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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

A complete census of baryons in the late universe is a long-standing challenge due to the intermediate temperate and rarefied character of the majority of cosmic gas. To gain insight into this problem, we extract measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jonas Chaves-Montero , Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Raul E. Angulo , J. D. Emberson

We constrain the rotational kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (rkSZ) effect in Planck data using a sample of rotating galaxy clusters identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We extract cluster-centered cutouts from Planck cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Eric J. Baxter , Blake D. Sherwin , Srinivasan Raghunathan

We present a forecast of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) measurement that will be achievable with the future CMB-S4 experiment. CMB-S4 is the next stage for ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments, with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-30 E. Schiappucci , S. Raghunathan , C. To , F. Bianchini , C. L. Reichardt , N. Battaglia , B. Hadzhiyska , S. Kim , J. B. Melin , C. Sifón , E. M. Vavagiakis

Secondary anisotropies of the CMB have the potential to reveal intricate details about the history of our universe between the present and recombination epochs. However, because the CMB we observe is the projected sum of a multitude of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Olivier Doré , Joseph F. Hennawi , David N. Spergel

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

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

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys will soon make the first detection of the polarized Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, the linear polarization generated by the scattering of CMB photons on the free electrons present in collapsed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-04 Joel Meyers , P. Daniel Meerburg , Alexander van Engelen , Nicholas Battaglia

The gas density profile around galaxies, shaped by feedback and affecting the galaxy lensing signal, is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (kSZ). We precisely measure this effect…

We present an analytic model, based on previous works which tackled the reionization history of the universe, which allows us to describe the generation of the secondary CMB anisotropies due to the kinetic SZ effect. We take into account…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Valageas , A. Balbi , J. Silk

Future arcminute resolution polarization data from ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations can be used to estimate the contribution to the temperature power spectrum from the primary anisotropies and to uncover the…

We calculate the expected imprint of the ionized gas in the Milky-Way halo on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) through the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. Unlike other Galactic foregrounds, the halo kSZ signature covers the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Yuval Birnboim , Abraham Loeb

The kSZ effect has recently emerged as a powerful probe for precision cosmology through its ability to reconstruct the large-scale velocity field. In particular, the kSZ-reconstructed velocity-galaxy cross-correlation is sensitive to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Carmen Embil Villagra , Fiona McCarthy , Antón Baleato Lizancos , Blake D. Sherwin , Anthony Challinor

We investigate the effect of patchy reionization on the cosmic microwave background temperature. An anisotropic optical depth tau (theta) alters the TT power spectrum on small scales l > 2000. We make use of the correlation between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Aravind Natarajan , Nick Battaglia , Hy Trac , Ue Li Pen , Abraham Loeb

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

We discuss the possibility of studying diffuse baryon distributions with kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect by correlating cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations with density fluctuations from 21\,cm intensity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Dongzi Li , Hong-Ming Zhu , Ue-Li Pen

We consider the prospects for measuring the pairwise kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal from galaxy clusters discovered in large photometric surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We project that the DES cluster sample will, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ryan Keisler , Fabian Schmidt

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is the distortion generated in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectrum by the inverse-Compton scattering of CMB photons off free, energetic electrons, primarily located in the intracluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-29 Alina Sabyr , J. Colin Hill , Boris Bolliet

Baryonic feedback remains one of the largest uncertainties in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, with different prescriptions producing divergent predictions for the fraction of gas expelled from halos, the radial extent of the gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Leah Bigwood , Masaya Yamamoto , Jared Siegel , Alexandra Amon , Ian G. McCarthy , Romeel Dave , Jaime Salcido , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye , Tianyi Yang