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Constraints On Dark Energy Models From Galaxy Clusters and Gravitational Lensing Data

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

Extraction of cluster parameters with future Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect of galaxy clusters is characterized by three parameters: Compton parameter, electron temperature and cluster peculiar velocity. In the present study we consider the problem of extracting these parameters…

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

A new method of measuring the peculiar velocity power spectrum

We show that by directly correlating the cluster kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich (KSZ) flux, the cluster peculiar velocity power spectrum can be measured to $\sim 10%$ accuracy by future large sky coverage KSZ surveys. This method is almost free…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pengjie Zhang , Albert Stebbins , Roman Juszkiewicz , Hume Feldman

The Morphology of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Sky

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

WMAP Observations of Planck ESZ Clusters

We examine the Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect in the 7-yr Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data by cross-correlating it with the Planck Early-release Sunyaev--Zeldovich catalog. Our analysis proceeds in two parts. We first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yin-Zhe Ma , Gary Hinshaw , Douglas Scott

The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey

We describe the observations and resultant galaxy cluster catalog from the 2770 deg$^2$ SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey (SPT-ECS). Clusters are identified via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, and confirmed with a combination of archival…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 L. E. Bleem , S. Bocquet , B. Stalder , M. D. Gladders , P. A. R. Ade , S. W. Allen , A. J. Anderson , J. Annis , M. L. N. Ashby , J. E. Austermann , S. Avila , J. S. Avva , M. Bayliss , J. A. Beall , K. Bechtol , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , F. Bianchini , C. Blake , M. Brodwin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , R. Citron , C. Corbett Moran , M. Costanzi , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , L. N. da Costa , T. de Haan , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , T. F. Eifler , W. Everett , B. Flaugher , B. Floyd , J. Frieman , J. Gallicchio , J. García-Bellido , E. M. George , D. W. Gerdes , A. Gilbert , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , C. Heymans , G. P. Holder , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , S. Joudaki , G. Khullar , M. Klein , L. Knox , N. Kuropatkin , A. T. Lee , D. Li , C. Lidman , A. Lowitz , N. MacCrann , G. Mahler , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. Noble , V. Novosad , S. Padin , A. Palmese , D. Parkinson , S. Patil , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , N. S. Ramachandra , C. L. Reichardt , J. D. Remolina González , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , J. E. Ruhl , E. S. Rykoff , B. R. Saliwanchik , E. Sanchez , A. Saro , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , T. Schrabback , S. Serrano , K. Sharon , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , J. Weller , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , Y. Zhang

Missing Thermal Energy of the Intracluster Medium

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a direct probe of thermal energy content of the Universe, induced in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky through scattering of CMB photons off hot electrons in the intracluster medium (ICM). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Niayesh Afshordi , Yen-Ting Lin , Daisuke Nagai , Alastair J. R. Sanderson

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovitch effect as a dark energy probe

Upcoming observatories will be able to detect the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovitch (kSZ) effect with unprecendented signal-to-noise, and cross-correlations with foreground signals such as galaxy counts are a promising way to extract additional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon DeDeo , David N. Spergel , Hy Trac

Modeling Integrated Properties and the Polarization of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

Two little explored aspects of Compton scattering of the CMB in clusters are discussed: The statistical properties of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (S-Z) effect in the context of a non-Gaussian density fluctuation field, and the polarization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 Y. Rephaeli , S. Sadeh , M. Shimon

The pairwise and cross-pairwise y-type polarised kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich effect from transverse velocity of galaxy clusters

We develop a new theoretical framework for studying the pairwise and cross-pairwise polarised kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich (pkSZ) effect arising from the transverse peculiar velocity of galaxy clusters. The pkSZ effect is second order in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Aritra Kumar Gon , Rishi Khatri

Planck/SDSS Cluster Mass and Gas Scaling Relations for a Volume-Complete redMaPPer Sample

Using Planck satellite data, we construct SZ gas pressure profiles for a large, volume-complete sample of optically selected clusters. We have defined a sample of over 8,000 redMaPPer clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Pablo Jimeno , Jose-Maria Diego , Tom Broadhurst , Ivan De Martino , Ruth Lazkoz

Galaxy clusters discovered with a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect survey

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is conducting a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect survey over large areas of the southern sky, searching for massive galaxy clusters to high redshift. In this preliminary study, we focus on a 40 square-degree…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-25 Z. Staniszewski , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. -M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , N. W. Halverson , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , M. Joy , R. Keisler , T. M. Lanting , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , A. Loehr , M. Lueker , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , C. -C. Ngeow , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , B. Stalder , A. A. Stark , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , O. Zahn , A. Zenteno

Planck Early Results XI: Calibration of the local galaxy cluster Sunyaev-Zeldovich scaling relations

We present precise Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect measurements in the direction of 62 nearby galaxy clusters (z <0.5) detected at high signal-to-noise in the first Planck all-sky dataset. The sample spans approximately a decade in total…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Planck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , 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 , H. Bourdin , M. L. Brown , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , P. Cabella , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , L. Cayón , A. Challinor , A. Chamballu , 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 , J. Lanoux , A. Lasenby , R. J. Laureijs , C. R. Lawrence , S. Leach , R. Leonardi , A. Liddle , P. B. Lilje , 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 , J. P. Rachen , 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 , G. Savini , B. M. Schaefer , D. Scott , M. D. Seiffert , P. Shellard , G. F. Smoot , J. -L. Starck , F. Stivoli , V. Stolyarov , R. Sudiwala , R. Sunyaev , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , J. -P. Torre , M. Tristram , J. Tuovinen , L. Valenziano , L. Vibert , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , S. D. M. White , M. White , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

Subtracting the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect from the cosmic microwave background with surveys of large-scale structure

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect will be an important source of cosmological and astrophysical information in upcoming surveys of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). However, the kSZ effect will also act as the dominant source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-10 Simon Foreman , Selim C. Hotinli , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Alexander van Engelen , Christina D. Kreisch

Measurement of the Full Shape of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich Power Spectrum from South Pole Telescope and {\it Herschel}-SPIRE Observations

We present a measurement of the full shape of the power spectrum of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect down to arcminute scales using cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) over roughly 100 ${\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 S. Raghunathan , P. A. R. Ade , D. Anbajagane , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , J. E. Austermann , L. Balkenhol , D. R. Barron , P. S. Barry , J. A. Beall , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , J. Bock , S. Bocquet , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , E. Camphuis , M. G. Campitiello , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carron , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , H. C. Chiang , P. M. Chichura , A. Chokshi , T. -L. Chou , R. Citron , A. Coerver , C. Corbett Moran , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , M. Doohan , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , N. C. Ferree , K. Fichman , A. Foster , S. Galli , J. Gallicchio , A. E. Gambrel , A. K. Gao , R. W. Gardner , F. Ge , E. M. George , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , A. Y. Q. Ho , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , J. D. Hrubes , A. Hryciuk , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , T. Jhaveri , F. Kéruzoré , A. R. Khalife , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , K. Levy , Y. Li , D. Li , A. E. Lowitz , A. Lowitz , C. Lu , G. P. Lynch , T. J. Maccarone , A. S. Maniyar , E. S. Martsen , J. J. McMahon , F. Menanteau , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , A. Ouellette , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , S. Patil , K. A. Phadke , A. W. Pollak , K. Prabhu , C. Pryke , W. Quan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , K. K. Schaffer , E. Schiappucci , C. Sievers , A. C. Silva Oliveira , A. Simpson , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , C. Tandoi , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Tucker , C. Umilta , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , A. G. Vieregg , M. P. Viero , A. Vitrier , Y. Wan , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski , M. Zemcov

Probing the Evolution of Gas Mass Fraction with Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

Study of the primary anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) can be used to determine the cosmological parameters to a very high precision. The power spectrum of the secondary CMB anisotropies due to the thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Subhabrata Majumdar

Simulations of the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Signal

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 Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey X: Initial Results from a Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Study of Massive Galaxy Clusters at z>1 using MUSTANG2 on the GBT

The properties of galaxy clusters as a function of redshift can be utilized as an important cosmological tool. We present initial results from a program of follow-up observations of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE) in high redshift galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-03 Simon R. Dicker , Charles E. Romero , Luca Di Mascolo , Tony Mroczkowski , Jonathan Sievers , Emily Moravec , Tanay Bhandarkar , Mark Brodwin , Thomas Connor , Bandon Decker , Mark Devlin , Anthony H. Gonzalez , Ian Lowe , Brian S. Mason , Craig Sarazin , Spencer A. Stanford , Daniel Stern , Khunanon Thongkham , Dominika Wylezalek , Fernando Zago

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Signal of the maxBCG SDSS Galaxy Clusters in WMAP

The Planck Collaboration measured the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) decrement of optically selected clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, finding that it falls significantly below expectations based on existing mass calibration of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Patrick Draper , Scott Dodelson , Jiangang Hao , Eduardo Rozo

A Comparison of Algorithms for the Construction of SZ Cluster Catalogues

We evaluate the construction methodology of an all-sky catalogue of galaxy clusters detected through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. We perform an extensive comparison of twelve algorithms applied to the same detailed simulations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. -B. Melin , N. Aghanim , M. Bartelmann , J. G. Bartlett , M. Betoule , J. Bobin , P. Carvalho , G. Chon , J. Delabrouille , J. M. Diego , D. L. Harrison , D. Herranz , M. Hobson , R. Kneissl , A. N. Lasenby , M. Le Jeune , M. Lopez-Caniego , P. Mazzotta , G. M. Rocha , B. M. Schaefer , J. -L. Starck , J. -C. Waizmann , D. Yvon