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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 Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a global distortion of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) spectrum as a result of its interaction with a hot electron plasma in the intracluster medium of large structures gravitationally viralized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Alexander Bonilla , Jairo E. Castillo

Measurements of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (hereafter SZ) distorsion of the cosmic microwave background can give interesting physical informations on clusters of galaxies, provided that the electronic temperature of the gas is known. Previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Pointecouteau , M. Giard , D. Barret

We report the joint analysis of single-dish and interferometric observations of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect from the galaxy cluster RX J1347.5-1145. We have developed a parametric fitting procedure that uses native imaging and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-21 Luca Di Mascolo , Eugene Churazov , Tony Mroczkowski

In recent years, significant progress has been made in building new galaxy clusters samples, at low and high redshifts, from wide-area surveys, particularly exploiting the Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. A large effort is underway to…

We develop a machine learning algorithm that generates high-resolution thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) maps of novel galaxy clusters given only halo mass and mass accretion rate. The algorithm uses a conditional variational autoencoder…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Tibor Rothschild , Daisuke Nagai , Han Aung , Sheridan B. Green , Michelle Ntampaka , John ZuHone

Thanks to advances in detector technology and observing techniques, true Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) surveys will soon become a reality. This opens up a new window into the Universe, in many ways analogous to the X-ray band and inherently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James G. Bartlett

We investigate empirical scaling relations between the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE) and cluster mass in simulated clusters of galaxies. The simulated clusters have been compiled from four different samples that differ only in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick M. Motl , Eric J. Hallman , Jack O. Burns , Michael L. Norman

We present a self consistent method to perfom a joint analysis of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich and weak gravitational lensing observation of galaxy clusters. The spatial distribution of the cluster main constituents is described by a perturbative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 O. Doré , F. R. Bouchet , Y. Mellier , R. Teyssier

The relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect can be used to measure intracluster gas temperatures independently of X-ray spectroscopy. Here, we use the large-volume FLAMINGO simulation suite to determine whether SZ $y$-weighted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Scott T. Kay , Joey Braspenning , Jens Chluba , John C. Helly , Roi Kugel , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

We present two non-parametric deprojection methods aimed at recovering the three-dimensional density and temperature profiles of galaxy clusters from spatially resolved thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) and X-ray surface brightness maps, thus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Ameglio , S. Borgani , E. Pierpaoli , K. Dolag

Galaxy clusters, the most massive collapsed structures, have been routinely used to determine cosmological parameters. When using clusters for cosmology, the crucial assumption is that they are relaxed. However, subarcminute resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sandor M. Molnar , Nathan C. Hearn , Joachim G. Stadel

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect is a powerful new tool for finding and studying clusters at high redshift, particularly in combination with their X-ray properties. In this paper we quantify the expected scaling relations between these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio C. da Silva , Scott T. Kay , Andrew R. Liddle , Peter A. Thomas

All-sky data from the Planck survey and the Meta-Catalogue of X-ray detected Clusters of galaxies (MCXC) are combined to investigate the relationship between the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signal and X-ray luminosity. The sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-14 Planck Collaboration , N. Aghanim , M. Arnaud , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. Balbi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , M. Bartelmann , J. G. Bartlett , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoît , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , R. Bhatia , J. J. Bock , A. Bonaldi , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , M. L. Brown , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , P. Cabella , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , L. Cayón , A. Challinor , A. Chamballu , R. -R. Chary , L. -Y Chiang , C. Chiang , G. Chon , P. R. Christensen , E. Churazov , D. L. Clements , S. Colafrancesco , S. Colombi , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , F. Cuttaia , A. Da Silva , H. Dahle , L. Danese , P. de Bernardis , G. de Gasperis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , F. -X. Désert , J. M. Diego , K. Dolag , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , U. Dörl , M. Douspis , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , T. A. Enßlin , F. Finelli , I. Flores , O. Forni , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , S. Fromenteau , S. Galeotta , K. Ganga , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Giard , G. Giardino , Y. Giraud-Héraud , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , D. Harrison , S. Henrot-Versillé , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , W. Hovest , R. J. Hoyland , K. M. Huffenberger , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , T. S. Kisner , R. Kneissl , L. Knox , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , R. J. Laureijs , C. R. Lawrence , S. Leach , R. Leonardi , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , C. J. MacTavish , B. Maffei , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , R. Mann , M. Maris , F. Marleau , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , F. Matthai , P. Mazzotta , A. Melchiorri , J. -B. Melin , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , D. Munshi , A. Murphy , P. Naselsky , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , S. Osborne , F. Pajot , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , F. Perrotta , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , R. Piffaretti , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , N. Ponthieu , T. Poutanen , G. W. Pratt , G. Prézeau , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , R. Rebolo , M. Reinecke , C. Renault , S. Ricciardi , T. Riller , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , M. Sandri , D. Santos , B. M. Schaefer , D. Scott , M. D. Seiffert , G. F. Smoot , J. -L. Starck , F. Stivoli , V. Stolyarov , R. Sunyaev , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , J. Tuovinen , L. Valenziano , L. Vibert , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , B. D. Wandelt , S. D. M. White , M. White , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

The measurement of angular diameter distance to galaxy clusters, through combined Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect data with X-ray emission observations, is now a well-known probe of cosmology. Using a combination of SZ data and a map of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asantha Cooray

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

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

We use the suite of simulations presented in Poole et al (2006) to examine global X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) observables for systems of merging relaxed X-ray clusters. In all of the scaling relations generated from the properties we…

We present new measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from clusters of galaxies using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Infrared Experiment (SuZIE II). We combine these new measurements with previous cluster observations with the SuZIE…

The hot electrons in the intra-cluster medium produce a spectral distorsion of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) black body emission, the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (tSZ). This characteristic spectral distorsion is now commonly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 G. Hurier , C. Tchernin