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We study the potential of the kinematic SZ effect as a probe for cosmology, focusing on the pairwise method. The main challenge is disentangling the cosmologically interesting mean pairwise velocity from the cluster optical depth and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-02 Bjoern Soergel , Alexandro Saro , Tommaso Giannantonio , George Efstathiou , Klaus Dolag

Future multifrequency microwave background experiments with arcminute resolution and micro-Kelvin temperature sensitivity will be able to detect the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect, providing a way to measure radial peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Suman Bhattacharya , Arthur Kosowsky

In the context of a cosmological study of the bulk flows in the Universe, we present a detailed study of the statistical properties of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. We first compute analytically the correlation function and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , L. Verde , Raul Jimenez , D. N. Spergel

We perform kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) velocity reconstruction on data from ACT DR6 and DESI-LS DR9. To estimate the cross-power between kSZ velocity reconstruction and galaxy density, we make use of a novel quadratic maximum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Anderson C. M. Lai , Yurii Kvasiuk , Moritz Münchmeyer

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 kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect is a blackbody cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropy induced by Thomson scattering off free electrons in bulk motion with respect to the CMB rest frame. The statistically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Richard Bloch , Matthew C. Johnson

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect has now become a clear target for ongoing and future studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and cosmology. Aside from the bulk cluster motion, internal motions also lead to a kSZ signal.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Edoardo Altamura , Scott T. Kay , Jens Chluba , Imogen Towler

We present the mean pairwise momentum of clusters, as observed through the kinematic Sunvaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, as a novel probe of massive neutrinos. We find that kSZ measurements with current and upcoming surveys will provide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Eva-Maria Mueller , Francesco de Bernardis , Rachel Bean , Michael D. Niemack

We propose the use of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect to probe the circumgalactic medium (CGM), with the aid of a spectroscopic survey covering the same area of a SZ survey. One can design an optimal estimator of the kSZ effect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jiawei Shao , Taotao Fang

The fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) intensity due to the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect are the sum of a thermal and a kinetic contribution. Separating the two components to measure the peculiar velocity of galaxy…

We investigate the possibility of probing dark energy by measuring the isotropy of the galaxy cluster autocorrelation function (an Alcock-Paczynski test). The correlation function is distorted in redshift space because of the cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Young-Rae Kim , Rupert Croft

We report a $5\sigma$ detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, combining galaxy clusters in DESI imaging surveys and the Planck temperature maps. The detection is facilitated by both improvements in the data and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-16 Ziyang Chen , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Yi Zheng

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

In this review we present a comprehensive discussion of peculiar velocity field measured recently on very large scales with a novel method using X-ray galaxy clusters as tracers. The measurement is based on the kinematic component of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-06 A. Kashlinsky , F. Atrio-Barandela , H. Ebeling

New generation ground and space-based CMB experiments have ushered in discoveries of massive galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect, providing a new window for studying cluster astrophysics and cosmology. Many of the newly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jens Chluba , Daisuke Nagai , Sergey Sazonov , Kaylea Nelson

We determine the efficacy of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signal extraction pipeline, using pairwise kSZ measurements, in recovering unbiased estimates of the signal and inference of the associated optical depth. We consider the impact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-15 Yulin Gong , Rachel Bean , Patricio A. Gallardo , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Nicholas Battaglia , Michael Niemack

The kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies induced by the scattering of CMB photons from free electrons, will be measured by near-term CMB experiments at high significance. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Dagoberto Contreras , Fiona McCarthy , Matthew C. Johnson

Galaxy clusters are potentially powerful probes of the large-scale velocity field in the Universe because their peculiar velocity can be estimated directly via the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (kSZ). Using high-resolution cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Daisuke Nagai , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Arthur Kosowsky

The peculiar motions of massive halos probe the distribution of matter in the universe, the gravitational potential, and the history of cosmic structure growth. The kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect offers a robust observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Patricio A. Gallardo , Yulin Gong , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Yun-Hsin Hsu