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Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clusters in the 2500 square-degree SPT-SZ Survey

(abridged) We present cosmological constraints obtained from galaxy clusters identified by their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect signature in the 2500 square degree South Pole Telescope Sunyaev Zel'dovich survey. We consider the 377 cluster…

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Planck Intermediate Results. V. Pressure profiles of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

Taking advantage of the all-sky coverage and broad frequency range of the Planck satellite, we study the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) and pressure profiles of 62 nearby massive clusters detected at high significance in the 14-month nominal…

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The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Abell 370

We present interferometric measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect towards the galaxy cluster Abell 370. These measurements, which directly probe the pressure of the cluster's gas, show the gas distribution to be strongly…

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Weighing the Giants IV: Cosmology and Neutrino Mass

We employ robust weak gravitational lensing measurements to improve cosmological constraints from measurements of the galaxy cluster mass function and its evolution, using X-ray selected clusters detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. Our…

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Scaling Relations and Overabundance of Massive Clusters at z>~1 from Weak-Lensing Studies with HST

We present weak gravitational lensing analysis of 22 high-redshift (z >~1) clusters based on Hubble Space Telescope images. Most clusters in our sample provide significant lensing signals and are well detected in their reconstructed…

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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…

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Spectral imaging of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in X-COP galaxy clusters: method and validation

The imaging of galaxy clusters through the Sunyaev--Zel'dovich effect is a valuable tool to probe the thermal pressure of the intra-cluster gas, especially in the outermost regions where X-ray observations suffer from photon statistics. For…

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Weak Lensing Analysis of SPT selected Galaxy Clusters using Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

We present weak lensing (WL) mass constraints for a sample of massive galaxy clusters detected by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE). We use $griz$ imaging data obtained from the Science Verification (SV)…

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Clustering of DESI galaxies split by thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect is associated with galaxy clusters - extremely large and dense structures tracing the dark matter with a higher bias than isolated galaxies. We propose to use the tSZ data to separate galaxies from…

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Joint analysis of X-ray and Sunyaev Zel'dovich observations of galaxy clusters using an analytic model of the intra-cluster medium

We perform a joint analysis of X-ray and Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect data using an analytic model that describes the gas properties of galaxy clusters. The joint analysis allows the measurement of the cluster gas mass fraction profile…

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Cluster mass estimation from lens magnification

The surface mass density of a cluster of galaxies, and thus its total mass, can be estimated from its lens magnification. The magnification can be determined from the variation in number counts of its background galaxies. In the weak…

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Probing Hot Gas in Galaxy Groups through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

We investigate the potential of exploiting the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE) to study the properties of hot gas in galaxy groups. It is shown that, with upcoming SZE surveys, one can stack SZE maps around galaxy groups of similar halo…

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Constraints on the Neutrino Mass from SZ Surveys

Statistical measures of galaxy clusters are sensitive to neutrino masses in the sub-eV range. We explore the possibility of using cluster number counts from the ongoing PLANCK/SZ and future cosmic-variance-limited surveys to constrain…

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Constraints from thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts and power spectrum combined with CMB

Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect is one of the recent probes of cosmology and large scale structures. We update constraints on cosmological parameters from galaxy clusters observed by the Planck satellite in a first attempt to combine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Laura Salvati , Marian Douspis , Nabila Aghanim

Probing the cluster pressure profile with thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect and weak lensing cross-correlation

We confront the universal pressure profile (UPP) proposed by~\citet{Arnaud10} with the recent measurement of the cross-correlation function of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect from Planck and weak gravitational lensing measurement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Yin-Zhe Ma , Yan Gong , Tilman Troster , Ludovic Van Waerbeke

Gas contents of galaxy groups from thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects

A matched filter technique is applied to the Planck all-sky Compton y-parameter map to measure the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect produced by galaxy groups of different halo masses selected from large redshift surveys in the low-z…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Seunghwan Lim , Houjun Mo , Ran Li , Yue Liu , Yin-Zhe Ma , Huiyuan Wang , Xiaohu Yang

Detection of thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the circumgalactic medium of low-mass galaxies -- a surprising pattern in self-similarity and baryon sufficiency

We report on the measurement of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) Effect in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of 641,923 galaxies with $\rm M_\star$=$\rm 10^{9.8-11.3}M_\odot$ at $z<$0.5, pushing the exploration of tSZ Effect to lower-mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Sanskriti Das , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Smita Mathur

Optical Redshift and Richness Estimates for Galaxy Clusters Selected with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from 2008 South Pole Telescope Observations

We present redshifts and optical richness properties of 21 galaxy clusters uniformly selected by their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signature. These clusters, plus an additional, unconfirmed candidate, were detected in a 178 square-degree area…

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Detection of pairwise kSZ effect with DESI galaxy clusters and Planck

We report a $5\sigma$ detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, combining galaxy clusters in DESI imaging surveys and the Planck temperature maps. The detection is facilitated by both improvements in the data and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-16 Ziyang Chen , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Yi Zheng