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All-sky thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) maps are presented for assessing how well the PLANCK-mission can find and characterise clusters of galaxies, especially in the presence of primary anisotropies of the cosmic microwave…

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 measure thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) Effect in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of $\approx$2.5 million $\rm M_{200}$=$\rm 10^{12-14}\,M_\odot$ WISE$\times$DESI galaxies out to $z$=1.2. We split the sample into quiescent (0.7 million)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-14 Sanskriti Das , Nhut Truong , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Smita Mathur

Combinations of galaxy surveys and cosmic microwave background secondaries, such as the thermal Sunyaev Zeldovich (tSZ) effect, are increasingly being used to jointly constrain cosmology and astrophysical properties of the gas within and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 M. Lokken , J. R. Bond , R. Hložek , N. J. Carlson , Z. Li , A. van Engelen

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 hot gas in clusters of galaxies creates a distinctive spectral distortion in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The spectral signature of the SZ can be used to measure the CMB temperature at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Gemma Luzzi , Emanuele D'Angelo , Hervé Bourdin , Federico De Luca , Pasquale Mazzotta , Filippo Oppizzi , Gianluca Polenta

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich thermal (tSZ) and kinetic (kSZ) effects can be used to constrain the thermodynamic properties of pressure and density, respectively, of galaxies and their surrounding regions. As SZ observations continue to improve, it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-21 Emily Moser , Nicholas Battaglia , Stefania Amodeo

Observations of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the local universe can account for only $\sim\,10\%$ of the total baryon content. Cosmological simulations predict that the `missing baryons' are spread throughout filamentary structures in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Anna de Graaff , Yan-Chuan Cai , Catherine Heymans , John A. Peacock

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

Many state-of-the-art galaxy simulations featuring traditional feedback modes have significant challenges producing enough extended soft X-ray ($\sim 0.5-2$ keV) emission at R $\sim 0.5-1$ R$_{\rm vir}$ observed around galaxies with stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-21 Sam B. Ponnada , Philip F. Hopkins , Yue Samuel Lu , Emily M. Silich , Iryna S. Butsky , Dusan Keres

If the gas in filaments and halos shares the same velocity field than the luminous matter, it will generate measurable temperature anisotropies due to the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. We compute the distribution function of the KSZ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Atrio-Barandela , J. P. Muecket , R. Genova-Santos

We measure the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) skewness power spectrum in $\textit{Planck}$, using frequency maps of the HFI instrument and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) component map. The two-to-one skewness power spectrum measures the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Nicholas Timmons , Asantha Cooray , Chang Feng , Brian Keating

Recent first detections of the cross-correlation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) signal in Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps with gravitational lensing maps inferred from the Planck CMB data and the CFHTLenS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 N. Battaglia , J. C. Hill , N. Murray

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is the inverse-Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off hot, ionized electrons, primarily located in galaxy groups and clusters. Recent years have seen immense…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-22 J. Colin Hill

Perhaps the most controversial idea in modern cosmology is that our observable universe is contained within one bubble among many, all inhabiting the eternally inflating multiverse. One of the few way to test this idea is to look for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-01 Pengjie Zhang , Matthew C. Johnson

Nearby galaxy clusters can potentially induce sub-microkelvin polarization signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at characteristic scales of a few arcminutes. We explore four such polarization signals induced in a rich nearby…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Mark Mirmelstein , Meir Shimon , Yoel Rephaeli

We introduce a new statistic to measure more accurately the cosmic sound speed of clusters of galaxies at different redshifts. This statistic is evaluated by cross-correlating cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations caused by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Atrio--Barandela , A. Kashlinsky , J. P. Mücket