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The 21\,cm line and the patchy kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect are promising and complementary probes of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). A challenge for cross-correlating these two signals is that foreground avoidance or removal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Meng Zhou , Paul La Plante , Adam Lidz , Yi Mao , Yin-Zhe Ma

The measurement of the brightness temperature fluctuations of neutral hydrogen 21 cm lines from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) is expected to be a powerful tool for revealing the reionisation process. We study the 21 cm cross-correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-07 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Nabila Aghanim , Mathieu Langer , Marian Douspis , Saleem Zaroubi , Vibor Jelic

The Universe's Epoch of Reionization (EoR) can be studied using a number of observational probes that provide complementary or corroborating information. Each of these probes suffers from its own systematic and statistical uncertainties. It…

We present the first calculation of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect due to the inhomogeneous reionization of the universe based on detailed large-scale radiative transfer simulations of reionization. The resulting sky power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ilian T. Iliev , Ue-Li Pen , J. Richard Bond , Garrelt Mellema , Paul R. Shapiro

We present the first calculation of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect due to the inhomogeneus reionization of the universe based on detailed large-scale radiative transfer simulations of reionization. The resulting sky power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 Ilian T. Iliev , Ue-Li Pen , J. Richard Bond , Garrelt Mellema , Paul R. Shapiro

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

The high-redshift 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is a promising observational probe of the early universe. Current- and next-generation radio interferometers such as the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-13 Paul La Plante , Adam Lidz , James Aguirre , Saul Kohn

During the epoch of reionization, local variations in the ionized fraction (patchiness) imprint arcminute-scale temperature anisotropies in the CMB through the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. We employ an improved version of an…

Neutral hydrogen (HI) 21-cm intensity mapping is an effective method to track the distribution of baryonic matter, and extract astrophysical and cosmological information. The 21-cm intensity field has a nonvanishing cross-correlation with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Zi-Yan Yuwen , Yu-Er Jiang , Yin-Zhe Ma , Paul La Plante , Adam Lidz , Yan Gong

[ABRIDGED] Inhomogeneous reionization acts as a source of arcminute-scale anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the most important of which is the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. Observational efforts with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Andrei Mesinger , Matthew McQuinn , David Spergel

The patchy kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal is an integral probe of the timing and morphology of the epoch of reionization (EoR). Recent observations have claimed a low signal-to-noise (S/N) measurement, with a dramatic increase in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 Ivan Nikolić , Andrei Mesinger , Yuxiang Qin , Adélie Gorce

During the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), the ultraviolet radiation from the first stars and galaxies ionised the neutral hydrogen of the intergalactic medium, which can emit radiation through its 21 cm hyperfine transition. This 21 cm signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Ivelin Georgiev , Adélie Gorce , Garrelt Mellema

We discuss the possibility of studying diffuse baryon distributions with kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect by correlating cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations with density fluctuations from 21\,cm intensity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Dongzi Li , Hong-Ming Zhu , Ue-Li Pen

We show that, in the context of patchy reionisation, an accurate description of the angular power spectrum of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect is not possible with simple scaling relations between the amplitude of the spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Adélie Gorce , Stéphane Ilić , Marian Douspis , Dominique Aubert , Mathieu Langer

We explore a new approach for extracting reionization-era contributions to the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. Our method utilizes the cross-power spectrum between filtered and squared maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Paul La Plante , Jackson Sipple , Adam Lidz

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect results from Thomson scattering by coherent flows in the reionized intergalactic medium. We present new results based on ray-tracing a 10 Gpc scale simulation at 2-3 Mpc scale resolution to create…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-24 Marcelo A. Alvarez

Recent measurements from the CMB and from high-redshift galaxy observations have placed rough constraints on the midpoint and duration of the Epoch of Reionization. Detailed measurements of the ionization history remain elusive, although…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 Joëlle-Marie Bégin , Adrian Liu , Adélie Gorce

We present new predictions for temperature (on small angular scales) and polarization (on large angular scales) CMB anisotropies induced during the epoch of reionization (EoR). Using a novel method calibrated from Radiation-Hydrodynamic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Nick Battaglia , Aravind Natarajan , Hy Trac , Renyue Cen , Abraham Loeb

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments will measure temperature fluctuations on small angular scales with unprecedented precision, enabling improved measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. This secondary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Neha Anil Kumar , Mesut Çalışkan , Selim C. Hotinli , Marc Kamionkowski , Simone Ferraro , Kendrick Smith

The patchiness in the reionization process alters the statistics of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), with the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect in the CMB temperature power spectrum being a notable consequence. In this work, we aim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-13 Divesh Jain , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Srinivasan Raghunathan , Suvodip Mukherjee
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