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Upcoming measurements of the high-redshift 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are a promising probe of the astrophysics of the first galaxies and of cosmological parameters. In particular, the optical depth $\tau$ to the last…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-29 Tashalee S. Billings , Paul La Plante , James E. Aguirre

We present new predictions for temperature (on small angular scales) and polarization (on large angular scales) CMB anisotropies induced during the epoch of reionization (EoR). Using a novel method calibrated from Radiation-Hydrodynamic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Nick Battaglia , Aravind Natarajan , Hy Trac , Renyue Cen , Abraham Loeb

Future data from galaxy redshift surveys, combined with high-resolutions maps of the cosmic microwave background, will enable measurements of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal with unprecedented statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Samuel Flender , Daisuke Nagai , Michael McDonald

The kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect -- the Doppler boosting of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons scattering off free electrons with non-zero line-of-sight velocity -- is an excellent probe of the distribution of baryons in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Aleksandra Kusiak , Boris Bolliet , Simone Ferraro , J. Colin Hill , Alex Krolewski

The kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies induced by scattering from free electrons in bulk motion, is a primary target of future CMB experiments. Measurements of the kSZ effect have the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Juan I. Cayuso , Matthew C. Johnson , James B. Mertens

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

Over the past decade, the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect has emerged as an observational probe of the distribution of baryons and velocity fields in the late Universe. Of the many ways to detect the kSZ, the 'projected-fields kSZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Raagini Patki , Nicholas Battaglia , Simone Ferraro

The kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect --- the Doppler boosting of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons due to Compton-scattering off free electrons with non-zero bulk velocity --- probes the abundance and distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 J. Colin Hill , Simone Ferraro , Nick Battaglia , Jia Liu , David N. Spergel

The power spectrum of reconstructed cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing maps is a powerful tool for constraints on cosmological parameters like the sum of the neutrino masses and the dark energy equation of state. One possible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Hongbo Cai , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , J. Colin Hill , Arthur Kosowsky

We study the constraints that future multifrequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments will be able to set on the metal enrichment history of the Inter Galactic Medium at the epoch of reionisation. We forecast the signal to noise…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Licia Verde , Raul Jimenez

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

We present a forecast of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) measurement that will be achievable with the future CMB-S4 experiment. CMB-S4 is the next stage for ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments, with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-30 E. Schiappucci , S. Raghunathan , C. To , F. Bianchini , C. L. Reichardt , N. Battaglia , B. Hadzhiyska , S. Kim , J. B. Melin , C. Sifón , E. M. Vavagiakis

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys will soon make the first detection of the polarized Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, the linear polarization generated by the scattering of CMB photons on the free electrons present in collapsed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-04 Joel Meyers , P. Daniel Meerburg , Alexander van Engelen , Nicholas Battaglia

A new generation of CMB experiments will soon make sensitive high resolution maps of the microwave sky. At angular scales less than $\sim$10 arcminutes, most CMB anisotropies are generated at z $< 1000$, rather than at the surface of last…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Mario A. Riquelme , David N. Spergel

A key result from JWST's first cycles is that galaxy formation was well underway by $z=10$. The implications of these early galaxies for reionization are less clear, however. The CMB is one of the few windows into the ionization state of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Garett Lopez , Anson D'Aloisio , Christopher Cain

Measurements of secondary cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, such as the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, will enable new tests of neutrino and dark sector properties. The kinetic SZ (kSZ) effect is produced by cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 Gerrit S. Farren , Daniel Grin , Andrew H. Jaffe , Renée Hložek , David J. E. Marsh

The kinetic SZ effect, which is the dominant CMB source at arc-minute scales and $\nu \sim 217$ Ghz, probes the ionized gas peculiar momentum up to the epoch of reionization and is a sensitive measure of the reionization history. We ran…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pengjie Zhang , Ue-Li Pen , Hy Trac

In the coming years, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) measurements can dramatically improve our understanding of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) and the role of feedback processes on galaxy formation, allowing us to calibrate important astrophysical…

Future ground-based CMB experiments will generate competitive large-scale structure datasets by precisely characterizing CMB secondary anisotropies over a large fraction of the sky. We describe a method for constraining the growth rate of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 David Alonso , Thibaut Louis , Philip Bull , Pedro G. Ferreira

We propose a cross-internal linear combination (cross-ILC) approach to measure the small-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies robustly against the contamination from astrophysical signals. In particular, we focus on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Srinivasan Raghunathan , Yuuki Omori