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In the coming years, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) measurements can dramatically improve our understanding of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) and the role of feedback processes on galaxy formation, allowing us to calibrate important astrophysical…

We examine, from first principles, the angular power spectrum between the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) and the reconstructed galaxy momentum - the basis of existing and future "kSZ stacking" analyses. We present a comprehensive…

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Future arcminute resolution polarization data from ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations can be used to estimate the contribution to the temperature power spectrum from the primary anisotropies and to uncover the…

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

We determine the efficacy of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signal extraction pipeline, using pairwise kSZ measurements, in recovering unbiased estimates of the signal and inference of the associated optical depth. We consider the impact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-15 Yulin Gong , Rachel Bean , Patricio A. Gallardo , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Nicholas Battaglia , Michael Niemack

We use numerical simulation of cosmological reionization to calculate the secondary CMB anisotropies in a representative flat low density cosmological model. We show that the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (scattering off of moving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Andrew H. Jaffe

We consider the polarized Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (pSZ) effect for a tomographic probe of cosmic birefringence, including all relevant terms of the pSZ effect in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) observables, some of which were ignored in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-30 Toshiya Namikawa , Ippei Obata

We present and study a new cross-pairwise estimator to extract the kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich (kSZ) signal from galaxy clusters. The existing pairwise kSZ method involves pairing clusters with other clusters and stacking them. In the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-05 Aritra Kumar Gon , Rishi Khatri

The secondary anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide a wealth of astrophysical and cosmological information. Pairing measurements of the CMB temperature map obtained by DR5 of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Noah Sailer , Simone Ferraro

We present forecasts for cosmological parameters from future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data measured by the Stage-4 (S4) generation of ground-based experiments in combination with large-scale anisotropy data from the PIXIE…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Erminia Calabrese , David Alonso , Jo Dunkley

Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) can be induced during the later stages of cosmic evolution, and in particular during and after the Epoch of Reionisation. Inhomogeneities in the ionised fraction, but also in the baryon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-15 Christian Fidler , Christophe Ringeval

We explore the significance of noise from thermal Sunyaev-Zel{'}dovich (tSZ) signals for cluster detection using cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys. The noise arises both from neighboring objects and also from haloes below the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Srinivasan Raghunathan

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect has now become a clear target for ongoing and future studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and cosmology. Aside from the bulk cluster motion, internal motions also lead to a kSZ signal.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Edoardo Altamura , Scott T. Kay , Jens Chluba , Imogen Towler

Kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich velocity reconstruction uses the statistically anisotropic cross-correlation between cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies and a galaxy survey to reconstruct the remotely observed CMB dipole.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 Jordan Krywonos , Selim C. Hotinli , Matthew C. Johnson

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect measures the line-of-sight projection of the thermal pressure of free electrons and lacks any redshift information. By cross correlating the tSZ effect with an external cosmological tracer we can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-11 Geraint Pratten , Dipak Munshi

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from clusters of galaxies should yield a significant signal in cosmic microwave background(CMB) experiments at small angular scales ($\ell \ga 1000$). Experiments with sufficient frequency coverage should…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gilbert P. Holder , John E. Carlstrom

In the standard hot cosmological model, the black-body temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), $T_{\rm CMB}$, increases linearly with redshift. Across the line of sight CMB photons interact with the hot ($\sim10^{7-8}$ K) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Hurier , N. Aghanim , M. Douspis , E. Pointecouteau

The kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies induced by scattering of CMB photons from free electrons, forms the dominant blackbody component of the CMB on small angular scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 Fiona McCarthy , Matthew C. Johnson

We study the contribution of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, generated by the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies in the Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Ricardo Genova-Santos , Fernando Atrio-Barandela , Jan Muecket , Jochen Klar