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We present the first three-frequency South Pole Telescope (SPT) cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectra. The band powers presented here cover angular scales 2000 < ell < 9400 in frequency bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz. At…

The study of neutrinos in astrophysics requires the combination of different observational probes. The temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background induced via the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect may provide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Mauro Roncarelli , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Marco Baldi

We explore a new approach for extracting reionization-era contributions to the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. Our method utilizes the cross-power spectrum between filtered and squared maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Paul La Plante , Jackson Sipple , Adam Lidz

The kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ) and polarized Sunyaev Zel'dovich (pSZ) effects are temperature and polarization anisotropies induced by the scattering of CMB photons from structure in the post-reionization Universe. In the case of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Anne-Sylvie Deutsch , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Matthew C. Johnson , Moritz Münchmeyer , Alexandra Terrana

The kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect -- the Doppler boosting of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons scattering off free electrons with non-zero line-of-sight velocity -- is an excellent probe of the distribution of baryons in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Aleksandra Kusiak , Boris Bolliet , Simone Ferraro , J. Colin Hill , Alex Krolewski

(Abridged) The hot gas in the IGM produces anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) through the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The SZ effect is a powerful probe of large-scale structure in the universe and must be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 A. Refregier , E. Komatsu , D. N. Spergel , U. -L. Pen

A number of large current experiments aim to detect the signatures of the Cosmic Reionization at redshifts z>6. Their success depends crucially on understanding the character of the reionization process and its observable consequences and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Ue-Li Pen , J. Richard Bond , Paul R. Shapiro

We propose a novel technique to separate the late-time, post-reionization component of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect from the contribution to it from a (poorly understood and probably patchy) reionization history. The kSZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 D. Munshi , I. T. Iliev , K. L. Dixon , P. Coles

The kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies induced by scattering from free electrons in bulk motion, is a primary target of future CMB experiments. Measurements of the kSZ effect have the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Juan I. Cayuso , Matthew C. Johnson , James B. Mertens

A new generation of CMB experiments will soon make sensitive high resolution maps of the microwave sky. At angular scales less than $\sim$10 arcminutes, most CMB anisotropies are generated at z $< 1000$, rather than at the surface of last…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Mario A. Riquelme , David N. 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

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

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

Recent measurements from the CMB and from high-redshift galaxy observations have placed rough constraints on the midpoint and duration of the Epoch of Reionization. Detailed measurements of the ionization history remain elusive, although…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 Joëlle-Marie Bégin , Adrian Liu , Adélie Gorce

The Universe's Epoch of Reionization (EoR) can be studied using a number of observational probes that provide complementary or corroborating information. Each of these probes suffers from its own systematic and statistical uncertainties. It…

If the gas in filaments and halos shares the same velocity field than the luminous matter, it will generate measurable temperature anisotropies due to the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. We compute the distribution function of the KSZ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Atrio-Barandela , J. P. Muecket , R. Genova-Santos

The 21\,cm line and the patchy kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect are promising and complementary probes of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). A challenge for cross-correlating these two signals is that foreground avoidance or removal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Meng Zhou , Paul La Plante , Adam Lidz , Yi Mao , Yin-Zhe Ma

We report measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum from the complete 2008 South Pole Telescope (SPT) data set. We analyze twice as much data as the first SPT power spectrum analysis, using an improved…

Patchy reionization leaves a number of imprints on the small-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations, the largest of which is the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ), the Doppler shift of CMB photons scattering off…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Simone Ferraro , Kendrick M. Smith