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We study the prospects for extracting detailed statistical properties of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect associated with large scale structure using upcoming multifrequency CMB experiments. The greatest obstacle to detecting the…

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We discuss the secondary cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy due to kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect from ionized bubbles around individual quasars prior to the reionization of the Universe. The bubbles create local…

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Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments will measure temperature fluctuations on small angular scales with unprecedented precision, enabling improved measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. This secondary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Neha Anil Kumar , Mesut Çalışkan , Selim C. Hotinli , Marc Kamionkowski , Simone Ferraro , Kendrick Smith

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is a spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) resulting from inverse Compton scattering of CMB photons with electrons in the medium of galaxy clusters. The spectrum of the tSZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-18 David Zegeye , Thomas Crawford , Wayne Hu

We develop an optimization-based maximum likelihood approach to analyze the cross-correlation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and large-scale structure induced by the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect. Our main goal is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-01 Yurii Kvasiuk , Moritz Münchmeyer

Compton scattering of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from hot ionized gas produces a range of effects, and the leading order effects are the kinetic and thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ and tSZ) effects. In the near future, CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 William R. Coulton , Atsuhisa Ota , Alexander van Engelen

The kSZ effect has recently emerged as a powerful probe for precision cosmology through its ability to reconstruct the large-scale velocity field. In particular, the kSZ-reconstructed velocity-galaxy cross-correlation is sensitive to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Carmen Embil Villagra , Fiona McCarthy , Antón Baleato Lizancos , Blake D. Sherwin , Anthony Challinor

We show that, in the context of patchy reionisation, an accurate description of the angular power spectrum of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect is not possible with simple scaling relations between the amplitude of the spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Adélie Gorce , Stéphane Ilić , Marian Douspis , Dominique Aubert , Mathieu Langer

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 cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons that scatter off free electrons in the large-scale structure induce a linear polarization pattern proportional to the remote CMB temperature quadrupole observed in the electrons' rest frame. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Selim C. Hotinli , Gilbert P. Holder , Matthew C. Johnson , Marc Kamionkowski

Due to cosmic variance we cannot learn any more about large-scale inhomogeneities from the primary cosmic microwave background (CMB) alone. More information on large scales is essential for resolving large angular scale anomalies in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Alexandra Terrana , Mary-Jean Harris , Matthew C. Johnson

In the present work, we propose a new method aiming at extracting the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (KSZ) temperature fluctuations embedded in the primary anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We base our study on simulated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Forni , N. Aghanim

Patchy reionization leaves a number of imprints on the small-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations, the largest of which is the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ), the Doppler shift of CMB photons scattering off…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Simone Ferraro , Kendrick M. Smith

We introduce a new statistical technique for extracting the inhomogeneous reionization signal from future high-sensitivity measurements of the cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization fields. If reionization is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-10 Cora Dvorkin , Kendrick M. Smith

The key to understand the nature of dark energy relies in our ability to probe the distant Universe. In this framework, the recent detection of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect signature in the cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 M. Roncarelli , M. Baldi , F. Villaescusa-Navarro

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

We examine the constraints on the epoch of reionization (redshift z_r) set by recent WMAP-3 observations of tau_e = 0.09 +/- 0.03, the electron-scattering optical depth of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), combined with models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Shull , Aparna Venkatesan

The kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) effect is a potentially powerful probe to the missing baryons. However, the kSZ signal is overwhelmed by various contaminations and the cosmological application is hampered by loss of redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 Jiawei Shao , Pengjie Zhang , Weipeng Lin , Yipeng Jing , Jun Pan

The Universe's Epoch of Reionization (EoR) can be studied using a number of observational probes that provide complementary or corroborating information. Each of these probes suffers from its own systematic and statistical uncertainties. It…

We apply two machine learning methods, a CNN deep-leaning model and a gradient-boosting decision tree, to estimate individual cluster optical depths from observed properties derived from multiple complementary datasets. The models are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Yulin Gong , Rachel Bean