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The interaction of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with the hot gas in clusters of galaxies, the so-called Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, is a very useful tool that allows us to determine the physical conditions in such clusters and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 M. Lopez-Corredoira , C. M. Gutierrez , R. T. Genova-Santos

We report the first detection of a correlation between gravitational lensing by large scale structure and the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. Using the mass map from the Canada France Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-22 Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Gary Hinshaw , Norman Murray

The kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ) and moving lens effects, secondary contributions to the cosmic microwave background (CMB), carry significant cosmological information due to their dependence on the large-scale peculiar velocity field.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Juan Cayuso , Richard Bloch , Selim C. Hotinli , Matthew C. Johnson , Fiona McCarthy

Perhaps the most controversial idea in modern cosmology is that our observable universe is contained within one bubble among many, all inhabiting the eternally inflating multiverse. One of the few way to test this idea is to look for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-01 Pengjie Zhang , Matthew C. Johnson

The Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a global distortion of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) spectrum as a result of its interaction with a hot electron plasma in the intracluster medium of large structures gravitationally viralized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Alexander Bonilla , Jairo E. Castillo

We present a new method for measuring the $E_G$ statistic that combines two CMB secondaries -- the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect and CMB lensing -- for the first time to probe gravity on linear scales. The $E_G$ statistic is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Raagini Patki , Nicholas Battaglia , Rachel Bean

We present a new measurement of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (kSZ) using Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) data. Using the `LowZ North/South' galaxy catalogue from BOSS DR12,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Yi-Chao Li , Yin-Zhe Ma , Mathieu Remazeilles , Kavilan Moodley

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

Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect is one of the recent probes of cosmology and large scale structures. We update constraints on cosmological parameters from galaxy clusters observed by the Planck satellite in a first attempt to combine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Laura Salvati , Marian Douspis , Nabila Aghanim

The complex processes of baryonic feedback associated with galaxy evolution are still poorly understood, and their impact on the clustering of matter on small scales remains difficult to quantify. While many fitting functions and emulators…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Alex Laguë , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Josh Borrow , Kendrick M. Smith , Xinyi Chen , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

We present a measurement of the full shape of the power spectrum of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect down to arcminute scales using cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) over roughly 100 ${\rm…

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Reconstruction is becoming a crucial procedure of galaxy clustering analysis for future spectroscopic redshift surveys to obtain subpercent level measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation scale. Most reconstruction algorithms rely on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Hong-Ming Zhu , Martin White , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect has now become a clear target for ongoing and future studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and cosmology. Aside from the bulk cluster motion, internal motions also lead to a kSZ signal.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Edoardo Altamura , Scott T. Kay , Jens Chluba , Imogen Towler

We present a novel mathematical formalism that allows to easily compute the expected kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich (kSZ) signal in intensity and polarization due to an anisotropic primordial Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). We derive the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Siavash Yasini , Elena Pierpaoli

We present the mean pairwise momentum of clusters, as observed through the kinematic Sunvaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, as a novel probe of massive neutrinos. We find that kSZ measurements with current and upcoming surveys will provide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Eva-Maria Mueller , Francesco de Bernardis , Rachel Bean , Michael D. Niemack

We study here an alternative technique to probe the Dark Ages (DA) and the Epoch of Reonization (EoR) that makes use of the Comptonization of the CMB spectrum modified by physical effects occurring during this epoch related to the emergence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 S. Colafrancesco , P. Marchegiani , M. S. Emritte

We develop an estimator to extract the mean radial velocity profile of cosmic voids via the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect of pairs of galaxies surrounding them. The estimator is tested with simulated pure kSZ map and void catalogue…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-06 Yi-Chao Li , Yin-Zhe Ma , Seshadri Nadathur

We demonstrate that pairwise peculiar velocity correlations for galaxy clusters can be directly reconstructed from the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signature imprinted in the CMB using a machine learning model with a gradient boosting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-17 Yulin Gong , Rachel Bean

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

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