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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

The kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) effect is a potentially powerful probe to the missing baryons. However, the kSZ signal is overwhelmed by various contaminations and the cosmological application is hampered by loss of redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 Jiawei Shao , Pengjie Zhang , Weipeng Lin , Yipeng Jing , Jun Pan

We develop and test a new statistical method to measure the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. A sample of independently detected clusters is combined with the cosmic flow field predicted from a galaxy redshift survey in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-11 Ming Li , Raul E. Angulo , Simon D. M. White , Jens Jasche

The rotational kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (rkSZ) signal, imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the gaseous halos (spinning "atmospheres") of foreground galaxies, would be a novel probe of galaxy formation. Although the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , Zoltán Haiman

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

We report on the measurement of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) Effect in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of 641,923 galaxies with $\rm M_\star$=$\rm 10^{9.8-11.3}M_\odot$ at $z<$0.5, pushing the exploration of tSZ Effect to lower-mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Sanskriti Das , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Smita Mathur

With the advent of current and future high-resolution CMB experiments, the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect has become a unique observational probe of the distribution of baryons and velocities in the Universe. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-14 Raagini Patki , Nicholas Battaglia , J. Colin Hill

We constrain the rotational kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (rkSZ) effect in Planck data using a sample of rotating galaxy clusters identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We extract cluster-centered cutouts from Planck cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Eric J. Baxter , Blake D. Sherwin , Srinivasan Raghunathan

The peculiar motions of massive halos probe the distribution of matter in the universe, the gravitational potential, and the history of cosmic structure growth. The kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect offers a robust observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Patricio A. Gallardo , Yulin Gong , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Yun-Hsin Hsu

We measure thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) Effect in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of $\approx$2.5 million $\rm M_{200}$=$\rm 10^{12-14}\,M_\odot$ WISE$\times$DESI galaxies out to $z$=1.2. We split the sample into quiescent (0.7 million)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-14 Sanskriti Das , Nhut Truong , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Smita Mathur

The kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal is a powerful probe of the cosmic baryon distribution. The kSZ signal is proportional to the integrated free electron momentum rather than the electron pressure (which sources the thermal SZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-02 Simone Ferraro , J. Colin Hill , Nick Battaglia , Jia Liu , David N. Spergel

As the signal-to-noise of Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) cross-correlation measurements of galaxies improves our ability to infer properties about the circumgalactic medium (CGM), we will transition from being limited by statistical uncertainties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-20 Emily Moser , Stefania Amodeo , Nicholas Battaglia , Marcelo A. Alvarez , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan

We present a forecast of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) measurement that will be achievable with the future CMB-S4 experiment. CMB-S4 is the next stage for ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments, with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-30 E. Schiappucci , S. Raghunathan , C. To , F. Bianchini , C. L. Reichardt , N. Battaglia , B. Hadzhiyska , S. Kim , J. B. Melin , C. Sifón , E. M. Vavagiakis

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) and patchy screening effect are two complementary cosmic microwave background (CMB) probes of the reionization era. The kSZ effect is a relatively strong signal, but is difficult to disentangle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Darby Kramer , Alexander van Engelen , Christopher Cain , Niall MacCrann , Hy Trac , Skylar Grayson , Evan Scannapieco , Blake Sherwin

We study the cross-correlation of distribution of galaxies, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) and X-ray power spectra of galaxies from current and upcoming surveys and show these to be excellent probes of the nature, i.e. extent, evolution and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Priyanka Singh , Subhabrata Majumdar , Biman B. Nath , Alexandre Refregier , Joseph Silk

The cosmic velocity field is an unbiased probe of the total matter distribution but is challenging to measure directly at intermediate and high redshifts. The large-scale velocity field imprints a signal in the cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Alex Laguë , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Kendrick M. Smith , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan

We perform the first joint analysis of galaxy clustering (GC) and the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect to simultaneously constrain cosmological and astrophysical parameters in this work, utilizing a combination of the Atacama…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Shaohong Li , Yi Zheng

We measure the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, imprinted by maxBCG clusters, on the Planck SMICA map of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Our measurement, for the first time, directly accounts for uncertainties in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-07 Nhat-Minh Nguyen , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Fabian Schmidt

The kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect -- the Doppler boosting of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons scattering off free electrons with non-zero line-of-sight velocity -- is an excellent probe of the distribution of baryons in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Aleksandra Kusiak , Boris Bolliet , Simone Ferraro , J. Colin Hill , Alex Krolewski

Stacking cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps around known galaxy clusters and groups provides a powerful probe of the distribution of hot gas in these systems via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. A stacking analysis allows one to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Vinu Vikram , Adam Lidz , Bhuvnesh Jain
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