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astro-ph.CO2026

Probing Baryons with the Kinematic Sunyae Zel'dovich Effect and Machine Learning Derived Peculiar Velocities using DESI DR2 and ACT DR6

Yulin Gong, Rachel Bean, Patricio A. Gallardo +54

We present novel empirical constraints on average optical depths and gas density profiles from combining kinematic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) measurements and nonlinear peculi…

astro-ph.CO2026

Optical Depths from the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT DR6 and DESI DR1 Spectroscopic Galaxies and Optically-Selected Clusters

J. E. Moore, C. Popik, Y. Gong +66

We present stacked thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect measurements for three samples of galaxy groups and clusters: those traced by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Da…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 2 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Test of the Gravitational Force Law on Cosmological Scales Using the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

Patricio A. Gallardo, Kris Pardo, Oliver H. E. Philcox +38

The mean pairwise velocity of massive halos reflects the gravitational force law on cosmic scales. We combine cosmic microwave background intensity maps from the Atacama Cosmology…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479

We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cross-correlation of kSZ and continuity equation velocity reconstruction with photometric DESI LRGs

Fiona McCarthy, Boryana Hadzhiyska, J. Richard Bond +12

Over the last year, kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (kSZ) velocity reconstruction -- the measurement of the large-scale velocity field using the anisotropic statistics of the small-s…

astro-ph.CO2025

Detection of the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and Pairwise Velocity with DESI DR1 Galaxies and ACT DR6 and Planck CMB Data

Yulin Gong, Patricio A. Gallardo, Rachel Bean +50

We present a 9.3-sigma detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect by combining a sample of 913,286 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Dark Energy Spectro…

astro-ph.CO2025

The thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in galaxy clusters and filaments using multifrequency temperature maps of the cosmic microwave background: Abell 399--Abell 401 cluster pair case study

Ajay S. Gill, Yilun Guan, Adam D. Hincks +19

We present a multifrequency and multi-instrument methodology to study the physical properties of galaxy clusters and cosmic filaments using cosmic microwave background observations…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Probing cosmic velocities with the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signal in DESI Bright Galaxy Sample DR1 and ACT DR6

B. Hadzhiyska, Y. Gong, Y. Hsu +55

We present a measurement of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Sample (BGS) Data Release 1 (…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 10 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Selected Galaxy Clusters Catalog

HSC Collaboration, M. Aguena, S. Aiola +98

We present the results of a search for galaxy clusters in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) microwave sky maps covering 16293 square degrees in three frequ…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Maps

Sigurd Naess, Yilun Guan, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +163

We present Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy at arcminute resolution over three…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 14 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Constraints on Extended Cosmological Models

Erminia Calabrese, J. Colin Hill, Hidde T. Jense +169

We use new cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary temperature and polarization anisotropy measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) to test fo…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 11 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Power Spectra, Likelihoods and CDM Parameters

Thibaut Louis, Adrien La Posta, Zachary Atkins +165

We present power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy in temperature and polarization, measured from the Data Release 6 maps made from Atacama Cosmology Tele…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Measurements of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT and DESI Luminous Red Galaxies

R. Henry Liu, Simone Ferraro, Emmanuel Schaan +54

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons scatter off the free-electron gas in galaxies and clusters, allowing us to use the CMB as a backlight to probe the gas in and around low-r…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A measurement of galaxy cluster temperatures through relativistic corrections to the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

William R. Coulton, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Zachary Atkins +32

The high electron temperature in galaxy clusters (keV or K) leads to corrections at the level of a few percent in their thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect signatures.…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Large-scale velocity reconstruction with the kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich effect and DESI LRGs

Fiona McCarthy, Nicholas Battaglia, Rachel Bean +27

The kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect induces a non-zero density-density-temperature bispectrum, which we can use to reconstruct the large-scale velocity field from a comb…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 14 cited

Evidence for large baryonic feedback at low and intermediate redshifts from kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations with ACT and DESI photometric galaxies

B. Hadzhiyska, S. Ferraro, B. Ried Guachalla +70

Recent advances in cosmological observations have provided an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the distribution of baryons relative to the underlying matter. In this work,…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Reionization kSZ trispectrum methodology and limits

Niall MacCrann, Frank J. Qu, Toshiya Namikawa +20

Patchy reionization generates kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Large-scale velocity perturbations along the line of sight mo…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: High-resolution component-separated maps across one-third of the sky

William R. Coulton, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +151

Observations of the millimeter sky contain valuable information on a number of signals, including the blackbody cosmic microwave background (CMB), Galactic emissions, and the Compt…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 9 cited

Pairwise kSZ signal extraction efficacy and optical depth estimation

Yulin Gong, Rachel Bean, Patricio A. Gallardo +3

We determine the efficacy of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signal extraction pipeline, using pairwise kSZ measurements, in recovering unbiased estimates of the signal and infere…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 16 cited

The Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT, DES, and BOSS: a Novel Hybrid Estimator

M. Mallaby-Kay, S. Amodeo, J. C. Hill +80

The kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ and tSZ) effects probe the abundance and thermodynamics of ionized gas in galaxies and clusters. We present a new hybrid estimator…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 347 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing Map and Cosmological Parameters

Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin +156

We present cosmological constraints from a gravitational lensing mass map covering 9400 sq. deg. reconstructed from CMB measurements made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) f…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 280 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and its Implications for Structure Growth

Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +155

We present new measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing over sq. deg. of the sky. These lensing measurements are derived from the Atacama Cosmology Telescop…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 22 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Map-Based Noise Simulations for DR6

Zachary Atkins, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, William R. Coulton +25

The increasing statistical power of cosmic microwave background (CMB) datasets requires a commensurate effort in understanding their noise properties. The noise in maps from ground…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 12 cited

Snowmass 2021 CMB-S4 White Paper

Kevork Abazajian, Arwa Abdulghafour, Graeme E. Addison +353

This Snowmass 2021 White Paper describes the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 project CMB-S4, which is designed to cross critical thresholds in our understanding of the origin a…