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We carry out a thermal energy census of hot baryons at $z < 1$, by cross-correlating the \emph{Planck} MILCA y-map with 0.8 million clusters/groups selected from the Yang et.al (2021) catalog. The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-27 Ziyang Chen , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang

We introduce the Marenostrum-MultiDark SImulations of galaxy Clusters (MUSIC) Dataset, one of the largest sample of hydrodynamically simulated galaxy clusters with more than 500 clusters and 2000 groups. The objects have been selected from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Federico Sembolini , Gustavo Yepes , Marco De Petris , Stefan Gottloeber , Luca Lamagna , Barbara Comis

Observations of the X-ray band wavelength reveal an evident ellipticity of many galaxy clusters atmospheres. The modeling of the intracluster gas with an ellipsoidal $\beta$-model leads to different estimates for the total gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Ph. Jetzer , P. Koch , R. Piffaretti , D. Puy , S. Schindler

Several galaxy clusters host X-ray cavities, often filled with relativistic electrons emitting in the radio band. In the cluster MS 0735.6+7421 the cavities have been detected through the Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, but it has not been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 P. Marchegiani

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

We calculate the constraints on dark energy and cosmic modifications to gravity achievable with upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys sensitive to the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effects. The analysis focuses on using the mean…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Eva-Maria Mueller , Francesco de Bernardis , Rachel Bean , Michael Niemack

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich thermal (tSZ) and kinetic (kSZ) effects can be used to constrain the thermodynamic properties of pressure and density, respectively, of galaxies and their surrounding regions. As SZ observations continue to improve, it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-21 Emily Moser , Nicholas Battaglia , Stefania Amodeo

At high angular frequencies the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect constitutes the dominant signal in the CMB sky. The tSZ effect is caused by large scale pressure fluctuations in the baryonic distribution in the Universe so its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-11 Dipak Munshi , Joseph Smidt , Shahab Joudaki , Peter Coles

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) provides a powerful tool for cosmological studies. Through recent advances in instrumentation and observational techniques it is now possible to obtain high quality measurements of the effect toward…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. E. Carlstrom , M. Joy , L. Grego , G. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. LaRoque , J. J. Mohr , E. D. Reese

We study the spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background radiation induced by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in clusters of galaxies when the target electrons have a modified Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution with a high-energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Blasi , A. V. Olinto , A. Stebbins

We consider the prospects for measuring the pairwise kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal from galaxy clusters discovered in large photometric surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We project that the DES cluster sample will, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ryan Keisler , Fabian Schmidt

The determination of the morphology of galaxy clusters has important repercussion on their cosmological and astrophysical studies. In this paper we address the morphological characterisation of synthetic maps of the Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Giammarco Cialone , Marco De Petris , Federico Sembolini , Gustavo Yepes , Anna Silvia Baldi , Elena Rasia

Having discovered a dimension mistake in two key formulas of the Classical Nucleation Theory (CNT) but wishing to remain in the style of this theory, we propose to approach nucleation on the basis of the Zeldovich unsteady rate formula,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-12 Laurent-Charles Valdès , Frédéric Affouard

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

Future observations of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect promise ever improving measurements in terms of both sensitivity and angular resolution. As such, it is increasingly relevant to model `higher-order' contributions to the SZ effect.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-28 Elizabeth Lee , Jens Chluba

Galaxy cluster surveys based on the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE) mapping are expected from ongoing experiments. Such surveys are anticipated to provide a significant amount of information relevant to cosmology from the number counts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Pierre Delsart , Domingos Barbosa , Alain Blanchard

We propose a new method to model cluster scaling relations in modified gravity. Using a suite of non-radiative hydrodynamical simulations, we show that the scaling relations of cumulative gas quantities, such as the Sunyaev Zel'dovich…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Jian-hua He , Baojiu Li

We present a multifrequency and multi-instrument methodology to study the physical properties of galaxy clusters and cosmic filaments using cosmic microwave background observations. Our approach enables simultaneous measurement of both the…

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

By using exclusively the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and X-ray surface brightness data from 25 galaxy clusters in the redshift range 0.023< z < 0.784 we access cosmic acceleration employing a kinematic description. Such result is fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 R. F. L. Holanda , J. A. S. Lima , J. V. Cunha