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In the context of a cosmological study of the bulk flows in the Universe, we present a detailed study of the statistical properties of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. We first compute analytically the correlation function and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , L. Verde , Raul Jimenez , D. N. Spergel

The accelerated expansion of the Universe is well established by geometric probes, yet its physical origin remains poorly understood. Most constraints on dark energy arise from background observables -- supernovae, baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Julius Adolff , Selim Hotinli , Neal Dalal

We perform the first joint analysis of galaxy clustering (GC) and the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect to simultaneously constrain cosmological and astrophysical parameters in this work, utilizing a combination of the Atacama…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Shaohong Li , Yi Zheng

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 kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) effect is a potentially powerful probe to the missing baryons. However, the kSZ signal is overwhelmed by various contaminations and the cosmological application is hampered by loss of redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 Jiawei Shao , Pengjie Zhang , Weipeng Lin , Yipeng Jing , Jun Pan

The pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal from galaxy clusters is a probe of their line-of-sight momenta, and thus a potentially valuable source of cosmological information. In addition to the momenta, the amplitude of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-04 Samuel Flender , Lindsey Bleem , Hal Finkel , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Gilbert Holder

We present and study a new cross-pairwise estimator to extract the kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich (kSZ) signal from galaxy clusters. The existing pairwise kSZ method involves pairing clusters with other clusters and stacking them. In the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-05 Aritra Kumar Gon , Rishi Khatri

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects are produced by the interaction of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons with the ionized and diffuse gas of electrons inside galaxy clusters integrated along the line of sight. The two main effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 G. Hurier

Conventionally, in galaxy surveys, cosmological constraints on the growth and expansion history of the universe have been obtained from the measurements of redshift-space distortions and baryon acoustic oscillations embedded in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-16 Teppei Okumura , Atsushi Taruya

Due to cosmic variance we cannot learn any more about large-scale inhomogeneities from the primary cosmic microwave background (CMB) alone. More information on large scales is essential for resolving large angular scale anomalies in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Alexandra Terrana , Mary-Jean Harris , Matthew C. Johnson

We propose a new analysis of small scale CMB data by introducing the cosmological dependency of the foreground signals, focusing first on the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) power spectrum, derived from the halo model. We analyse the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Marian Douspis , Laura Salvati , Adélie Gorce , Nabila Aghanim

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

We detect the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect with a statistical significance of $4.2 \sigma$ by combining a cluster catalogue derived from the first year data of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) with CMB temperature maps from the…

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from clusters of galaxies should yield a significant signal in cosmic microwave background(CMB) experiments at small angular scales ($\ell \ga 1000$). Experiments with sufficient frequency coverage should…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gilbert P. Holder , John E. Carlstrom

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

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 kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, i.e., the Doppler boost of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons caused by their scattering off free electrons in galaxy clusters and groups with non-zero bulk velocity, is a powerful window…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Boris Bolliet , J. Colin Hill , Simone Ferraro , Aleksandra Kusiak , Alex Krolewski

Recent results of ground-based telescopes, giving high-quality measurements of the CMB temperature power spectrum on small scales motivate the need for an accurate model of foregrounds, which dominate the primary signal at these multipoles.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Adélie Gorce , Marian Douspis , Laura Salvati

The key to understand the nature of dark energy relies in our ability to probe the distant Universe. In this framework, the recent detection of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect signature in the cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 M. Roncarelli , M. Baldi , F. Villaescusa-Navarro

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect will be an important source of cosmological and astrophysical information in upcoming surveys of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). However, the kSZ effect will also act as the dominant source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-10 Simon Foreman , Selim C. Hotinli , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Alexander van Engelen , Christina D. Kreisch
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