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The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect was previously measured in the Coma cluster by the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and Millimeter and IR Testa Grigia Observatory experiments and recently also with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe…

New Hubble Space Telescope observations of Cepheid variable stars in the nearby galaxy M96 give a distance to the host galaxy group, Leo-I, of 11.6+/-0.8 Mpc. This value, used in conjunction with several reliable secondary indicators of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 N. R. Tanvir , T. Shanks , H. C. Ferguson , D. R. T. Robinson

Observations of clusters in the 30 to 350 GHz range can in principle be used to determine a galaxy cluster's Comptonization parameter, y, peculiar velocity, v and gas temperature, T_e via the dependence of the kinetic and thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lloyd Knox , Gil Holder , Sarah Church

The Hubble constant, $H_0$, sets the scale of the size and age of the Universe and its determination from independent methods is still worthwhile to be investigated. In this article, by using the Sunyaev-Zel`dovich effect and X-ray surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-20 R. F. L. Holanda , J. V. Cunha , J. A. S. Lima

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 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect is a powerful tool for cosmology that can be used to measure the radial peculiar velocities of galaxy clusters, and thus to test, and constrain, theories of structure formation and evolution. This requires, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 N. Aghanim , K. M. Górski , J. -L. Puget

The Hubble constant is of paramount importance in astrophysics and cosmology. A large number of methods have been developed with different electromagnetic probes to estimate its value. The most recent results show a tension between values…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-19 Rosa Poggiani

We investigate how strongly and at what scales the Sunyaev- Zel'dovich effect reflects the shifting balance between the two processes that compete for governing the density and the thermodynamic state of the hot intra-cluster medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Cavaliere , N. Menci

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

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

It is shown that the Hubble constant can be derived from the standard luminosity function of galaxies as well as from a new luminosity function as deduced from the mass-luminosity relationship for galaxies. An analytical expression for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-20 Lorenzo Zaninetti

We present estimates of the confusion limit of measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZ) increment near its peak intensity based on Monte Carlo simulations of sub-millimetre observations of galaxy clusters. Specifically, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Zemcov , Peter Newbury , Mark Halpern

Type Ia supernovae are the best cosmological standard candles available. The intrinsic scatter of their decline-rate- and colour-corrected peak brightnesses in the Hubble diagram is within observational error limits, corresponding to an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tom Richtler , Georg Drenkhahn , Matias Gomez , Wilhelm Seggewiss

We study the influence of intracluster large scale magnetic fields on the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. In a macroscopic approach we complete the hydrostatic equilibrium equation with the magnetic field pressure component.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. M. Koch , Ph. Jetzer , D. Puy

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

In this work, we constrain the Hubble constant parameter, $H_0$, using a combination of the Pantheon sample and galaxy clusters (GC) measurements from minimal cosmological assumptions. Assuming the validity of the cosmic distance duality…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-27 L. R. Colaço , M. S. Ferreira , R. F. L. Holanda , J. E. Gonzalez , Rafael C. Nunes

In this work, we obtain Hubble constant ($H_0$) estimates by using two galaxy cluster gas mass fraction measurement samples, Type Ia supernovae luminosity distances, and the validity of the cosmic distance duality relation. Notably, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-09 Javier E. Gonzalez , Marcelo Ferreira , Leorando R. Colaço , Rodrigo F. L. Holanda , Rafael C. Nunes

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

In galaxy clusters the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from the hot intracluster medium (ICM) provides a direct, self-contained measure of the pressure integrated over crossing lines of sight, that is intrinsically independent of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Cavaliere , A. Lapi

We present detections of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect (SZE) at 150GHz and 275GHz for the X-ray luminous z=0.299 cluster 1E0657-67. These observations were obtained as part of an X-ray, weak lensing, and SZE survey of nearby X-ray bright…