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The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) and the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effects trace the distribution of electron pressure and momentum in the hot Universe. These observables depend on rich multi-scale physics, thus, simulated maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Leander Thiele , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , David N. Spergel , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich

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

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

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 develop a model for the power spectrum of unresolved clusters of galaxies arising from the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. The model is based on a'universal' gas pressure profile constrained by X-ray observations and includes a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 George Efstathiou , Marina Migliaccio

(Abridged) The amplitude of the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (tSZ) power spectrum is extremely sensitive to the abundance of galaxy clusters and therefore to fundamental cosmological parameters that control their growth, such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ian G. McCarthy , Amandine M. C. Le Brun , Joop Schaye , Gilbert P. Holder

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is the inverse-Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off hot, ionized electrons, primarily located in galaxy groups and clusters. Recent years have seen immense…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-22 J. Colin Hill

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

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is one of the primary tools for finding and characterizing galaxy clusters. Several ground-based experiments are either underway or are being planned for mapping wide areas of the sky at $\sim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-24 Nikhel Gupta , Cristiano Porciani , Kaustuv Basu

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

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is a powerful probe of cosmology. The statistical errors in the tSZ power spectrum measurements are dominated by the presence of massive clusters in a survey volume that are easy to identify on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Ken Osato , Masahiro Takada

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

Recent detections of the cross-correlation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect and weak gravitational lensing (WL) enable unique studies of cluster astrophysics and cosmology. In this work, we present constraints on the amplitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Ken Osato , Samuel Flender , Daisuke Nagai , Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a powerful probe of the evolution of structures in the universe, and is thus highly sensitive to cosmological parameters $\sigma_8$ and $\Omega_m$, though its power is hampered by the current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 G. Hurier , F. Lacasa

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

Secondary anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background are a treasure-trove of cosmological information. Interpreting current experiments probing them are limited by theoretical uncertainties rather than by measurement errors. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 N. Battaglia , J. R. Bond , C. Pfrommer , J. L. Sievers

We use an analytic model to investigate the theoretical uncertainty on the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) power spectrum due to astrophysical uncertainties in the thermal structure of the intracluster medium. Our model accounts for star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Laurie D. Shaw , Daisuke Nagai , Suman Bhattacharya , Erwin T. Lau

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

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

We propose a new analysis of small scale CMB data by introducing the cosmological dependency of the foreground signals, focusing first on the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) power spectrum, derived from the halo model. We analyse the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Marian Douspis , Laura Salvati , Adélie Gorce , Nabila Aghanim
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