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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…

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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

The secondary anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide a wealth of astrophysical and cosmological information. Pairing measurements of the CMB temperature map obtained by DR5 of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Noah Sailer , Simone Ferraro

We detect the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect with a statistical significance of $4.2 \sigma$ by combining a cluster catalogue derived from the first year data of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) with CMB temperature maps from the…

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) serves as a backlight to large-scale structure during the epoch of reionization, where Thomson scattering gives rise to temperature anisotropies on small angular scales from the kinetic Sunyaev…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-21 Selim C. Hotinli , Matthew C. Johnson

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 propose a new analysis of small scale CMB data by introducing the cosmological dependency of the foreground signals, focusing first on the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) power spectrum, derived from the halo model. We analyse the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Marian Douspis , Laura Salvati , Adélie Gorce , Nabila Aghanim

High-resolution, low-noise observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) planned for the near-future will enable new cosmological probes based on re-scattered CMB photons -- the secondary CMB. At the same time, enormous galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Dagoberto Contreras , Matthew C. Johnson , James B. Mertens

We present constraints on the reionization optical depth, $\tau$, obtained using several independent methods. First, we perform a non-parametric reconstruction of the reionization history, using Lyman-$\alpha$ constraints on the evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Willem Elbers

Recent measurements from the CMB and from high-redshift galaxy observations have placed rough constraints on the midpoint and duration of the Epoch of Reionization. Detailed measurements of the ionization history remain elusive, although…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 Joëlle-Marie Bégin , Adrian Liu , Adélie Gorce

Kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ) tomography provides a powerful probe of the radial velocity field of matter in the Universe. By cross-correlating a high resolution CMB experiment like CMB S4 and a galaxy survey like DESI or LSST, one can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Moritz Münchmeyer , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Simone Ferraro , Matthew C. Johnson , Kendrick M. Smith

The rotational kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (rkSZ) signal, imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the gaseous halos (spinning "atmospheres") of foreground galaxies, would be a novel probe of galaxy formation. Although the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , Zoltán Haiman

The cosmic velocity field is an unbiased probe of the total matter distribution but is challenging to measure directly at intermediate and high redshifts. The large-scale velocity field imprints a signal in the cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Alex Laguë , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Kendrick M. Smith , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan

The accelerated expansion of the Universe is well established by geometric probes, yet its physical origin remains poorly understood. Most constraints on dark energy arise from background observables -- supernovae, baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Julius Adolff , Selim Hotinli , Neal Dalal

Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies on large angular scales have uncovered a number of anomalous features of marginal statistical significance, such as a hemispherical power asymmetry, lack of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Juan I. Cayuso , Matthew C. Johnson

Cosmic baryon evolution during the Cosmic Dawn and Reionization results in redshifted 21-cm spectral distortions in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). These encode information about the nature and timing of first sources over redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-04 Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Ravi Subrahmanyan , N Udaya Shankar , Jens Chluba

We forecast neutrino mass constraints using Stage IV CMB and large-scale structure surveys, focusing on kSZ tomography as an independent probe of the growth of cosmic structure. We take into account several realistic factors, including the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 Avery J. Tishue , Selim C. Hotinli , Peter Adshead , Ely D. Kovetz , Mathew S. Madhavacheril

Using the novel semi-numerical code for reionization AMBER, we model the patchy kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect by directly specifying the reionization history with the redshift midpoint $z_\mathrm{mid}$, duration…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Nianyi Chen , Hy Trac , Suvodip Mukherjee , Renyue Cen

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect results from Thomson scattering by coherent flows in the reionized intergalactic medium. We present new results based on ray-tracing a 10 Gpc scale simulation at 2-3 Mpc scale resolution to create…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-24 Marcelo A. Alvarez

The improving sensitivity of measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect opens a new window into the thermodynamic properties of the baryons in halos. We propose a methodology to constrain these thermodynamic properties by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Nicholas Battaglia , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan , David Spergel