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We present a measurement of the relativistic corrections to the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect spectrum, the rSZ effect, toward the massive galaxy cluster RX J1347.5-1145 by combining sub-mm images from Herschel-SPIRE with mm-wave…

The fraction of ionized gas in the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium induces temperature anisotropies on the Cosmic Microwave Background similar to those of clusters of galaxies. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich anisotropies due to these low density,…

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We detect the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich imprint of peculiar motions of galaxy groups and clusters, using the photometric DESI Legacy Survey together with cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Finn A. Roper , Yan-Chuan Cai , John A. Peacock

We use HI absorption measurements to constrain the amount of cool ($\approx 10^4$ K), photoionized gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of dwarf galaxies with $M_* = 10^{6.5-9.5}~M_\odot$ in the nearby Universe ($z<0.3$). We show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 Yakov Faerman , Yong Zheng , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer

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

We predict the level of small-scale anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) due to the Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) effect for the ensemble of cosmological models that are consistent with current measurements of large-scale CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gilbert P. Holder

We discuss non-Gaussian effects associated with the local large-scale structure contributions to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies through the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The non-Gaussianities associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Asantha Cooray

The angular power spectrum of the SZ effect, C_l, is a powerful probe of cosmology. It is easier to detect than individual clusters in the field, is insensitive to observational selection effects and does not require a calibration between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eiichiro Komatsu , Uros Seljak

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

We review several aspects of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect associated with the large scale baryon distribution and its characteristic signatures in the statistics of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. We discuss (1) the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Asantha Cooray , Daniel Baumann , Kris Sigurdson

The dispersion measures (${\rm DMs}$) from fast radio bursts (FRBs) and the thermal Sunyaev--Zeldovich (tSZ) effect probe the free-electron density and pressure, respectively, in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and the intervening galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Ryuichi Takahashi , Kunihito Ioka , Masato Shirasaki , Ken Osato

The origin of warm ions in the circum-galactic medium (CGM) surrounding massive galaxies remains a mystery. In this paper, we argue that a significant fraction of the observed warm-ion columns may arise in the intergalactic medium (IGM)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Itai Bromberg , Kartick C. Sarkar , Orly Gnat , Yuval Brinboim

We present VSA observations (~34GHz) on scales ~20 arcmin towards a complete, X-ray-flux-limited sample of seven clusters at redshift z<0.1. Four have significant SZ detections in the presence of CMB primordial anisotropy. We use a bayesian…

One of the most important and poorly-understood issues in structure formation is the role of outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN). Using large-scale cosmological simulations, we compute the impact of such outflows on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Evan Scannapieco , Robert J. Thacker , H. M. P. Couchman

We analyze the physical conditions of the cool, photoionized (T $\sim 10^4$ K) circumgalactic medium (CGM) using the COS-Halos suite of gas column density measurements for 44 gaseous halos within 160 kpc of $L \sim L^*$ galaxies at $z \sim…

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (tSZ) is a sensitive probe of cosmology, as it traces the abundance of galaxy clusters and groups in the late-time Universe. Upcoming cosmic microwave background experiments such as the Simons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Alina Sabyr , J. Colin Hill , Zoltan Haiman

We report the detection of extended X-ray emission around two powerful high-z radio galaxies (HzRGs) at z~3.6 (4C03.24 & 4C19.71) and use these to investigate the origin of extended, Inverse Compton (IC) powered X-ray halos at high z. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ian Smail , Katherine M. Blundell , B. D. Lehmer , D. M. Alexander

Thomson scattering of CMBR temperature anisotropies will cause the spectrum of the CMBR to differ from blackbody even when one resolves all anisotropies. A formalism for computing the anisotropic and inhomogeneous spectral distortions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Albert Stebbins

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is a multi-phase, dynamic interface between galaxy and the intergalactic medium, providing crucial diagnostics of galaxy evolution. However, direct evidence for a hot (million-Kelvin) CGM around present-day…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-26 Lin He , Zhiyuan Li