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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

Future data from galaxy redshift surveys, combined with high-resolutions maps of the cosmic microwave background, will enable measurements of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal with unprecedented statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Samuel Flender , Daisuke Nagai , Michael McDonald

In the coming years, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) measurements can dramatically improve our understanding of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) and the role of feedback processes on galaxy formation, allowing us to calibrate important astrophysical…

The improving sensitivity of measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect opens a new window into the thermodynamic properties of the baryons in halos. We propose a methodology to constrain these thermodynamic properties by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Nicholas Battaglia , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan , David Spergel

The kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a powerful probe of gas physics and large-scale structure (LSS) in our universe. We consider the "projected-field" kSZ estimator, which involves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Michael Jacob Rodriguez , Aleksandra Kusiak , Shivam Pandey , J. Colin Hill

A complete picture of the gas thermodynamics around galaxies is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Indeed, the thermal, kinematic, and relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects (tSZ, kSZ, rSZ) measure the gas density,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Sadaf Kadir , Bernardita Ried Guachalla , Sihan Yuan , Emmanuel Schaan , Risa H. Wechsler

We propose the use of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect to probe the circumgalactic medium (CGM), with the aid of a spectroscopic survey covering the same area of a SZ survey. One can design an optimal estimator of the kSZ effect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jiawei Shao , Taotao Fang

Future high-resolution measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) will produce catalogs of tens of thousands of galaxy clusters through the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect. We forecast how well different configurations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-01 Mathew Madhavacheril , Nicholas Battaglia , Hironao Miyatake

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from clusters of galaxies should yield a significant signal in cosmic microwave background(CMB) experiments at small angular scales ($\ell \ga 1000$). Experiments with sufficient frequency coverage should…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gilbert P. Holder , John E. Carlstrom

The pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal from galaxy clusters is a probe of their line-of-sight momenta, and thus a potentially valuable source of cosmological information. In addition to the momenta, the amplitude of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-04 Samuel Flender , Lindsey Bleem , Hal Finkel , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Gilbert Holder

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

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

We report the first robust evidence for the rotational kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (rkSZ) effect, produced by the Thomson scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off rotating intracluster gas. By combining CMB intensity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Samuel Goldstein , J. Colin Hill

Upcoming measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, which results from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons scattering off moving electrons, offer a powerful probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). The kSZ signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Farshid Farhadi Khouzani , Abinash Kumar Shaw , Paul La Plante , Bryar Mustafa Shareef , Laxmi Gewali

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect induces a Compton-$y$ distortion in cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps that is sensitive to a line of sight integral of the ionized gas pressure. By correlating the positions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 S. Pandey , E. J. Baxter , J. C. Hill

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

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

In the context of a cosmological study of the bulk flows in the Universe, we present a detailed study of the statistical properties of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. We first compute analytically the correlation function and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , L. Verde , Raul Jimenez , D. N. Spergel

We consider the prospects for measuring the pairwise kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal from galaxy clusters discovered in large photometric surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We project that the DES cluster sample will, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ryan Keisler , Fabian Schmidt

Recent detections of the cross-correlation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect and weak gravitational lensing (WL) enable unique studies of cluster astrophysics and cosmology. In this work, we present constraints on the amplitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Ken Osato , Samuel Flender , Daisuke Nagai , Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida
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