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Weak lensing surveys are expected to provide direct measurements of the statistics of the projected dark matter distribution. Most analytical studies of weak lensing statistics have been limited to quasilinear scales as they relied on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dipak Munshi , Bhuvnesh Jain

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, i.e., the Doppler boost of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons caused by their scattering off free electrons in galaxy clusters and groups with non-zero bulk velocity, is a powerful window…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Boris Bolliet , J. Colin Hill , Simone Ferraro , Aleksandra Kusiak , Alex Krolewski

We investigate the weak lensing signature of primordial non-Gaussianities of the local type by constraining the magnitude of the weak convergence bi- and trispectra expected for the EUCLID weak lensing survey. Starting from expressions for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Alessandra Grassi , Lavinia Heisenberg , Chris T. Byrnes , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

The problem of detecting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) clusters in multifrequency CMB observations is investigated using a number of filtering techniques. A multifilter approach is introduced, which optimizes the detection of SZ clusters on…

We present a joint analysis of the power spectra of the Planck Compton $y$-parameter map and the projected galaxy density field using the Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) all-sky survey. We detect the statistical correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Ayodeji Ibitoye , Denis Tramonte , Yin-Zhe Ma , Wei-Ming Dai

Future data sets will enable cross-correlations between redshift space distortions (RSD) and weak lensing (WL). While photometric lensing and clustering cross-correlations have provided some of the tightest cosmological constraints to date,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Peter L. Taylor , Katarina Markovič , Alkistis Pourtsidou , Eric Huff

We describe a fast method to simulate in a semi-analytical way consistent maps of the thermal, kinetic and polarised Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, featuring both cluster spatial correlations and large scale velocity flows.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Delabrouille , J. -B. Melin , J. G. Bartlett

The next generation of weak lensing surveys will measure the matter distribution of the local Universe with unprecedented precision, allowing the resolution of non-Gaussian features of the convergence field. This encourages the use of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-17 Dominik Zürcher , Janis Fluri , Virginia Ajani , Silvan Fischbacher , Alexandre Refregier , Tomasz Kacprzak

We measure the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) skewness power spectrum in $\textit{Planck}$, using frequency maps of the HFI instrument and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) component map. The two-to-one skewness power spectrum measures the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Nicholas Timmons , Asantha Cooray , Chang Feng , Brian Keating

General relativity predicts that the rotational momentum flux of matter twists the spacetime via a vector gravitomagnetic (frame-dragging) field, which remains undetected in cosmology. This vector field induces an additional gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Cristian Barrera-Hinojosa , Baojiu Li , Yan-Chuan Cai

Many recent studies have demonstrated that scaling arguments, such as the so-called hierarchical {\em ansatz}, are extremely useful in understanding the statistical properties of weak gravitational lensing. This is especially true on small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dipak Munshi , Peter Coles

Weak gravitational lensing on a cosmological scales can provide strong constraints both on the nature of dark matter and the dark energy equation of state. Most current weak lensing studies are restricted to (two-dimensional) projections,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dipak Munshi , Alan Heavens , Peter Coles

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of cosmology, with second-order shear statistics commonly used to constrain parameters such as the matter density $\Omega_\mathrm{m}$ and the clustering amplitude $S_8$. However, parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Niek Wielders , Laila Linke , Pierre A. Burger , Sven Heydenreich , Lucas Porth , Peter Schneider

In the context of a cosmological study of the bulk flows in the Universe, we present a detailed study of the statistical properties of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. We first compute analytically the correlation function and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , L. Verde , Raul Jimenez , D. N. Spergel

By the time that the first phase of the Square Kilometre Array is deployed it will be able to perform state of the art Large Scale Structure (LSS) as well as Weak Gravitational Lensing (WGL) measurements of the distribution of matter in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Donnacha Kirk , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy , Filipe B. Abdalla , Philip Bull , Benjamin Joachimi

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

Using available optical and X-ray catalogues of clusters and superclusters of galaxies, we build templates of tSZ emission as they should be detected by the WMAP experiment. We compute the cross-correlation of our templates with WMAP…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , J. A. Rubino-Martin

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect, the inverse-Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off high-energy electrons, is a powerful probe of hot, ionized gas in the Universe. It is often measured via…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Kristen M. Surrao , Shivam Pandey , J. Colin Hill , Eric J. Baxter

Upcoming multi-wavelength astronomical surveys will soon discover all massive galaxy clusters and provide unprecedented constraints on cosmology and cluster astrophysics. In this paper, we investigate the constraining power of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Masato Shirasaki , Erwin T. Lau , Daisuke Nagai
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