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We use high-resolution hydrodynamic re-simulations to investigate the properties of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from galaxy clusters. We compare results obtained using different physical models for the intracluster medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. Bonaldi , G. Tormen , K. Dolag , L. Moscardini

We explore the potential of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect as the cornerstone of a future observational probe for halo spin bias, the secondary dependence of halo clustering on halo spin at fixed halo mass. Using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , M. Celeste Artale , L. Raul Abramo , Beatriz Tucci

We present a multifrequency and multi-instrument methodology to study the physical properties of galaxy clusters and cosmic filaments using cosmic microwave background observations. Our approach enables simultaneous measurement of both the…

The determination of the morphology of galaxy clusters has important repercussion on their cosmological and astrophysical studies. In this paper we address the morphological characterisation of synthetic maps of the Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Giammarco Cialone , Marco De Petris , Federico Sembolini , Gustavo Yepes , Anna Silvia Baldi , Elena Rasia

We present a new measurement of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (kSZ) using Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) data. Using the `LowZ North/South' galaxy catalogue from BOSS DR12,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Yi-Chao Li , Yin-Zhe Ma , Mathieu Remazeilles , Kavilan Moodley

Upcoming observatories will be able to detect the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovitch (kSZ) effect with unprecendented signal-to-noise, and cross-correlations with foreground signals such as galaxy counts are a promising way to extract additional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon DeDeo , David N. Spergel , Hy Trac

We calculate the one-point probability density distribution functions (PDF) and the power spectra of the thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ and kSZ) effects and the mean Compton Y parameter using the Magneticum Pathfinder…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Klaus Dolag , Eiichiro Komatsu , Rashid Sunyaev

General relativity predicts that the rotational momentum flux of matter twists the spacetime via a vector gravitomagnetic (frame-dragging) field, which remains undetected in cosmology. This vector field induces an additional gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Cristian Barrera-Hinojosa , Baojiu Li , Yan-Chuan Cai

Galaxy clusters are potentially powerful probes of the large-scale velocity field in the Universe because their peculiar velocity can be estimated directly via the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (kSZ). Using high-resolution cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Daisuke Nagai , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Arthur Kosowsky

The key to understand the nature of dark energy relies in our ability to probe the distant Universe. In this framework, the recent detection of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect signature in the cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 M. Roncarelli , M. Baldi , F. Villaescusa-Navarro

Recent results of ground-based telescopes, giving high-quality measurements of the CMB temperature power spectrum on small scales motivate the need for an accurate model of foregrounds, which dominate the primary signal at these multipoles.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Adélie Gorce , Marian Douspis , Laura Salvati

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

Observations with the SZ effect constitute a powerful new tool for investigating clusters and constraining cosmological parameters. Of particular interest is to investigate how the SZ signal correlates with other cluster properties, such as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio C. da Silva

We measure the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal through a joint analysis of the pairwise kSZ effect and galaxy clustering using CMASS galaxies and ACT DR6 maps. This approach breaks degeneracies between the optical depth and nuisance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Shaohong Li , Yi Zheng

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 cosmological constraints from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich experiments are degenerate with the optical depth measurement, which is commonly known as the optical-depth degeneracy. In this work, we introduce a new statistic based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Joseph Kuruvilla

We report the detection of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect in galaxy clusters with a 4.9 sigma significance using the latest 217 GHz Planck map from data release 4. For the detection, we stacked the Planck map at the positions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Hideki Tanimura , Nabila Aghanim , Victor Bonjean , Saleem Zaroubi

We show that by directly correlating the cluster kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich (KSZ) flux, the cluster peculiar velocity power spectrum can be measured to $\sim 10%$ accuracy by future large sky coverage KSZ surveys. This method is almost free…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pengjie Zhang , Albert Stebbins , Roman Juszkiewicz , Hume Feldman