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The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (tSZ) is a sensitive probe of cosmology, as it traces the abundance of galaxy clusters and groups in the late-time Universe. Upcoming cosmic microwave background experiments such as the Simons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Alina Sabyr , J. Colin Hill , Zoltan Haiman

New generation ground and space-based CMB experiments have ushered in discoveries of massive galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect, providing a new window for studying cluster astrophysics and cosmology. Many of the newly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jens Chluba , Daisuke Nagai , Sergey Sazonov , Kaylea Nelson

A new generation of CMB experiments will soon make sensitive high resolution maps of the microwave sky. At angular scales less than $\sim$10 arcminutes, most CMB anisotropies are generated at z $< 1000$, rather than at the surface of last…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Mario A. Riquelme , David N. Spergel

Temperature asymmetry in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data by the Planck satellite has been discovered and analyzed toward several nearby edge-on spiral galaxies. It provides a way to probe galactic halo rotation, and to constrain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Noraiz Tahir , Francesco De Paolis , Asghar Qadir , Achille A. Nucita

In recent years, the study of secondary anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background has become a fundamental instrument to test our understanding of the Universe. Using a set of lightcones produced with the ``Dark Energy and Massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Davide Luchina , Mauro Roncarelli , Matteo Calabrese , Giulio Fabbian , Carmelita Carbone

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

We report the detection of thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZ) fluctuations in the intracluster medium (ICM) of Coma cluster observed with ${\it Planck}$. The SZ data links the maximum observable X-ray scale to the large Mpc scale,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-05 Rishi Khatri , Massimo Gaspari

Outbursts from active galactic nuclei (AGN) can inflate cavities in the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters and are believed to play the primary role in offsetting radiative cooling in the ICM. However, the details of how the…

We consider the role of the galactic kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich (SZ) effect as a CMB foreground. While the galactic thermal Sunyaev Zeldovich effect has previously been studied and discarded as a potential CMB foreground, we find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Waelkens , M. Maturi , T. Ensslin

The major contribution to the anisotropy of the temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is believed to come from the interaction of linear density perturbations with the radiation previous to the decoupling time.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez

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

Sub-structures in the hot gas of galaxy clusters are related to their formation history and to the astrophysical processes at play in the intracluster medium (ICM). The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is directly sensitive to the…

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

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect arises from inverse Compton scattering of low energy photons onto thermal electrons, proportional to the integrated electron pressure, and is usually observed from galaxy clusters. However, we can…

Cosmic rays in galaxy clusters are unique probes of energetic processes operating with large-scale structures in the Universe. Precise measurements of cosmic rays in galaxy clusters are essential for improving our understanding of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Masato Shirasaki , Oscar Macias , Shin'ichiro Ando , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Naoki Yoshida

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

We detect the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich imprint of peculiar motions of galaxy groups and clusters, using the photometric DESI Legacy Survey together with cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Finn A. Roper , Yan-Chuan Cai , John A. Peacock

We present a new method for detecting the missing baryons by generating a template for the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. The template is computed from the product of a reconstructed velocity field with a galaxy field; we find that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-18 Shirley Ho , Simon Dedeo , David Spergel

We show how the correlation between the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (tSZ) from galaxy clusters and dust emission from cosmic infrared background (CIB) sources can be calculated in a halo model framework. Using recent tSZ and CIB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Graeme E. Addison , Joanna Dunkley , David N. Spergel