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We report the first investigation of cool-core properties of galaxy clusters selected via their Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. We use 13 galaxy clusters uniformly selected from 178 deg^2 observed with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and…

Clusters of galaxies provide valuable information on the evolution of the Universe and large scale structures. Recent cluster observations via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect have proven to be a powerful tool to detect and study…

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys will soon make the first detection of the polarized Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, the linear polarization generated by the scattering of CMB photons on the free electrons present in collapsed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-04 Joel Meyers , P. Daniel Meerburg , Alexander van Engelen , Nicholas Battaglia

A matched filter technique is applied to the Planck all-sky Compton y-parameter map to measure the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect produced by galaxy groups of different halo masses selected from large redshift surveys in the low-z…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Seunghwan Lim , Houjun Mo , Ran Li , Yue Liu , Yin-Zhe Ma , Huiyuan Wang , Xiaohu Yang

In recent years, the study of secondary anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background has become a fundamental instrument to test our understanding of the Universe. Using a set of lightcones produced with the ``Dark Energy and Massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Davide Luchina , Mauro Roncarelli , Matteo Calabrese , Giulio Fabbian , Carmelita Carbone

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 intensity of the cosmic microwave background radiation in the fields of clusters of galaxies is modified by inverse Compton scattering in the hot intracluster gas - the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The effect is expected to be most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrew W. Blain

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect of galaxy clusters is characterized by three parameters: Compton parameter, electron temperature and cluster peculiar velocity. In the present study we consider the problem of extracting these parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nabila Aghanim , Steen H. Hansen , Sergio Pastor , Dmitry V. Semikoz

We present the analytical formulas, derived based on the halo model, to compute the cross-correlation between the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and the distribution of galaxy clusters. By binning the clusters according to their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Wenjuan Fang , Kenji Kadota , Masahiro Takada

We present high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of the degree and direction of polarisation imprinted on the CMB by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the the line of sight to massive galaxy clusters. We focus on two contributions which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Lavaux , J. M. Diego , H. Mathis , J. Silk

We present an accurate analytic fitting formula for the numerical results for the relativistic corrections to the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect for clusters of galaxies. The numerical results for the relativistic corrections have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Satoshi Nozawa , Naoki Itoh , Youhei Kawana , Yasuharu Kohyama

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a spectral distortion in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), caused due to up-scattering of CMB photons by high energy electron distributions. The largest SZ distortion in the CMB is caused by the hot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-14 Dhruba Dutta Chowdhury

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

We show that the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect caused by hot electrons in the Local Supercluster (LSC) can explain the abnormal quadrupole and octopole of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) that were measured by WMAP and COBE. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Raul Abramo , L. Sodre

Galaxy clusters imprint a distinctive signature on the cosmic microwave background through the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, which enables to study the intracluster plasma distribution and makes them powerful cosmological probes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 S. Cocchi , F. Loi , M. Murgia , P. Marchegiani , V. Vacca , F. Govoni , F. Gandossi , G. Rodighiero

A statistical analysis of stacked Compton$-y$ maps of quasar hosts with a median redshift of $1.5$ using Millennium Simulation is performed to address two issues, one on the feedback energy from quasars and the other on testing dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 Renyue Cen , Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh

This Letter explores influences of intracluster magnetic fields ($\gsim 1\mu$G) submerged in the hot electron gas on classic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) and thermal bremsstrahlung in X-ray emissions. As the Larmor frequency is much…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jian Hu , Yu-Qing Lou

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (hereafter SZ) effect is a promising tool to derive the gas temperature of galaxy clusters. The approximation of a spherically symmetric gas distribution is usually used to determine the temperature structure of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. A. Prokhorov , Y. Dubois , S. Nagataki , T. Akahori , K. Yoshikawa

We study the spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background radiation induced by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in clusters of galaxies when the target electrons have a modified Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution with a high-energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Blasi , A. V. Olinto , A. Stebbins