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Study of the primary anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) can be used to determine the cosmological parameters to a very high precision. The power spectrum of the secondary CMB anisotropies due to the thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Subhabrata Majumdar

(Abridged) The hot gas in the IGM produces anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) through the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The SZ effect is a powerful probe of large-scale structure in the universe and must be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 A. Refregier , E. Komatsu , D. N. Spergel , U. -L. Pen

The relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect offers a method, independent of X-ray, for measuring the temperature of the intracluster medium (ICM) in the hottest systems. Here, using N-body/hydrodynamic simulations of three galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Scott T. Kay , Leila C. Powell , Andrew R. Liddle , Peter A. Thomas

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect is a small spectral distortion of the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. This slight distortion is described by the Bose-Einstein (mu-type) distribution with non-zero chemical…

General Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Anatoliy I Fisenko , Vladimir F Lemberg

This Letter explores influences of intracluster magnetic fields ($\gsim 1\mu$G) submerged in the hot electron gas on classic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) and thermal bremsstrahlung in X-ray emissions. As the Larmor frequency is much…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jian Hu , Yu-Qing Lou

The fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) intensity due to the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect are the sum of a thermal and a kinetic contribution. Separating the two components to measure the peculiar velocity of galaxy…

We discuss the possibility to constrain the relation between redshift and temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using multifrequency Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) observations. We have simulated a catalog of clusters of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cathy Horellou , Martin Nord , Daniel Johansson , Anna Levy

Measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (S-Z) effect towards distant clusters of galaxies can be used to determine the Hubble constant and the radial component of cluster peculiar velocities. Determination of the cluster peculiar velocity…

While third-generation CMB experiments have allowed to release the first maps of Compton-$y$ distortion due to thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect, next-generation CMB experiments should allow us to map also the electron gas temperature,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Mathieu Remazeilles

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) has been observed toward six massive galaxy clusters, at redshifts 0.091 \leq z \leq 0.322 in the 86-102 GHz band with the Y. T. Lee Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy (AMiBA). We modify an…

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect towards clusters of galaxies has become a standard probe of cosmology. It is caused by the scattering of photons from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the hot cluster electron gas. In a similar manner,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-03 Sandeep Kumar Acharya , Jens Chluba

We study the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) distortion of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) from extensive circumgalactic gas (CGM) in massive galactic halos. Recent observations have shown that galactic halos contain a large amount…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Priyanka Singh , Biman B. Nath , Subhabrata Majumdar , Joseph Silk

We present 10" to 18" images of four massive clusters of galaxies through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE). These measurements, made at 90~GHz with the MUSTANG receiver on the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), reveal pressure sub-structure to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. M. Korngut , S. R. Dicker , E. D. Reese , B. S. Mason , M. J. Devlin , T. Mroczkowski , C. L. Sarazin , M. Sun , J. Sievers

The power spectrum of unresolved thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) clusters is extremely sensitive to the amplitude of the matter fluctuations. This paper present an analysis of the tSZ power spectrum using temperature power spectra of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 George Efstathiou , Fiona McCarthy

[Abridged] Inverse Compton scattering of CMB fluctuations off cosmic electron plasma generates a polarization of the associated Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. This signal has been studied so far mostly in the non-relativistic regime and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 M. S. Emritte , S. Colafrancesco , P. Marchegiani

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect, the inverse-Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off high-energy electrons, is a powerful probe of hot, ionized gas in the Universe. It is often measured via…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Kristen M. Surrao , Shivam Pandey , J. Colin Hill , Eric J. Baxter

Compton scattering of the cosmic microwave background radiation by electrons in the hot gas in clusters of galaxies - the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect - has long been recognized as a uniquely important feature, rich in cosmological and…

Extensive recent work on the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (S-Z) effect reflects major progress in observational capabilities of interferometric arrays, the improved quality of multi-frequency measurements with upcoming ground-based and stratospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoel Rephaeli

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

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