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Future multifrequency microwave background experiments with arcminute resolution and micro-Kelvin temperature sensitivity will be able to detect the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect, providing a way to measure radial peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Suman Bhattacharya , Arthur Kosowsky

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect is a secondary cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy induced by the scattering of CMB photons off intervening electrons. Through cross-correlations with tracers of large-scale structure,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Gabriela Sato-Polito , José Luis Bernal , Kimberly K. Boddy , Marc Kamionkowski

Redshift space distortions of the matter density power spectrum carry information on the growth rate of cosmic structure but require accurate modeling of nonlinear and velocity effects on the density field. We test and advance the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Alberto Vallinotto , Eric V. Linder

Kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ) tomography provides a powerful probe of the radial velocity field of matter in the Universe. By cross-correlating a high resolution CMB experiment like CMB S4 and a galaxy survey like DESI or LSST, one can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Moritz Münchmeyer , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Simone Ferraro , Matthew C. Johnson , Kendrick M. Smith

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

The cosmological power spectrum of the coherent matter flow is measured exploiting an improved prescription for the apparent anisotropic clustering pattern in redshift space. New statistical analysis is presented to provide an optimal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-22 Yong-Seon Song , Takahiro Nishimichi , Atsushi Taruya , Issha Kayo

The interaction between Dark Matter and Dark Energy has been proposed as a mechanism to alleviate the coincidence problem. We analyze the effect of the interaction on the evolution of the gravitational field and propose two new observables…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Xiao-Dong Xu , Bin Wang , Pengjie Zhang , Fernando Atrio-Barandela

General relativity predicts that the rotational momentum flux of matter twists the spacetime via a vector gravitomagnetic (frame-dragging) field, which remains undetected in cosmology. This vector field induces an additional gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Cristian Barrera-Hinojosa , Baojiu Li , Yan-Chuan Cai

We perform kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) velocity reconstruction on data from ACT DR6 and DESI-LS DR9. To estimate the cross-power between kSZ velocity reconstruction and galaxy density, we make use of a novel quadratic maximum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Anderson C. M. Lai , Yurii Kvasiuk , Moritz Münchmeyer

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

Velocity fields can be reconstructed at cosmological scales from their influence on the correlation between the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure. Effects that induce such correlations include the kinetic Sunyaev…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-28 Selim C. Hotinli , Kendrick M. Smith , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Marc Kamionkowski

The contribution of line-of-sight peculiar velocities to the observed redshift of objects breaks the translational symmetry of the underlying theory, modifying the predicted 2-point functions. These `wide angle effects' have mostly been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Emanuele Castorina , Martin White

We consider some aspects of the perturbation to the luminosity distance $d(z)$ that are of relevance for SN1a cosmology and for future peculiar velocity surveys at non-negligible redshifts. 1) Previous work has shown that the correction to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nick Kaiser , Michael J. Hudson

We study the scale and redshift dependence of the power spectra for density perturbations and peculiar velocities, and the evolution of a coarse grained phase space density for (WDM) particles that decoupled during the radiation dominated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Daniel Boyanovsky

The 'optical depth-linear growth rate' ($\tau_{\rm T}-f$) degeneracy is a long-standing problem in the kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ) cosmology. It can be spontaneously broken in redshift space, where the velocity field leaves its own…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-08 Liang Xiao , Yi Zheng

The peculiar motion of galaxies can be a particularly sensitive probe of gravitational collapse. As such, it can be used to measure the dynamics of dark matter and dark energy as well the nature of the gravitational laws at play on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Alvise Raccanelli , Philip Bull , Stefano Camera , David Bacon , Chris Blake , Olivier Dore , Pedro Ferreira , Roy Maartens , Mario Santos , Matteo Viel , Gong-bo Zhao

Several statistics have been proposed for measuring the kSZ effect by combining the small-scale CMB with galaxy surveys. We review five such statistics, and show that they are all mathematically equivalent to the optimal bispectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-01 Kendrick M. Smith , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Moritz Münchmeyer , Simone Ferraro , Utkarsh Giri , Matthew C. Johnson

We present a new method for recovering the underlying velocity field from an observed distribution of galaxies in redshift space. The method is based on a kinematic Zel'dovich relation between the velocity and density fields in redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Adi Nusser , Marc Davis