Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect in modified gravity

Sunyaev–Zeldovich Effect

Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect from galaxy cluster rotation

We show how the temperature and the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background are affected by bulk rotation of clusters of galaxies owing to the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. The main effects of rotation are (i) a shift of the position of the peak of the temperature fluctuation relative to the center of the cluster by a few percent of the core radius and (ii) a tilt of the direction o...

The Sunyaev - Zeldovich Effect

During passage through a cluster of galaxies some of the photons of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation are scattered by electrons in the hot intracluster (IC) gas. The scattering slightly modifies the incident Planck spectrum, imprinting on it a unique spectral signature that was first described by Sunyaev & Zeldovich (1972). [The impact of hypothetical hot intergalactic gas on the...

Reconstructing the Peak Distribution in the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Surveys

We examine the ability of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect (SZE) statistics proposed by Lee (2002) using numerical simulations. The statistics describe the distribution of the peak heights in the noise-contaminated SZE sky maps, and provide an analysis technique to sort out the noise-contamination effect and estimate the number density of real clusters. The method is devised to be suitable for the...

A Measurement of H0 from the Sunyaev-zeldovich Effect

We present a determination of the Hubble constant, H0, from measurements of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in an orientation-unbiased sample of seven galaxy clusters. With improved X-ray models and a more z ! 0.1 accurate 32 GHz calibration, we obtain km s 1 Mpc 1 for a standard cold dark matter (CDM) 14 H p 64 14 0 11 sys cosmology, or km s 1 Mpc 1 for a flat LCDM cosmology. In combination with ...