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We use mock Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) maps to investigate how well the Planck mission might find and characterize clusters of galaxies. We discuss different combinations of frequency maps and different methods for identifying cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin White

We discuss a new method of finding the cluster temperatures which is independent of distance and therefore very useful for distant clusters. The hot gas of electrons in clusters of galaxies scatters and distorts the cosmic microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steen H. Hansen , Sergio Pastor , Dmitry V. Semikoz

This study unveils new insights into the Bullet Cluster through cm-wave observations made with the Australia Telescope Compact Array, focusing on the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect (SZE). A novel SZE feature was discovered, distinctively offset…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-08 Siddharth Savyasachi Malu , Sanjay K. Pandey

We report on observations of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect towards X-ray ROSAT clusters taken with a double channel (1.2 and 2 mm) photometer installed at the focus of the 15m SEST antenna in Chile. This paper describes the first results…

We build a simple, {\it top-down} model for the gas density and temperature profiles for galaxy clusters. The gas is assumed to be in hydrostatic equilibrium along with a component of non-thermal pressure taken from simulations and the gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Anya Chaudhuri , Subhabrata Majumdar

We report measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in three high-redshift (0.89 < z < 1.03), X-ray selected galaxy clusters. The observations were obtained at 30 GHz during the commissioning period of a new, eight-element…

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 present the analytical formulas, derived based on the halo model, to compute the cross-correlation between the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and the distribution of galaxy clusters. By binning the clusters according to their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Wenjuan Fang , Kenji Kadota , Masahiro Takada

We used the APEX-SZ and LABOCA bolometer cameras on the APEX telescope to map the decrement of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect at 150 GHz and the increment at 345 GHz toward the galaxy cluster Abell 2163. The SZE images were used to model the…

A recent stacking analysis of Planck HFI data of galaxy clusters (Hurier 2016) allowed to derive the cluster temperatures by using the relativistic corrections to the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE). However, the temperatures of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 P. Marchegiani , S. Colafrancesco

High-frequency, high-resolution imaging of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is an important technique to study the complex structures of the atmospheres of merging galaxy clusters. Such observations are sensitive to the details of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 D. A. Prokhorov , S. Colafrancesco , T. Akahori , E. T. Million , S. Nagataki , K. Yoshikawa

Galaxy clusters furnish extremely rich information on the contents and structure of our universe. The potential of galaxy cluster studies to constrain dark energy, for example, motivates a number of ambitious cluster surveys. Among these,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James G. Bartlett

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of eleven Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (SZE)-selected galaxy clusters (ten with new data) from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) southern survey. We have obtained new imaging from the Large APEX…

The most X-ray luminous cluster known, RXJ1347-1145 (z=0.45), has been the object of extensive study across the electromagnetic spectrum. We have imaged the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) at 90 GHz (3.3 mm) in RXJ1347-1145 at 10"…

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the Universe and comprise a high-temperature intracluster medium of about 10^7 K, believed to offer a main foreground effect for cosmic microwave background (CMB) data in the form of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Weike Xiao , Chen Chen , Bin Zhang , Yongfeng Wu , Mi Dai

We use measurements from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) cluster survey in combination with X-ray measurements to constrain cosmological parameters. We present a statistical method that fits for the scaling relations…

The interaction of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with the hot gas in clusters of galaxies, the so-called Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, is a very useful tool that allows us to determine the physical conditions in such clusters and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 M. Lopez-Corredoira , C. M. Gutierrez , R. T. Genova-Santos

We present a catalog of 224 galaxy cluster candidates, selected through their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signature in the first 720 deg2 of the South Pole Telescope (SPT) survey. This area was mapped with the SPT in the 2008 and 2009…

We investigate the influence of the finite extension and the aspherical geometry of a galaxy cluster on the estimate of the Hubble constant through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. An analysis of a recent CHANDRA image of the galaxy cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 R. Piffaretti , Ph. Jetzer , D. Puy , S. Schindler

This brief, general review the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (S-Z) effect includes a description of the calculation of the total intensity change and polarization components, a discussion of the basic properties of the S-Z power spectrum and cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Rephaeli , S. Sadeh , M. Shimon