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The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect and the X-ray emission offer separate and highly complementary probes of the thermodynamics of the intracluster medium, particularly on their radial dependence. We already released \texttt{JoXSZ},…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Fabio Castagna , Stefano Andreon , Alberto Trombetta , Marco Landoni

The masses of galaxy clusters are a key tool to constrain cosmology through the physics of large-scale structure formation and accretion. Mass estimates based on X-ray and Sunyaev--Zel'dovich measurements have been found to be affected by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Anna Silvia Baldi , Marco De Petris , Federico Sembolini , Gustavo Yepes , Weiguang Cui , Luca Lamagna

The Sunyaev-Zel'dolvich (SZ) effect is expected to be instrumental in measuring velocities of distant clusters in near future telescope surveys. We simplify the calculation of peculiar velocities of galaxy clusters using deep learning…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Yuyu Wang , Nesar Ramachandra , Edgar M. Salazar-Canizales , Hume A. Feldman , Richard Watkins , Klaus Dolag

Galaxy clusters are the largest self-gravitational systems in the Universe. They are valuable probes of the structure growth of the Universe when we estimate their peculiar velocities with the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effects. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-03 Kaiyi Du , Yong Shi , Tao Wang , Chenggang Shu

Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) surveys find massive clusters of galaxies by measuring the inverse Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background off of intra-cluster gas. The cluster selection function from such surveys is expected to be nearly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Henry W. Lin , Michael McDonald , Bradford Benson , Eric Miller

We present initial results from our ongoing program to image the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in galaxy clusters at 143 GHz using Bolocam; five clusters and one blank field are described in this manuscript. The images have a resolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-18 Jack Sayers , Sunil R. Golwala , Silvia Ameglio , Elena Pierpaoli

Galaxy clusters detected through the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect are a powerful cosmological probe from which constraints on cosmological parameters such as $\Omega_{\mathrm{m}}$ and $\sigma_8$ can be derived. The measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Íñigo Zubeldia , Jens Chluba , Richard Battye

Nearby galaxy clusters can potentially induce sub-microkelvin polarization signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at characteristic scales of a few arcminutes. We explore four such polarization signals induced in a rich nearby…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Mark Mirmelstein , Meir Shimon , Yoel Rephaeli

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

Using WMAP 3-year data at the locations of close to $\sim 700$ X-ray selected clusters we have detected the amplitude of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (TSZ) effect at the 15$\sigma$ level, the highest statistical significance reported so…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Atrio-Barandela , A. Kashlinsky , D. Kocevski , H. Ebeling

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

We estimate the power spectrum of SZ(Sunyaev-Zel'dovich)-effect-induced temperature fluctuations on sub-degree scales by using the cross correlation between the three-year WMAP maps and 2MASS galaxy distribution. We produced the SZ effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Liang Cao , Jiren Liu , Li-Zhi Fang

We perform the first joint analysis of galaxy clustering (GC) and the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect to simultaneously constrain cosmological and astrophysical parameters in this work, utilizing a combination of the Atacama…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Shaohong Li , Yi Zheng

We use the high quality pressure profiles of 239 galaxy clusters made available by the ACCEPT project (Cavagnolo et al. 2009) in order to derive the expected Sunyaev Zeldovich (SZ) signal in a variety of cases that hardly find a counterpart…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Pipino , E. Pierpaoli

We propose to use spatial correlations of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (KSZ) flux as an estimator of the peculiar velocity power spectrum. In contrast with conventional techniques, our new method does not require measurements of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Pengjie Zhang , Hume A. Feldman , Roman Juszkiewicz , Albert Stebbins

We analyse the maps of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signal of local galaxy clusters ($z<0.1$) observed by the $Planck$ satellite in order to classify their dynamical state through morphological features. To study the morphology of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Valentina Capalbo , Marco De Petris , Antonio Ferragamo , Weiguang Cui , Florian Ruppin , Gustavo Yepes

Cooling flows, cluster mergers and motions of galaxies through the cluster gas with supersonic and sonic velocities must lead to large scale motions of the intracluster medium (ICM). A high-resolution numerical simulation of X-ray cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rashid A. Sunyaev , Michael L. Norman , Greg L. Bryan

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect has now become a clear target for ongoing and future studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and cosmology. Aside from the bulk cluster motion, internal motions also lead to a kSZ signal.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Edoardo Altamura , Scott T. Kay , Jens Chluba , Imogen Towler

Upcoming millimeter experiments that probe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) will observe tens of thousands of galaxy clusters through the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. tSZ selected clusters are powerful probes of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Dylan Cromer , Nicholas Battaglia , Mathew S. Madhavacheril