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Secondary CMB polarization is induced by the late-time scattering of CMB photons by free electrons on our past light cone. This polarized Sunyaev Zel'dovich (pSZ) effect is sensitive to the electrons' locally observed CMB quadrupole, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Anne-Sylvie Deutsch , Matthew C. Johnson , Moritz Münchmeyer , Alexandra Terrana

Cosmological analyses based on surveys of galaxy clusters observed through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect strongly rely on the mean pressure profile of the cluster population. A tension is currently observed between the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-18 F. Ruppin , F. Mayet , J. F. Macías-Pérez , L. Perotto

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is the inverse-Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off hot, ionized electrons, primarily located in galaxy groups and clusters. Recent years have seen immense…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-22 J. Colin Hill

Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect from a cosmological distribution of clusters carry information on the underlying cosmology as well as the cluster gas physics. In order to study either cosmology or clusters one needs to break the degeneracies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Diego , Subhabrata Majumdar

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect causes a change in the apparent brightness of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation towards a cluster of galaxies or any other reservoir of hot plasma. Measurements of the effect provide distinctly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Birkinshaw

We examine, from first principles, the angular power spectrum between the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) and the reconstructed galaxy momentum - the basis of existing and future "kSZ stacking" analyses. We present a comprehensive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Amy Wayland , David Alonso , Adrien La Posta

In cosmological structure formation models, massive non-linear objects in the process of formation, such as galaxy clusters, are surrounded by large-scale shocks at or around the expected virial radius. Direct observational evidence for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bence Kocsis , Zoltan Haiman , Zsolt Frei

We present a stacked lensing analysis of 96 galaxy clusters selected by the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We select foreground galaxy clusters with a $5\sigma$-level SZ threshold in…

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is one of the primary tools for finding and characterizing galaxy clusters. Several ground-based experiments are either underway or are being planned for mapping wide areas of the sky at $\sim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-24 Nikhel Gupta , Cristiano Porciani , Kaustuv Basu

The hot electrons in the intra-cluster medium produce a spectral distorsion of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) black body emission, the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (tSZ). This characteristic spectral distorsion is now commonly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 G. Hurier , C. Tchernin

We detect the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect with a statistical significance of $4.2 \sigma$ by combining a cluster catalogue derived from the first year data of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) with CMB temperature maps from the…

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…

We present Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements of 15 massive X-ray selected galaxy clusters obtained with the South Pole Telescope. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) cluster signals are measured at 150 GHz, and concurrent 220 GHz data are used to…

The relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect can be used to measure intracluster gas temperatures independently of X-ray spectroscopy. Here, we use the large-volume FLAMINGO simulation suite to determine whether SZ $y$-weighted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Scott T. Kay , Joey Braspenning , Jens Chluba , John C. Helly , Roi Kugel , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

We consider the Stokes parameters' frequency spectral distortions arising due to Compton scattering of the anisotropic cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, the Sunyaev-Zel' dovich effect (SZ), towards clusters of galaxies. We single…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-30 D. I. Novikov , S. V. Pilipenko , M. de Petris , G. Luzzi , A. O. Mihalchenko

Galaxy clusters and surrounding medium, can be studied using X-ray bremsstrahlung emission and Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. Both astrophysical probes, sample the same environment with different parameters dependance. The SZ effect is…

We consistently include the effect of massive neutrinos in the thermal Sunyaev Zeldovich (SZ) power spectrum and cluster counts analyses, highlighting subtle dependencies on the total neutrino mass and data combination. In particular, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-15 Boris Bolliet , Thejs Brinckmann , Jens Chluba , Julien Lesgourgues

Finding a sample of the most massive clusters with redshifts $z>0.6$ can provide an interesting consistency check of the $\Lambda$ cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) model. Here we present results from our search for clusters with $0.6\lesssim…