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Forthcoming measurements of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect in galaxy clusters will dramatically improve our understanding of the main intra-cluster medium (ICM) properties and how they depend on the particular thermal and dynamical state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Óscar Monllor-Berbegal , David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

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

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

Clusters of galaxies, the largest bound objects in the Universe, constitute a cosmological probe of choice, which is sensitive to both dark matter and dark energy. Within this framework, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect has opened a new…

Surveys based on the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect provide a fresh view of the galaxy cluster population, one that is complementary to X-ray surveys. To better understand the relation between these two kinds of survey, we construct an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 A. Chamballu , J. G. Bartlett , J. -B. Melin

Nearby galaxy clusters can potentially induce sub-microkelvin polarization signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at characteristic scales of a few arcminutes. We explore four such polarization signals induced in a rich nearby…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Mark Mirmelstein , Meir Shimon , Yoel Rephaeli

Upcoming millimeter experiments that probe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) will observe tens of thousands of galaxy clusters through the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. tSZ selected clusters are powerful probes of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Dylan Cromer , Nicholas Battaglia , Mathew S. Madhavacheril

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a promising tool to study physical properties of the hot X-ray emitting intracluster medium (ICM) in galaxy clusters. To date, most SZ observations have been interpreted in combination with X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrea Morandi , Daisuke Nagai , Wei Cui

The measurement of angular diameter distance to galaxy clusters, through combined Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect data with X-ray emission observations, is now a well-known probe of cosmology. Using a combination of SZ data and a map of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asantha Cooray

Measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (hereafter SZ) effect distortion of the cosmic microwave background provide us with an independent method to derive the gas temperature of galaxy clusters. In merging galaxy clusters the gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. A. Prokhorov , Y. Dubois , S. Nagataki

We present gas constraints from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect measurements in a sample of eleven X-ray and infrared (IR) selected galaxy clusters at z >=1, using data from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array (SZA). The cylindrically integrated…

(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

New generation ground and space-based CMB experiments have ushered in discoveries of massive galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect, providing a new window for studying cluster astrophysics and cosmology. Many of the newly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jens Chluba , Daisuke Nagai , Sergey Sazonov , Kaylea Nelson

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a powerful tool for studying clusters of galaxies and cosmology. Large mm-wave telescopes are now routinely detecting and mapping the SZ effect in a number of clusters, measure their comptonisation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-09 Paolo de Bernardis , Sergio Colafrancesco , Giuseppe D' Alessandro , Luca Lamagna , Paolo Marchegiani , Silvia Masi , Alessandro Schillaci

Measurements of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (hereafter SZ) distorsion of the cosmic microwave background can give interesting physical informations on clusters of galaxies, provided that the electronic temperature of the gas is known. Previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Pointecouteau , M. Giard , D. Barret

By cross-correlating templates constructed from the 2 Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) Extended Source (XSC) catalogue with WMAP's first year data, we search for the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signature induced by hot gas in the local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , R. Genova-Santos , F. Atrio-Barandela

The galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421 hosts two large X-ray cavities, filled with radio emission, where a decrease of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect has been detected, without establishing if its origin is thermal (from a gas with very high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 P. Marchegiani

The cosmological parameters prefered by the cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary anisotropies predict many more galaxy clusters than those that have been detected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. This tension has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 G. Hurier , R. E. Angulo