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The kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect offers an indirect way to reconstruct large-scale cosmic velocities, by correlating high-resolution CMB temperature maps with galaxy surveys. In this work, we present the first three-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Selim C. Hotinli , Kendrick M. Smith , Simone Ferraro

We present a new method for measuring the $E_G$ statistic that combines two CMB secondaries -- the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect and CMB lensing -- for the first time to probe gravity on linear scales. The $E_G$ statistic is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Raagini Patki , Nicholas Battaglia , Rachel Bean

With the advent of current and future high-resolution CMB experiments, the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect has become a unique observational probe of the distribution of baryons and velocities in the Universe. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-14 Raagini Patki , Nicholas Battaglia , J. Colin Hill

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-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect is a secondary cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy induced by the scattering of CMB photons off intervening electrons. Through cross-correlations with tracers of large-scale structure,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Gabriela Sato-Polito , José Luis Bernal , Kimberly K. Boddy , Marc Kamionkowski

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

Reconstructing the galaxy peculiar velocity field from the distribution of large-scale structure plays an important role in cosmology. On one hand, it gives us an insight into structure formation and gravity; on the other, it allows us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Simone Ferraro , Bernardita Ried Guachalla , Emmanuel Schaan

We develop and test a new statistical method to measure the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. A sample of independently detected clusters is combined with the cosmic flow field predicted from a galaxy redshift survey in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-11 Ming Li , Raul E. Angulo , Simon D. M. White , Jens Jasche

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

Velocity fields can be reconstructed at cosmological scales from their influence on the correlation between the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure. Effects that induce such correlations include the kinetic Sunyaev…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-28 Selim C. Hotinli , Kendrick M. Smith , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Marc Kamionkowski

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

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

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

Cosmic bulk flow--the volume-averaged peculiar velocity of matter--serves as a fundamental test of the Cosmological Principle when probed on gigaparsec (Gpc) scales. Historically, however, measurements of cosmic bulk flow have been limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Suroor Seher Gandhi , Matthew C. Johnson , Jordan Krywonos , Michael J. Hudson

The kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal is a powerful probe of the cosmic baryon distribution. The kSZ signal is proportional to the integrated free electron momentum rather than the electron pressure (which sources the thermal SZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-02 Simone Ferraro , J. Colin Hill , Nick Battaglia , Jia Liu , David N. Spergel

The kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ) and moving lens effects, secondary contributions to the cosmic microwave background (CMB), carry significant cosmological information due to their dependence on the large-scale peculiar velocity field.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Juan Cayuso , Richard Bloch , Selim C. Hotinli , Matthew C. Johnson , Fiona McCarthy

We propose a novel technique to separate the late-time, post-reionization component of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect from the contribution to it from a (poorly understood and probably patchy) reionization history. The kSZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 D. Munshi , I. T. Iliev , K. L. Dixon , P. Coles

We demonstrate that pairwise peculiar velocity correlations for galaxy clusters can be directly reconstructed from the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signature imprinted in the CMB using a machine learning model with a gradient boosting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-17 Yulin Gong , Rachel Bean
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