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Sensitive surveys of the Cosmic Microwave Background will detect thousands of galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. Two SZ observables, the central or maximum and integrated Comptonization parameters y_max and Y, relate in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel R. Wik , Craig L. Sarazin , Paul M. Ricker , Scott W. Randall

We present the first joint analysis of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect with galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) for CMASS galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We show these complementary probes can disentangle…

Stacking cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps around known galaxy clusters and groups provides a powerful probe of the distribution of hot gas in these systems via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. A stacking analysis allows one to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Vinu Vikram , Adam Lidz , Bhuvnesh Jain

Baryon feedback redistributes gas relative to the underlying dark matter distribution and suppresses the matter power spectrum on small scales, but the amplitude and scale dependence of this effect are uncertain. We constrain the impact of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Jared Siegel , Leah Bigwood , Alexandra Amon , Jamie McCullough , Masaya Yamamoto , Ian G. McCarthy , Matthieu Schaller , Aurel Schneider , Joop Schaye

The uncertainties in photometric redshifts and stellar masses from imaging surveys affect galaxy sample selection, their abundance measurements, as well as the measured weak lensing signals. We develop a framework to assess the systematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-12 Navin Chaurasiya , Surhud More , Daichi Kashino , Shogo Masaki , Shogo Ishikawa

We study three cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way(MW)-sized halos including a comparison with the dark matter(DM)-only counterparts. We find one of our simulated galaxies with interesting MW-like features. Thanks to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Pol Mollitor , Emmanuel Nezri , Romain Teyssier

Baryonic effects such as AGN feedback can significantly impact the matter clustering, are harder to model from first principles, and emerge as a severe limiting factor in weak lensing cosmology. To tackle this issue, we propose a generic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Shuren Zhou , Pengjie Zhang

(Abridged) The effect of baryonic feedback on the dark matter mass distribution is generally considered to be a nuisance to weak gravitational lensing. Measurements of cosmological parameters are affected as feedback alters the cosmic shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Ludovic van Waerbeke , Massimo Viola , Catherine Heymans

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect associated with pressure fluctuations of the large scale structure gas distribution will be probed with current and upcoming wide-field small angular scale cosmic microwave background experiments. We study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Asantha Cooray

Galaxies, diffuse gas, and dark matter make up the cosmic web that defines the large-scale structure of the Universe. We constrained the joint distribution of these constituents by cross-correlating galaxy samples binned by stellar mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Raphaël Kou , James G. Bartlett

Measurements of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) hold the promise of yielding unique insights into cosmology at high redshift. Uncertainties due to baryonic effects associated with galaxy formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Eegene Chung , Simon Foreman , Alexander van Engelen

In this review, I outline the use of galaxy correlations to constrain cosmological parameters. As with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the density of dark and baryonic matter imprints important scales on the fluctuations of matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert C. Nichol

Studying galaxy clusters through their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) imprint on the Cosmic Microwave Background has many important advantages. The total SZ signal is an accurate and precise tracer of the total pressure in the intra-cluster medium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-19 Keith Grainge , Stefano Borgani , Sergio Colafrancesco , Chiara Ferrari , Anna Scaife , Paolo Marchegiani , S. Emritte , J. Weller

Weak gravitational lensing and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect provide complementary information on the composition of clusters of galaxies. Preliminary results from cluster SZ observations with the Very Small Array are presented. A Bayesian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. J. Marshall , K. Lancaster , M. P. Hobson , K. J. B. Grainge

We examine the importance of baryonic feedback effects on the matter power spectrum on small scales, and the implications for the precise measurement of neutrino masses through gravitational weak lensing. Planned large galaxy surveys such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-24 Aravind Natarajan , Andrew R. Zentner , Nicholas Battaglia , Hy Trac

The cross-correlation of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZ) and weak-lensing imaging surveys can be used to test how well hot baryons trace dark matter in clusters of galaxies. We examine this concept using mock SZ and weak-lensing surveys…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Keiichi Umetsu , Jun-Mein Wu , Tzihong Chiueh , Mark Birkinshaw

We present a new method for joint cosmological parameter inference and cluster mass calibration from a combination of weak lensing measurements and the abundance of thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) selected galaxy clusters. We combine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Andrina Nicola , Jo Dunkley , David N. Spergel

We present a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) weak gravitational lensing study of nine distant and massive galaxy clusters with redshifts $1.0 \lesssim z \lesssim 1.7$ ($z_\mathrm{median} = 1.4$) and Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) detection…

Following on our previous study of an analytic parametric model to describe the baryonic and dark matter distributions in clusters of galaxies with spherical symmetry, we perform an SZ analysis of a set of simulated clusters and present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Olamaie , M. P. Hobson , K. J. B. Grainge