English
Related papers

Related papers: JoXSZ: Joint X-SZ fitting code for galaxy clusters

200 papers

The temperature and density of the hot diffuse medium pervading galaxy groups and clusters combine into one significant quantity, the entropy. Here we express the entropy levels and profiles in model-independent forms by joining two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Cavaliere , A. Lapi , Y. Rephaeli

The complete characterization of the pressure profile of high-redshift galaxy clusters, from their core to their outskirts, is a major issue for the study of the formation of large-scale structures. It is essential to constrain a potential…

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a window into the astrophysical processes of galaxy clusters, and relativistic corrections (the "rSZ") promise to provide a global census of the gas feedback within clusters. Upcoming wide-field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 L. Kuhn , Z. Li , William R. Coulton

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…

We discuss a new method of finding the cluster temperatures which is independent of distance and therefore very useful for distant clusters. The hot gas of electrons in clusters of galaxies scatters and distorts the cosmic microwave…

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

[Abridged] We present an analysis of the scaling relations between X-ray properties and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) parameters for a sample of 24 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters observed with Chandra and with measured SZ effect. These objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. Morandi , S. Ettori , L. Moscardini

Future high resolution, high sensitivity Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) observations of individual clusters will provide an exciting opportunity to answer specific questions about the dynamical state of the intra-cluster medium (ICM). In this paper…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jens Chluba , Eric R. Switzer , Daisuke Nagai , Kaylea Nelson

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is produced by the interaction of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons with the hot (a few keV) and diffuse gas of electrons inside galaxy clusters integrated along the line of sight. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 G. Hurier

The advent of high-resolution imaging of galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) provides a unique probe of the astrophysics of the intracluster medium (ICM) out to high redshifts. To investigate the effects of cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 John J. Ruan , Thomas R. Quinn , Arif Babul

The hot gas in clusters of galaxies creates a distinctive spectral distortion in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect. To first order, the shape of the spectral distortion is fixed, but relativistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Adam D. Hincks , Ricardo Génova-Santos , Gemma Luzzi , Elia Stefano Battistelli

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect provides a powerful probe of the thermal pressure of ionised gas in galaxy clusters and the cosmic web; constrained simulations reconstruct the mass and velocity fields of the local Universe. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Richard Stiskalek , Harry Desmond

Thermodynamic profiles from X-ray and millimetre observations of galaxy clusters are often compared under the simplifying assumptions of smooth, spherically symmetric intracluster medium. These approximations lead to expected discrepancies…

Forthcoming measurements of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect in galaxy clusters will dramatically improve our understanding of the main intra-cluster medium (ICM) properties and how they depend on the particular thermal and dynamical state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Óscar Monllor-Berbegal , David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect was first predicted nearly five decades ago, but has only recently become a mature tool for performing high resolution studies of the warm and hot ionized gas in and between galaxies, groups, and clusters.…

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect has proven to be an extremely powerful tool to study the physical and evolutionary properties of rich clusters of galaxies. Upcoming SZ experiments, with their much improved sensitivity and angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. De Zotti , C. Burigana , A. Cavaliere , L. Danese , G. L. Granato , A. Lapi , P. Platania , L. Silva

We present Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements of 15 massive X-ray selected galaxy clusters obtained with the South Pole Telescope. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) cluster signals are measured at 150 GHz, and concurrent 220 GHz data are used to…

We measure the cross-correlation between cosmic shear from the third-year release of the Dark Energy Survey, thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) maps from Planck, and X-ray maps from ROSAT. We investigate the possibility of developing a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Adrien La Posta , David Alonso , Nora Elisa Chisari , Tassia Ferreira , Carlos García-García

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 imaging of galaxy clusters through the Sunyaev--Zel'dovich effect is a valuable tool to probe the thermal pressure of the intra-cluster gas, especially in the outermost regions where X-ray observations suffer from photon statistics. For…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Anna Silvia Baldi , Hervé Bourdin , Pasquale Mazzotta , Dominique Eckert , Stefano Ettori , Massimo Gaspari , Mauro Roncarelli