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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…

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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…

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We measure several properties of the reionization process and the corresponding low-frequency 21-cm signal associated with the neutral hydrogen distribution, using a large volume, high resolution simulation of cosmic reionization. The…

The study of neutrinos in astrophysics requires the combination of different observational probes. The temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background induced via the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect may provide…

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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

We investigate the effect of patchy reionization on the cosmic microwave background temperature. An anisotropic optical depth tau (theta) alters the TT power spectrum on small scales l > 2000. We make use of the correlation between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Aravind Natarajan , Nick Battaglia , Hy Trac , Ue Li Pen , Abraham Loeb

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 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

We show that the epoch(s) of reionization when the ionization fraction of the universe is about half can be determined by correlating Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature maps with 21-cm line maps at degree scales ($l\sim 100$).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marcelo A. Alvarez , Eiichiro Komatsu , Olivier Doré , Paul R. Shapiro

Secondary CMB polarization is induced by the late-time scattering of CMB photons by free electrons on our past light cone. This polarized Sunyaev Zel'dovich (pSZ) effect is sensitive to the electrons' locally observed CMB quadrupole, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Anne-Sylvie Deutsch , Matthew C. Johnson , Moritz Münchmeyer , Alexandra Terrana

21cm-galaxy cross-correlation will play a key role in confirming the cosmological 21cm signal. We investigate which survey configurations detect the 21cm-LAE cross-correlation signal, and assess its ability to distinguish reionisation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Anne Hutter , Caroline Heneka

The epoch of reionization is one of the major phase transitions in the history of the universe, and is a focus of ongoing and upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments with improved sensitivity to small-scale fluctuations.…

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Due to cosmic variance we cannot learn any more about large-scale inhomogeneities from the primary cosmic microwave background (CMB) alone. More information on large scales is essential for resolving large angular scale anomalies in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Alexandra Terrana , Mary-Jean Harris , Matthew C. Johnson

We detect the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect with a statistical significance of $4.2 \sigma$ by combining a cluster catalogue derived from the first year data of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) with CMB temperature maps from the…

Of the many probes of reionization, the 21 cm line and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are among the most effective. We examine how the cross-correlation of the 21 cm brightness and the CMB Doppler fluctuations on large angular scales…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-20 Peter Adshead , Steven Furlanetto

The kSZ effect has recently emerged as a powerful probe for precision cosmology through its ability to reconstruct the large-scale velocity field. In particular, the kSZ-reconstructed velocity-galaxy cross-correlation is sensitive to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Carmen Embil Villagra , Fiona McCarthy , Antón Baleato Lizancos , Blake D. Sherwin , Anthony Challinor

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

If the peculiar motion of galaxy groups and clusters indeed resembles that of the surrounding baryons, then the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) pattern of those massive halos should be closely correlated to the kSZ pattern of all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Rashid A. Sunyaev

The Minkowski Functionals (MFs), a set of topological summary statistics, have emerged as a powerful tool for extracting non-Gaussian information. We investigate the prospect of constraining the reionization parameters using the MFs of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Kangning Diao , Zhaoting Chen , Xuelei Chen , Yi Mao

Secondary anisotropies of the CMB have the potential to reveal intricate details about the history of our universe between the present and recombination epochs. However, because the CMB we observe is the projected sum of a multitude of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Olivier Doré , Joseph F. Hennawi , David N. Spergel