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Measuring the Mach number of the Universe via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

We introduce a new statistic to measure more accurately the cosmic sound speed of clusters of galaxies at different redshifts. This statistic is evaluated by cross-correlating cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations caused by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Atrio--Barandela , A. Kashlinsky , J. P. Mücket

Improving Constraints on Fundamental Physics Parameters with the Clustering of Sunyaev-Zeldovich Selected Galaxy Clusters

Upcoming millimeter experiments that probe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) will observe tens of thousands of galaxy clusters through the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. tSZ selected clusters are powerful probes of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Dylan Cromer , Nicholas Battaglia , Mathew S. Madhavacheril

The cosmic microwave background: observing directly the early universe

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a relict of the early universe. Its perfect 2.725K blackbody spectrum demonstrates that the universe underwent a hot, ionized early phase; its anisotropy (about 80 \mu K rms) provides strong evidence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Paolo de Bernardis , Silvia Masi

Detection of a CMB decrement towards a cluster of mJy radiosources

We present the results of radio, optical and near-infrared observations of the field of TOC J0233.3+3021, a cluster of milliJansky radiosources from the TexOx Cluster survey. In an observation of this field with the Ryle Telescope (RT) at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Garret Cotter , Helen J. Buttery , Steve Rawlings , Steve Croft , Gary J. Hill , Pamela Gay , Rhiju Das , Niv Drory , Keith Grainge , William F. Grainger , Michael E. Jones , G. G. Pooley , Richard Saunders

Evidence for an Extended SZ Effect in WMAP Data

We have cross-correlated the WMAP data with several surveys of extragalactic sources and find evidence for temperature decrements associated with galaxy clusters and groups detected in the APM Galaxy Survey survey and the ACO catalogue. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Myers , T. Shanks , P. J. Outram , W. J. Frith , A. W. Wolfendale

A Measurement of CMB Cluster Lensing with SPT and DES Year 1 Data

Clusters of galaxies gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, resulting in a distinct imprint in the CMB on arcminute scales. Measurement of this effect offers a promising way to constrain the masses of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 E. J. Baxter , S. Raghunathan , T. M. Crawford , P. Fosalba , Z. Hou , G. P. Holder , Y. Omori , S. Patil , E. Rozo , T. M. C. Abbott , J. Annis , K. Aylor , A. Benoit-Lévy , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , L. Bleem , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , A. T. Crites , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. B. D'Andrea , C. Davis , T. de Haan , S. Desai , M. A. Dobbs , S. Dodelson , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Estrada , W. B. Everett , A. Fausti Neto , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. M. George , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , W. G. Hartley , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , L. Knox , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , T. S. Li , M. Lima , D. Luong-Van , A. Manzotti , M. March , D. P. Marrone , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , B. Nord , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Padin , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , D. Rapetti , C. L. Reichardt , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , J. E. Ruhl , E. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , J. T. Sayre , V. Scarpine , K. K. Schaffer , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Shirokoff , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Z. Staniszewski , A. Stark , K. Story , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. R. Walker , R. Williamson , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

Galaxy Clusters at z>=1: Gas Constraints from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array

We present gas constraints from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect measurements in a sample of eleven X-ray and infrared (IR) selected galaxy clusters at z >=1, using data from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array (SZA). The cylindrically integrated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. L. Culverhouse , M. Bonamente , E. Bulbul , J. E. Carlstrom , M. B. Gralla , C. Greer , N. Hasler , D. Hawkins , R. Hennessy , N. N. Jetha , M. Joy , J. W. Lamb , E. M. Leitch , D. P. Marrone , A. Miller , T. Mroczkowski , S. Muchovej , C. Pryke , M. Sharp , D. Woody , S. Andreon , B. Maughan , S. A. Stanford

Does the Correlation between 2MRS Galaxies and the CMB Indicate an Unmodeled CMB Foreground?

We revisit the claimed detection of a new cosmic microwave background (CMB) foreground based on the correlation between low-redshift 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) galaxies and CMB temperature maps from the Planck and WMAP missions. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Graeme E. Addison

Extragalactic Foregrounds of the Cosmic Microwave Background: Prospects for the MAP Mission

(Abridged) While the major contribution to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies are the sought-after primordial fluctuations produced at the surface of last scattering, other effects produce secondary fluctuations at lower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Refregier , D. N. Spergel , T. Herbig

Temperature Anisotropy of the CMBR and the Non-zero Cosmological Constant

We analyze the effect of a spherically symmetric clump on the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation temperature in the framework of the standard model of cosmology with a non-zero cosmological constant $\Lambda$ and we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-26 Jan Schee , Evariste N. Boj

Can the Local Supercluster explain the low CMB multipoles?

We show that the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect caused by hot electrons in the Local Supercluster (LSC) can explain the abnormal quadrupole and octopole of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) that were measured by WMAP and COBE. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Raul Abramo , L. Sodre

Anomalies in the low CMB multipoles and extended foregrounds

We discuss how an extended foreground of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can account for the anomalies in the low multipoles of the CMB anisotropies. The distortion needed to account for the anomalies is consistent with a cold spot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Raul Abramo , Laerte Sodre , Carlos Alexandre Wuensche

Observations of the Corona Borealis supercluster with the superextended Very Small Array: further constraints on the nature of the non-Gaussian CMB cold spot

We present interferometric imaging at 33 GHz, with the new superextended configuration of the Very Small Array (VSA), of a very deep decrement in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature. This decrement is located in the direction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ricardo Genova-Santos , Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin , Rafael Rebolo , Richard A. Battye , Francisco Blanco , Rod D. Davies , Richard J. Davis , Thomas Franzen , Keith Grainge , Michael P. Hobson , Anthony Lasenby , Carmen P. Padilla-Torres , Guy G. Pooley , Richard D. E. Saunders , Anna Scaife , Paul F. Scott , David Titterington , Marco Tucci , Robert A. Watson

Measuring the Hubble constant from the cooling of the CMB monopole

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) monopole temperature evolves with the inverse of the cosmological scale factor, independent of many cosmological assumptions. With sufficient sensitivity, real-time cosmological observations could thus…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-14 Maximilian H. Abitbol , J. Colin Hill , Jens Chluba

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in a sample of 31 clusters - a comparison between the X-ray predicted and WMAP observed CMB temperature decrement

The WMAP Q, V, and W band radial profiles of temperature deviation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) were constructed for a sample of 31 randomly selected nearby clusters of galaxies in directions of Galactic latitude $|b| >$ 30$^o$.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard Lieu , Jonathan P. D. Mittaz , Shuang-Nan Zhang

On the tension between Large Scale Structures and Cosmic Microwave Background

Recent years have brought strong observational evidences for the standard LCDM cosmological model. Cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy and large scale structure (LSS) probes do not favour any extensions of the standard model.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-18 Marian Douspis , Laura Salvati , Nabila Aghanim

Constraints from the CMB temperature and other common observational data-sets on variable dark energy density models

The thermodynamic and dynamical properties of a variable dark energy model with density scaling as rho_x \propto (1+z)^m, z being the redshift, are discussed following the outline of Jetzer et al. This kind of models are proven to lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-08 Philippe Jetzer , Crescenzo Tortora

X-ray Properties of the First SZE-selected Galaxy Cluster Sample from the South Pole Telescope

We present results of X-ray observations of a sample of 15 clusters selected via their imprint on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. These clusters are a subset of the first SZ-selected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-06 K. Andersson , B. A. Benson , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , B. Armstrong , M. Bautz , L. E. Bleem , M. Brodwin , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , S. Desai , M. A. Dobbs , J. P. Dudley , R. J. Foley , W. R. Forman , G. Garmire , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , N. W. Halverson , F. W. High , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , C. Jones , M. Joy , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , S. S. Murray , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , J. Ruel , J. E. Ruhl , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , J. Song , H. G. Spieler , B. Stalder , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , C. W. Stubbs , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , R. Williamson , Y. Yang , O. Zahn

Microwave polarization in the direction of galaxy clusters induced by the CMB quadrupole anisotropy

Electron scattering induces a polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal measured in the direction of a galaxy cluster due to the presence of a quadrupole component in the CMB temperature distribution. Measuring the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Y. Sazonov , R. A. Sunyaev

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background $B$-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales from 2 years of POLARBEAR Data

We report an improved measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment at 150 GHz. By adding new data collected during the second season of observations (2013-2014) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 The POLARBEAR Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , M. Aguilar , Y. Akiba , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , F. Bianchini , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , A. Ducout , R. Dünner , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , S. M. Feeney , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , A. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , T. Hamada , G. Hall , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , C. Hill , L. Howe , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , A. Kusaka , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Minami , J. Montgomery , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , H. Paar , J. Peloton , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , G. Puglisi , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , Y. Segawa , B. D. Sherwin , M. Silva-Feaver , P. Siritanasak , N. Stebor , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , T. Tomaru , C. Tucker , N. Whitehorn , A. Zahn