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The intensity of the cosmic microwave background radiation in the fields of clusters of galaxies is modified by inverse Compton scattering in the hot intracluster gas - the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The effect is expected to be most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrew W. Blain

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Asantha Cooray , Wayne Hu , Max Tegmark

Use of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect as a precise cosmological probe necessitates a realistic assessment of all possible contributions to Comptonization of the cosmic microwave background in clusters of galaxies. We have calculated the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Meir Shimon , Yoel Rephaeli

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a promising tool for detecting the presence of hot gas out to the galaxy cluster peripheries. We developed a spectral imaging algorithm dedicated to the SZ observations of nearby galaxy clusters with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-26 H. Bourdin , P. Mazzotta , E. Rasia

The hot gas in clusters of galaxies creates a distinctive spectral distortion in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect. To first order, the shape of the spectral distortion is fixed, but relativistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Adam D. Hincks , Ricardo Génova-Santos , Gemma Luzzi , Elia Stefano Battistelli

The PLANCK-mission is the most sensitive all-sky submillimetric mission currently being planned and prepared. Special emphasis is given to the observation of clusters of galaxies by their thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-07 Bjoern Malte Schaefer , Matthias Bartelmann

Stacking cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps around known galaxy clusters and groups provides a powerful probe of the distribution of hot gas in these systems via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. A stacking analysis allows one to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Vinu Vikram , Adam Lidz , Bhuvnesh Jain

Using large numbers of simulations of the microwave sky, incorporating the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect due to clusters, we investigate the statistics of the power spectrum at microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Michael W. Peel , Richard A. Battye , Scott T. Kay

In order to assess the potential of future microwave anisotropy space experiments for detecting clusters by their Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) thermal effect, we have simulated maps of the large scale distribution of their Compton parameter $y$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Aghanim , A. De Luca , F. R. Bouchet , G. Gispert , J. L. Puget

The Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a global distortion of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) spectrum as a result of its interaction with a hot electron plasma in the intracluster medium of large structures gravitationally viralized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Alexander Bonilla , Jairo E. Castillo

Cosmography provides a direct method to map the expansion history of the Universe in a model-independent way. Recently, different kinds of observations have been used in cosmographic analyses, such as SNe Ia and gamma ray bursts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-06 R. F. L. Holanda , J. S. Alcaniz , J. C. Carvalho

The hot gas in clusters of galaxies creates a distinctive spectral distortion in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The spectral signature of the SZ can be used to measure the CMB temperature at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Gemma Luzzi , Emanuele D'Angelo , Hervé Bourdin , Federico De Luca , Pasquale Mazzotta , Filippo Oppizzi , Gianluca Polenta

The cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) is providing important clues into the evolution of the early universe. In this Science Perspective, Joy and Carlstrom discuss one feature of the CMBR, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, which can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marshall Joy , John E. Carlstrom

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

We report the first robust evidence for the rotational kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (rkSZ) effect, produced by the Thomson scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off rotating intracluster gas. By combining CMB intensity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Samuel Goldstein , J. Colin Hill

The latest Planck results on the power spectrum of the Compton-$y$ parameter are the most accurate probe of the thermal Sunyaev Zeldovich (tSZ) effect caused by resolved and un-resolved clusters of galaxies. On large angular scales, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-14 Boris Bolliet

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) provides a unique way to map the large-scale structure of the universe as traced by massive clusters of galaxies. As a spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background, the SZE is insensitive to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 John E. Carlstrom , Gilbert P. Holder , Erik D. Reese

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a window into the astrophysical processes of galaxy clusters, and relativistic corrections (the "rSZ") promise to provide a global census of the gas feedback within clusters. Upcoming wide-field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 L. Kuhn , Z. Li , William R. Coulton

The interaction of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with the hot gas in clusters of galaxies, the so-called Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, is a very useful tool that allows us to determine the physical conditions in such clusters and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 M. Lopez-Corredoira , C. M. Gutierrez , R. T. Genova-Santos

Studying galaxy clusters through their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) imprint on the Cosmic Microwave Background has many important advantages. The total SZ signal is an accurate and precise tracer of the total pressure in the intra-cluster medium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-19 Keith Grainge , Stefano Borgani , Sergio Colafrancesco , Chiara Ferrari , Anna Scaife , Paolo Marchegiani , S. Emritte , J. Weller