an "entropy floor" in nearby groups and clusters of galaxies offer evidence that important non-gravitational processes, such as radiative cooling and/or "preheating", have strongly influenced the evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ian G. McCarthy , Arif Babul , Gilbert P. Holder , Michael L. Balogh

SPT-CLJ2040-4451 -- spectroscopically confirmed at z = 1.478 -- is the highest redshift galaxy cluster yet discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. SPT-CLJ2040-4451 was a candidate galaxy cluster identified in the first 720 deg^2 of…

We investigate the contamination of the Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) effect for six galaxy clusters, A1689, A1995, A2142, A2163, A2261, and A2390, observed by the Y. T. Lee Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy during 2007. With the range…