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Measurements of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (hereafter SZ) distorsion of the cosmic microwave background can give interesting physical informations on clusters of galaxies, provided that the electronic temperature of the gas is known. Previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Pointecouteau , M. Giard , D. Barret

The dispersion measures (${\rm DMs}$) from fast radio bursts (FRBs) and the thermal Sunyaev--Zeldovich (tSZ) effect probe the free-electron density and pressure, respectively, in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and the intervening galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Ryuichi Takahashi , Kunihito Ioka , Masato Shirasaki , Ken Osato

We demonstrate that the recent measurements of the angular diameter distance of 38 cluster of galaxies using Chandra X-ray data and radio observations from the OVRO and BIMA interferometric arrays place new and independent constraints on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Francesco De Bernardis , Elena Giusarma , Alessandro Melchiorri

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

We have imaged the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signals at 140 and 270 GHz towards ten galaxy clusters with Bolocam and AzTEC/ASTE. We also used Planck data to constrain the signal at large angular scales, Herschel-SPIRE images to…

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

This study shows one important effect of preexistent cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations on the determination of the Hubble constant through Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect of clusters of galaxies, especially when coupled with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Renyue Cen

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…

We critically analyze the measurement of galaxy cluster gas masses, which is central to cosmological studies that rely on the galaxy cluster gas mass fraction. Using synthetic observations of numerically simulated clusters viewed through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric J. Hallman , Patrick M. Motl , Jack O. Burns , Michael L. Norman

X-ray emission and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich distortion to the Cosmic Microwave Background are two important handles on the gas content of the Universe. The cross-correlation between these effects eliminates noise bias and reduces…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Victoria Lakey , Kevin Huffenberger

Scaling relations among galaxy cluster observables, which will become available in large future samples of galaxy clusters, could be used to constrain not only cluster structure, but also cosmology. We study the utility of this approach,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Cien Shang , Zoltan Haiman , Licia Verde

Future high-resolution microwave background measurements hold the promise of detecting galaxy clusters throughout our Hubble volume through their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signature, down to a given limiting flux. The number density of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew R. Francis , Rachel Bean , Arthur Kosowsky

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a powerful probe of the evolution of structures in the universe, and is thus highly sensitive to cosmological parameters $\sigma_8$ and $\Omega_m$, though its power is hampered by the current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 G. Hurier , F. Lacasa

The relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect can be used to measure intracluster gas temperatures independently of X-ray spectroscopy. Here, we use the large-volume FLAMINGO simulation suite to determine whether SZ $y$-weighted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Scott T. Kay , Joey Braspenning , Jens Chluba , John C. Helly , Roi Kugel , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect of a cluster of galaxies is usually measured after background radio sources are removed from the cluster field. Gravitational lensing by the cluster potential leads to a systematic deficit in the residual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Abraham Loeb , Alexandre Refregier

The thermal properties of hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters are usually compared to observations by relying on the emission-weighted temperature T_ew, instead of on the spectroscopic X-ray temperature T_spec, which is obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Rasia , P. Mazzotta , S. Borgani , L. Moscardini , K. Dolag , G. Tormen , A. Diaferio , G. Murante

We present observations using the Small Array of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI; 14-18 GHz) of four Abell and three MACS clusters spanning 0.171-0.686 in redshift. We detect Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signals in five of these without…

Current and upcoming wide-field surveys for weak gravitational lensing and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect will generate mass-selected catalogues of dark matter halos with internal or followup photometric redshift information. The angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Asantha Cooray , Wayne Hu , Dragan Huterer , Michael Joffre

We perform a uniform, systematic analysis of a sample of 38 X-ray galaxy clusters with three different Chandra calibrations. The temperatures change systematically between calibrations. Cluster temperatures change on average by roughly ~6%…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Erik D. Reese , Hajime Kawahara , Tetsu Kitayama , Naomi Ota , Shin Sasaki , Yasushi Suto

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (hereafter SZ) effect is a promising tool to derive the gas temperature of galaxy clusters. The approximation of a spherically symmetric gas distribution is usually used to determine the temperature structure of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. A. Prokhorov , Y. Dubois , S. Nagataki , T. Akahori , K. Yoshikawa