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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…

Massive star clusters are observed in a broad range of galaxy luminosity and types, and are assumed to form in dense gas-rich environments. Using a parsec-resolution hydrodynamical simulation of an isolated gas-rich low mass galaxy, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-04 Nicolas Guillard , Eric Emsellem , Florent Renaud

We extend the formalism of the relativistic thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects and include the polarization of the cosmic microwave background photons. We consider the situation that a cluster of galaxies is moving with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Naoki Itoh , Satoshi Nozawa , Yasuharu Kohyama

Studying galaxy clusters through their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) imprint on the Cosmic Microwave Background has many important advantages. The total SZ signal is an accurate and precise tracer of the total pressure in the intra-cluster medium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-19 Keith Grainge , Stefano Borgani , Sergio Colafrancesco , Chiara Ferrari , Anna Scaife , Paolo Marchegiani , S. Emritte , J. Weller

The imaging of galaxy clusters through the Sunyaev--Zel'dovich effect is a valuable tool to probe the thermal pressure of the intra-cluster gas, especially in the outermost regions where X-ray observations suffer from photon statistics. For…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Anna Silvia Baldi , Hervé Bourdin , Pasquale Mazzotta , Dominique Eckert , Stefano Ettori , Massimo Gaspari , Mauro Roncarelli

The two dimensional structure of hot gas in galaxy clusters contains information about the hydrodynamical state of the cluster, which can be used to understand the origin of scatter in the thermodynamical properties of the gas, and to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Finoguenov , A. J. R. Sanderson , J. J. Mohr , J. J. Bialek , A. Evrard

Galaxy cluster merger shocks are the main agent for the thermalization of the intracluster medium and the energization of cosmic ray particles in it. Shock propagation changes the state of the tenuous intracluster plasma, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-28 Kaustuv Basu , Jens Erler , Martin Sommer , Franco Vazza , Dominique Eckert

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect has long been recognized as a powerful cosmological probe. Using the BAHAMAS and MACSIS simulations to obtain $>10,000$ simulated galaxy groups and clusters, we compute three temperature measures and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-03 Elizabeth Lee , Jens Chluba , Scott T. Kay , David J. Barnes

Feedback to the interstellar medium (ISM) from ionising radiation, stellar winds and supernovae is central to regulating star formation in galaxies. Due to their low mass ($M_{*} < 10^{9}$\,M$_\odot$), dwarf galaxies are particularly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-17 Michelle L. M. Collins , Justin I. Read

Galaxy clusters are not iso-thermal, and the radial temperature dependence will affect the cluster parameters derived through the observation of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect. We show that the derived peculiar velocity will be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steen H. Hansen

We measure thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) Effect in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of $\approx$2.5 million $\rm M_{200}$=$\rm 10^{12-14}\,M_\odot$ WISE$\times$DESI galaxies out to $z$=1.2. We split the sample into quiescent (0.7 million)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-14 Sanskriti Das , Nhut Truong , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Smita Mathur

We present templates for the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) angular power spectrum based on four models for the nonlinear gas distribution. The frequency-dependent SZ temperature fluctuations, with thermal (TSZ) and kinetic (KSZ) contributions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hy Trac , Paul Bode , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We present a parameterized model of the intra-cluster medium that is suitable for jointly analysing pointed observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and X-ray emission in galaxy clusters. The model is based on assumptions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. R. Allison , A. C. Taylor , M. E. Jones , S. Rawlings , S. T. Kay

The hot gas in clusters of galaxies creates a distinctive spectral distortion in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The spectral signature of the SZ can be used to measure the CMB temperature at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Gemma Luzzi , Emanuele D'Angelo , Hervé Bourdin , Federico De Luca , Pasquale Mazzotta , Filippo Oppizzi , Gianluca Polenta

The interstellar medium of galaxies, with temperatures reaching several million degrees, provides a pivotal perspective for understanding the physical and chemical properties of star formation, galactic evolution, and their associated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 Chunyi Zhang , Junfeng Wang

The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect and the X-ray emission offer separate and highly complementary probes of the thermodynamics of the intracluster medium, particularly on their radial dependence. We already released \texttt{JoXSZ},…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Fabio Castagna , Stefano Andreon , Alberto Trombetta , Marco Landoni

If the gas in filaments and halos shares the same velocity field than the luminous matter, it will generate measurable temperature anisotropies due to the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. We compute the distribution function of the KSZ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Atrio-Barandela , J. P. Muecket , R. Genova-Santos

The masses of galaxy clusters are a key tool to constrain cosmology through the physics of large-scale structure formation and accretion. Mass estimates based on X-ray and Sunyaev--Zel'dovich measurements have been found to be affected by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Anna Silvia Baldi , Marco De Petris , Federico Sembolini , Gustavo Yepes , Weiguang Cui , Luca Lamagna

Measurements of the Hubble constant to distant galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect are systematically low in comparison to values obtained by other means. These measurements usually assume a spherical isothermal $\beta$ model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wen-Ching Lin , Michael L. Norman , Greg L. Bryan

The spectral distortion of the cosmic background radiation produced by the inverse Compton scattering on hot electrons in clusters of galaxies (thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect) is calculated for arbitrary optical depth and electron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. D. Dolgov , S. H. Hansen , S. Pastor , D. V. Semikoz