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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

We investigate the impact of spatial variations in the ionized fraction during reionization on temperature anisotropies in the CMB. We combine simulations of large scale structure to describe the underlying density field with an analytic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Oliver Zahn , Matias Zaldarriaga , Lars Hernquist , Matthew McQuinn

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect was first predicted nearly five decades ago, but has only recently become a mature tool for performing high resolution studies of the warm and hot ionized gas in and between galaxies, groups, and clusters.…

X-ray cavities and extended radio sources (`cocoons') surrounding active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been detected by the Chandra X-ray mission and radio interferometers. A joint analysis of X-ray and radio maps suggests that pressure values…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 D. A. Prokhorov , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , J. Silk

The Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a global distortion of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) spectrum as a result of its interaction with a hot electron plasma in the intracluster medium of large structures gravitationally viralized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Alexander Bonilla , Jairo E. Castillo

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

The power spectrum of unresolved thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) clusters is extremely sensitive to the amplitude of the matter fluctuations. This paper present an analysis of the tSZ power spectrum using temperature power spectra of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 George Efstathiou , Fiona McCarthy

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects are produced by the interaction of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons with the ionized and diffuse gas of electrons inside galaxy clusters integrated along the line of sight. The two main effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 G. Hurier

Future ground-based CMB experiments will generate competitive large-scale structure datasets by precisely characterizing CMB secondary anisotropies over a large fraction of the sky. We describe a method for constraining the growth rate of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 David Alonso , Thibaut Louis , Philip Bull , Pedro G. Ferreira

In recent years, the study of secondary anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background has become a fundamental instrument to test our understanding of the Universe. Using a set of lightcones produced with the ``Dark Energy and Massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Davide Luchina , Mauro Roncarelli , Matteo Calabrese , Giulio Fabbian , Carmelita Carbone

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

We study here an alternative technique to probe the Dark Ages (DA) and the Epoch of Reonization (EoR) that makes use of the Comptonization of the CMB spectrum modified by physical effects occurring during this epoch related to the emergence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 S. Colafrancesco , P. Marchegiani , M. S. Emritte

Measurements of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect have long been recognized as a powerful cosmological probe. Here we assess the importance of relativistic temperature corrections to the tSZ signal on the power spectrum analysis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Mathieu Remazeilles , Boris Bolliet , Aditya Rotti , Jens Chluba

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect offers an indirect way to reconstruct large-scale cosmic velocities, by correlating high-resolution CMB temperature maps with galaxy surveys. In this work, we present the first three-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Selim C. Hotinli , Kendrick M. Smith , Simone Ferraro

The recent emergence of detections of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect through cross-correlation techniques is encouraging for the prospects of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. Extracting information on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-20 Nicholas Battaglia

Density-reconstruction sharpens the baryon acoustic oscillations signal by undoing some of the smoothing incurred by nonlinear structure formation. In this paper we present an analytical model for reconstruction based on the Zeldovich…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-18 Shi-Fan Chen , Zvonimir Vlah , Martin White

21 cm intensity mapping (IM) has the potential to be a strong and unique probe of cosmology from redshift of order unity to redshift potentially as high as 30. For post-reionization 21 cm observations, the signal is modulated by the thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Heyang Long , Catalina Morales-Gutiérrez , Paulo Montero-Camacho , Christopher M. Hirata

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

The Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) signal is highly non-Gaussian, so the SZ power spectrum (along with the mean $y$ parameter) does not provide a complete description of the SZ effect. Therefore, SZ-based constraints on cosmological parameters and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pengjie Zhang , Ravi K. Sheth

The measurement of the brightness temperature fluctuations of neutral hydrogen 21 cm lines from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) is expected to be a powerful tool for revealing the reionisation process. We study the 21 cm cross-correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-07 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Nabila Aghanim , Mathieu Langer , Marian Douspis , Saleem Zaroubi , Vibor Jelic