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The Power Spectrum of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

(Abridged) The hot gas in the IGM produces anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) through the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The SZ effect is a powerful probe of large-scale structure in the universe and must be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 A. Refregier , E. Komatsu , D. N. Spergel , U. -L. Pen

SZ effects in the Magneticum Pathfinder Simulation: Comparison with the Planck, SPT, and ACT results

We calculate the one-point probability density distribution functions (PDF) and the power spectra of the thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ and kSZ) effects and the mean Compton Y parameter using the Magneticum Pathfinder…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Klaus Dolag , Eiichiro Komatsu , Rashid Sunyaev

Using peak distribution of the cosmic microwave background for MAP and Planck data analysis: formalism and simulations

We implement and further refine the recently proposed method (Kashlinsky, Hern\'andez-Monteagudo & Atrio-Barandela, 2001 - KHA) for a time efficient extraction of the power spectrum from future cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , A. Kashlinsky , F. Atrio-Barandela

Constraining the properties of gaseous halos via cross-correlations of upcoming galaxy surveys and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich maps

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect induces a Compton-$y$ distortion in cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps that is sensitive to a line of sight integral of the ionized gas pressure. By correlating the positions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 S. Pandey , E. J. Baxter , J. C. Hill

The thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in galaxy clusters and filaments using multifrequency temperature maps of the cosmic microwave background: Abell 399--Abell 401 cluster pair case study

We present a multifrequency and multi-instrument methodology to study the physical properties of galaxy clusters and cosmic filaments using cosmic microwave background observations. Our approach enables simultaneous measurement of both the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Ajay S. Gill , Yilun Guan , Adam D. Hincks , Tony Mroczkowski , Zachary Atkins , Eleonora Barbavara , Elia S. Battistelli , J. Richard Bond , William Coulton , Adri J. Duivenvoorden , Matt Hilton , John P. Hughes , Giovanni Isopi , Joshiwa van Marrewijk , Kavilan Moodley , Sigurd Naess , Bruce Partridge , Bernardita Ried Guachalla , John Orlowski-Scherer , Cristóbal Sifón , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack

A Measurement of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background Using SPT-3G 2018 Data

We present a measurement of gravitational lensing over 1500 deg$^2$ of the Southern sky using SPT-3G temperature data at 95 and 150 GHz taken in 2018. The lensing amplitude relative to a fiducial Planck 2018 $\Lambda$CDM cosmology is found…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-31 Z. Pan , F. Bianchini , W. L. K. Wu , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , E. Anderes , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , K. Aylor , L. Balkenhol , P. S. Barry , R. Basu Thakur , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , K. Byrum , E. Camphuis , J. E. Carlstrom , F. W. Carter , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , G. Chen , P. M. Chichura , H. -M. Cho , T. -L. Chou , J. -F. Cliche , A. Coerver , T. M. Crawford , A. Cukierman , C. Daley , T. de Haan , E. V. Denison , K. R. Dibert , J. Ding , M. A. Dobbs , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , K. Fichman , A. Foster , J. Fu , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , F. Ge , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , A. H. Harke-Hosemann , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , D. Howe , N. Huang , K. D. Irwin , O. Jeong , M. Jonas , A. Jones , F. Kéruzoré , T. S. Khaire , L. Knox , A. M. Kofman , M. Korman , D. L. Kubik , S. Kuhlmann , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , K. Levy , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , A. Maniyar , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , D. Michalik , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , P. Paschos , J. Pearson , C. M. Posada , K. Prabhu , W. Quan , S. Raghunathan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , D. Riebel , B. Riedel , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , E. Schiappucci , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , K. T. Story , A. Suzuki , S. Takakura , C. Tandoi , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Tucker , C. Umilta , L. R. Vale , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski

Planck 2015 results. IX. Diffuse component separation: CMB maps

We present foreground-reduced CMB maps derived from the full Planck data set in both temperature and polarization. Compared to the corresponding Planck 2013 temperature sky maps, the total data volume is larger by a factor of 3.2 for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Planck Collaboration , R. Adam , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , M. Arnaud , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , J. G. Bartlett , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoît , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , A. Bonaldi , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , B. Casaponsa , G. Castex , A. Catalano , A. Challinor , A. Chamballu , R. -R. Chary , H. C. Chiang , P. R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , F. -X. Désert , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , E. Falgarone , Y. Fantaye , J. Fergusson , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frejsel , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , T. Ghosh , M. Giard , Y. Giraud-Héraud , E. Gjerløw , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , F. K. Hansen , D. Hanson , D. L. Harrison , G. Helou , S. Henrot-Versillé , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , W. Hovest , K. M. Huffenberger , G. Hurier , A. H. Jaffe , T. R. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , T. S. Kisner , R. Kneissl , J. Knoche , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , R. Leonardi , J. Lesgourgues , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , D. J. Marshall , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , P. Mazzotta , P. McGehee , P. R. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , D. Molinari , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , A. Moss , D. Munshi , J. A. Murphy , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , C. A. Oxborrow , F. Paci , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , R. Paladini , D. Paoletti , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , T. J. Pearson , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , G. W. Pratt , G. Prézeau , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , B. Racine , W. T. Reach , R. Rebolo , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , A. Renzi , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , M. Rossetti , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , M. Sandri , D. Santos , M. Savelainen , G. Savini , D. Scott , M. D. Seiffert , E. P. S. Shellard , L. D. Spencer , V. Stolyarov , R. Stompor , R. Sudiwala , R. Sunyaev , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , T. Trombetti , M. Tucci , J. Tuovinen , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

Tracing Missing Baryons in the Cosmic Filaments with tSZ and CMB-Lensing Stacking

We investigate the distribution of missing baryons in the cosmic filaments by stacking $\sim 30,700$ filaments across the northern and southern SDSS sky regions using Planck Compton-$y$ and CMB lensing maps. Filaments are identified using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Jianzhuo Li , Yi Zheng , Weishan Zhu

The CMB power spectrum at l=30-200 from QMASK

We measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum on angular scales l~30-200 (1-6 degrees) from the QMASK map, which combines the data from the QMAP and Saskatoon experiments. Since the accuracy of recent measurements leftward…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Yongzhong Xu , Max Tegmark , Angelica de Oliveira-Costa

Combining Planck and SPT cluster catalogs: cosmological analysis and impact on Planck scaling relation calibration

We provide the first combined cosmological analysis of South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck cluster catalogs. The aim is to provide an independent calibration for Planck scaling relations, exploiting the cosmological constraining power of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 L. Salvati , A. Saro , S. Bocquet , M. Costanzi , B. Ansarinejad , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , M. S. Calzadilla , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , R. Chown , A. T. Crites , T. deHaan , M. A. Dobbs , W. B. Everett , B. Floyd , S. Grandis , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , A. T. Lee , D. Luong-Van , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , Y. Omori , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , F. Ruppin , K. K. Schaffer , T. Schrabback , E. Shirokoff , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson

A Measurement of the CMB Temperature Power Spectrum and Constraints on Cosmology from the SPT-3G 2018 TT/TE/EE Data Set

We present a sample-variance-limited measurement of the temperature power spectrum ($TT$) of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using observations of a $\sim\! 1500 \,\mathrm{deg}^2$ field made by SPT-3G in 2018. We report multifrequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-28 L. Balkenhol , D. Dutcher , A. Spurio Mancini , A. Doussot , K. Benabed , S. Galli , P. A. R. Ade , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , E. Camphuis , J. E. Carlstrom , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , P. M. Chichura , T. -L. Chou , A. Coerver , T. M. Crawford , A. Cukierman , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , A. Foster , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , N. Huang , L. Knox , M. Korman , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , K. Prabhu , W. Quan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , E. Schiappucci , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , A. Suzuki , C. Tandoi , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , C. Tucker , C. Umilta , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski

Joint 3D modelling of the polarized Galactic synchrotron and thermal dust foreground diffuse emission

We present for the first time a coherent model of the polarized Galactic synchrotron and thermal dust emissions which are the main diffuse foreground for the measurement of the polarized power spectra of the CMB fluctuations with the Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macías-Pérez , J. Aumont , F. X. Désert , T. R. Jaffe , A. J. Banday , M. Tristram , A. H. Waelkens , D. Santos

Constraints on a Stochastic Background of Primordial Magnetic Fields with WMAP and South Pole Telescope data

We constrain a stochastic background of primordial magnetic fields (PMF) by its contribution to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy angular power spectrum with the combination of WMAP 7 year and South Pole Telescope (SPT) data.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-23 Daniela Paoletti , Fabio Finelli

A Measurement of the Damping Tail of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum with the South Pole Telescope

We present a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The data consist of 790 square degrees of sky observed at 150 GHz during 2008 and 2009. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 R. Keisler , C. L. Reichardt , 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 , J. Dudley , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , M. Joy , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , T. Natoli , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , J. E. Ruhl , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Story , A. van Engelen , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson , O. Zahn

Constraints from thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts and power spectrum combined with CMB

Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect is one of the recent probes of cosmology and large scale structures. We update constraints on cosmological parameters from galaxy clusters observed by the Planck satellite in a first attempt to combine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Laura Salvati , Marian Douspis , Nabila Aghanim

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR5 maps of 18,000 square degrees of the microwave sky from ACT 2008-2018 data

This paper presents a maximum-likelihood algorithm for combining sky maps with disparate sky coverage, angular resolution and spatially varying anisotropic noise into a single map of the sky. We use this to merge hundreds of individual maps…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-19 Sigurd Naess , Simone Aiola , Jason E. Austermann , Nick Battaglia , James A. Beall , Daniel T. Becker , Richard J. Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Steve K. Choi , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin T. Crowley , Omar Darwish , Rahul Datta , Edward V. Denison , Mark Devlin , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Anna E. Fox , Patricio A. Gallardo , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Matthew Hasselfield , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Arthur B. Kosowsky , Thibaut Louis , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Jeff McMahon , Kavilan Moodley , Federico Nati , John P. Nibarger , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman Page , Bruce Partridge , Maria Salatino , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Benjamin Schmitt , Blake D. Sherwin , Neelima Sehgal , Cristóbal Sifón , David Spergel , Suzanne Staggs , Jason Stevens , Emilie Storer , Joel N. Ullom , Leila R. Vale , Alexander Van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

Probing the cosmic microwave background temperature using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

We discuss the possibility to constrain the relation between redshift and temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using multifrequency Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) observations. We have simulated a catalog of clusters of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cathy Horellou , Martin Nord , Daniel Johansson , Anna Levy

Assessing consistency between CMB temperature and polarization measurements, with application to Planck, ACT and SPT

Planck's Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization observations are the premier dataset for constraining cosmological models. Cosmic variance limited temperature at large and intermediate scales today dominates the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Adrien La Posta , Umberto Natale , Erminia Calabrese , Xavier Garrido , Thibaut Louis

The effect of bandpass uncertainties on component separation

Multi-frequency measurements of the microwave sky can be decomposed into maps of distinct physical components such as the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. Each of the multi--frequency measurements is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sarah Church , Lloyd Knox , Martin White

The Design and Integrated Performance of SPT-3G

SPT-3G is the third survey receiver operating on the South Pole Telescope dedicated to high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Sensitive measurements of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 J. A. Sobrin , A. J. Anderson , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , D. Dutcher , A. Foster , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , A. Rahlin , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , E. Anderes , M. Archipley , J. E. Austermann , J. S. Avva , K. Aylor , L. Balkenhol , P. S. Barry , R. Basu Thakur , K. Benabed , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , K. Byrum , J. E. Carlstrom , F. W. Carter , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , G. Chen , H. -M. Cho , T. -L. Chou , J. -F. Cliche , T. M. Crawford , A. Cukierman , C. Daley , T. de Haan , E. V. Denison , K. Dibert , J. Ding , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , J. Fu , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , R. Gualtieri , S. Guns , N. Gupta , R. Guyser , N. W. Halverson , A. H. Harke-Hosemann , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , D. Howe , N. Huang , K. D. Irwin , O. B. Jeong , M. Jonas , A. Jones , T. S. Khaire , L. Knox , A. M. Kofman , M. Korman , D. L. Kubik , S. Kuhlmann , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , S. S. Meyer , D. Michalik , M. Millea , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , J. Pearson , C. M. Posada , K. Prabhu , W. Quan , C. L. Reichardt , D. Riebel , B. Riedel , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , B. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , E. Schiappucci , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , K. T. Story , A. Suzuki , C. Tandoi , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , C. Tucker , C. Umilta , L. R. Vale , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , M. R. Young