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In galaxy clusters the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from the hot intracluster medium (ICM) provides a direct, self-contained measure of the pressure integrated over crossing lines of sight, that is intrinsically independent of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Cavaliere , A. Lapi

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

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

We use high-resolution hydrodynamic re-simulations to investigate the properties of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from galaxy clusters. We compare results obtained using different physical models for the intracluster medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. Bonaldi , G. Tormen , K. Dolag , L. Moscardini

The advent of high-resolution imaging of galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) provides a unique probe of the astrophysics of the intracluster medium (ICM) out to high redshifts. To investigate the effects of cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 John J. Ruan , Thomas R. Quinn , Arif Babul

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects are produced by the interaction of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons with the ionized and diffuse gas of electrons inside galaxy clusters integrated along the line of sight. The two main effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 G. Hurier

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

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a promising tool to study physical properties of the hot X-ray emitting intracluster medium (ICM) in galaxy clusters. To date, most SZ observations have been interpreted in combination with X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrea Morandi , Daisuke Nagai , Wei Cui

We constrain the rotational kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (rkSZ) effect in Planck data using a sample of rotating galaxy clusters identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We extract cluster-centered cutouts from Planck cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Eric J. Baxter , Blake D. Sherwin , Srinivasan Raghunathan

We present the analytical formulas, derived based on the halo model, to compute the cross-correlation between the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and the distribution of galaxy clusters. By binning the clusters according to their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Wenjuan Fang , Kenji Kadota , Masahiro Takada

The relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect offers a method, independent of X-ray, for measuring the temperature of the intracluster medium (ICM) in the hottest systems. Here, using N-body/hydrodynamic simulations of three galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Scott T. Kay , Leila C. Powell , Andrew R. Liddle , Peter A. Thomas

The polarization sensitivity of the upcoming millimetric observatories will open new possibilities for studying the properties of galaxy clusters and for using them as powerful cosmological probes. For this reason it is necessary to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Maturi , L. Moscardini , P. Mazzotta , K. Dolag , G. Tormen

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

We have imaged the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signals at 140 and 270 GHz towards ten galaxy clusters with Bolocam and AzTEC/ASTE. We also used Planck data to constrain the signal at large angular scales, Herschel-SPIRE images to…

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

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…

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

In recent years, observations of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect have had significant cosmological implications and have begun to serve as a powerful and independent probe of the warm and hot gas that pervades the Universe. As a few…

We investigate empirical scaling relations between the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE) and cluster mass in simulated clusters of galaxies. The simulated clusters have been compiled from four different samples that differ only in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick M. Motl , Eric J. Hallman , Jack O. Burns , Michael L. Norman

The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect and the X-ray emission offer separate and highly complementary probes of the thermodynamics of the intracluster medium, particularly on their radial dependence. We already released \texttt{JoXSZ},…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Fabio Castagna , Stefano Andreon , Alberto Trombetta , Marco Landoni
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