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Theoretical uncertainty limits our ability to extract cosmological information from baryonic fields such as the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect. Being sourced by the electron pressure field, the tSZ effect depends on baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-13 Leander Thiele , Miles Cranmer , William Coulton , Shirley Ho , David N. Spergel

Running hydrodynamical simulations to produce mock data of large-scale structure and baryonic probes, such as the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect, at cosmological scales is computationally challenging. We propose to leverage the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-13 Tilman Tröster , Cameron Ferguson , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Ian G. McCarthy

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

At high angular frequencies, beyond the damping tail of the primary power spectrum, the dominant contribution to the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations is the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-06 Dipak Munshi , Shahab Joudaki , Joseph Smidt , Peter Coles , Scott T. Kay

The thermal Sunyaev$-$Zel'dovich (SZ) effect offers a unique probe of the hot and diffuse universe that could help close the missing baryon problem. Traditional extractions of the SZ effect, however, exhibit systematic noise that may lead…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Cameron T. Pratt , Zhijie Qu , Joel N. Bregman

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect gives a measure of the thermal energy and electron pressure in groups and clusters of galaxies. In the near future SZ surveys will map hundreds of systems, shedding light on the pressure distribution in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-18 Troels Haugboelle , Jesper Sommer-Larsen , Kristian Pedersen

We present a new application of deep learning to infer the masses of galaxy clusters directly from images of the microwave sky. Effectively, this is a novel approach to determining the scaling relation between a cluster's Sunyaev-Zel'dovich…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-16 Nikhel Gupta , Christian L. Reichardt

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

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

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

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

The Planck collaboration has extensively used the six Planck HFI frequency maps to detect the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect with dedicated methods, e.g., by applying (i) component separation to construct a full sky map of the y parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Victor Bonjean

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect directly measures the thermal pressure of free electrons integrated along the line of sight and thus contains valuable information on the thermal history of the universe. However, the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-17 Jiawei Shao , Pengjie Zhang , Weipeng Lin , Yipeng Jing

Semi-analytic methods can generate baryon-corrected fields from N-body simulations (``baryonification'') and are rapidly becoming a ubiquitous tool in modeling structure formation on non-linear scales. We extend this formalism to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-12 Dhayaa Anbajagane , Shivam Pandey , Chihway Chang

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

At high angular frequencies the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect constitutes the dominant signal in the CMB sky. The tSZ effect is caused by large scale pressure fluctuations in the baryonic distribution in the Universe so its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-11 Dipak Munshi , Joseph Smidt , Shahab Joudaki , Peter Coles

We present results on the thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects from a sequence of high resolution hydrodynamic simulations of structure formation, including cooling, feedback and metal injection. These simulations represent a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin White , Lars Hernquist , Volker Springel

A complete picture of the gas thermodynamics around galaxies is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Indeed, the thermal, kinematic, and relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects (tSZ, kSZ, rSZ) measure the gas density,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Sadaf Kadir , Bernardita Ried Guachalla , Sihan Yuan , Emmanuel Schaan , Risa H. Wechsler

The Sunyaev-Zel'dolvich (SZ) effect is expected to be instrumental in measuring velocities of distant clusters in near future telescope surveys. We simplify the calculation of peculiar velocities of galaxy clusters using deep learning…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Yuyu Wang , Nesar Ramachandra , Edgar M. Salazar-Canizales , Hume A. Feldman , Richard Watkins , Klaus Dolag

With the advent of high-resolution, low-noise CMB measurements, the ability to extract cosmological information from thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect will be limited not by statistical uncertainties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Billy K. K. Lee , William R. Coulton , Leander Thiele , Shirley Ho
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