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The power spectrum of unresolved thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) clusters is extremely sensitive to the amplitude of the matter fluctuations. This paper present an analysis of the tSZ power spectrum using temperature power spectra of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 George Efstathiou , Fiona McCarthy

Forthcoming measurements of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect in galaxy clusters will dramatically improve our understanding of the main intra-cluster medium (ICM) properties and how they depend on the particular thermal and dynamical state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Óscar Monllor-Berbegal , David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

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

Cross-correlation analysis of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect and weak gravitational lensing (WL) provides a powerful probe of cosmology and astrophysics of the intra-cluster medium. We present the measurement of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Ken Osato , Masato Shirasaki , Hironao Miyatake , Daisuke Nagai , Naoki Yoshida , Masamune Oguri , Ryuichi Takahashi

The kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies induced by scattering from free electrons in bulk motion, is a primary target of future CMB experiments. Measurements of the kSZ effect have the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Juan I. Cayuso , Matthew C. Johnson , James B. Mertens

The cosmological parameters prefered by the cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary anisotropies predict many more galaxy clusters than those that have been detected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. This tension has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 G. Hurier , R. E. Angulo

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

The detailed spectral and spatial characteristics of the signature imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation by Compton scattering of the radiation by electrons in the hot gas in clusters of galaxies - the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Yoel Rephaeli

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 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a powerful probe of the evolution of structures in the universe, and is thus highly sensitive to cosmological parameters $\sigma_8$ and $\Omega_m$, though its power is hampered by the current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 G. Hurier , F. Lacasa

Using the results of a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation of the concordance LambdaCDM model, we study the global properties of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects, both considering the thermal (tSZ) and the kinetic (kSZ) component. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Roncarelli , L. Moscardini , S. Borgani , K. Dolag

Using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate the prospects of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect to detect the missing baryons in the local universe. We find that at least 80% of the tSZ luminosity is generated in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Hy Trac , Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde

Over the past decade, the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect has emerged as an observational probe of the distribution of baryons and velocity fields in the late Universe. Of the many ways to detect the kSZ, the 'projected-fields kSZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Raagini Patki , Nicholas Battaglia , Simone Ferraro

The accelerated expansion of the Universe is well established by geometric probes, yet its physical origin remains poorly understood. Most constraints on dark energy arise from background observables -- supernovae, baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Julius Adolff , Selim Hotinli , Neal Dalal

The hot gas embedded in the large-scale structures in the Universe produces secondary fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Because it is proportional to the gas pressure integrated along the line of sight, this effect, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Alexandre Refregier , Romain Teyssier

The hot electrons in the intra-cluster medium produce a spectral distorsion of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) black body emission, the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (tSZ). This characteristic spectral distorsion is now commonly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 G. Hurier , C. Tchernin

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect provides a powerful probe of the thermal pressure of ionised gas in galaxy clusters and the cosmic web; constrained simulations reconstruct the mass and velocity fields of the local Universe. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Richard Stiskalek , Harry Desmond

With the advent of high-resolution, low-noise CMB measurements, the ability to extract cosmological information from thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect will be limited not by statistical uncertainties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Billy K. K. Lee , William R. Coulton , Leander Thiele , Shirley Ho

If Dark Energy introduces an acceleration in the universal expansion then large scale gravitational potential wells should be shrinking, causing a blueshift in the CMB photons that cross such structures (Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Taburet , C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , N. Aghanim , M. Douspis , R. A. Sunyaev

The spin of intergalactic filaments has been predicted from simulations, and supported by tentative evidence from redshift-space filament shapes in a galaxy redshift survey: generally, a filament is redshifted on one side of its axis, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-29 Yi Zheng , Yan-Chuan Cai , Weishan Zhu , Mark Neyrinck , Peng Wang , Shaohong Li