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20152026
most citedThe Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Combined kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements from BOSS CMASS and LOWZ halos

162 citations · 317 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

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

Full Nonlinear Velocity Reconstruction With Transformer and Ensemble Tree Machine Learning

Yulin Gong, Rachel Bean

Accurate reconstruction of peculiar velocities from galaxy positions is important for probing the motion and evolution of large scale structure. They are sensitive to the cosmologi…

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

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

Probing Gravity at Large Scales with kSZ-Reconstructed Velocities and CMB Lensing

Raagini Patki, Nicholas Battaglia, Rachel Bean

We present a new method for measuring the statistic that combines two CMB secondaries -- the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect and CMB lensing -- for the first time to…

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★ 1 cited

Cluster optical depth and pairwise velocity estimation using machine learning

Yulin Gong, Rachel Bean

We apply two machine learning methods, a CNN deep-leaning model and a gradient-boosting decision tree, to estimate individual cluster optical depths from observed properties derive…

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.IM2025★ 1 cited

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…

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

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing and SDSS BOSS cross-correlation measurement and constraints on gravity with the statistic

Lukas Wenzl, Rui An, Nick Battaglia +24

We derive new constraints on the statistic as a test of gravity, combining the CMB lensing map estimated from Data Release 6 (DR6) of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope with SDS…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

kSZ Pairwise Velocity Reconstruction with Machine Learning

Yulin Gong, Rachel Bean

We demonstrate that pairwise peculiar velocity correlations for galaxy clusters can be directly reconstructed from the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signature imprinted in the…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 16 cited

Constraining gravity with a new precision estimator using Planck + SDSS BOSS

Lukas Wenzl, Rachel Bean, Shi-Fan Chen +7

The statistic is a discriminating probe of gravity developed to test the prediction of general relativity (GR) for the relation between gravitational potential and clustering…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 162 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Combined kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements from BOSS CMASS and LOWZ halos

Emmanuel Schaan, Simone Ferraro, Stefania Amodeo +55

The scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off the free-electron gas in galaxies and clusters leaves detectable imprints on high resolution CMB maps: the thermal a…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 103 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Component-separated maps of CMB temperature and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

Mathew S. Madhavacheril, J. Colin Hill, Sigurd Naess +51

Optimal analyses of many signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) require map-level extraction of individual components in the microwave sky, rather than measurements at th…

astro-ph.IM2015

The Whole is Greater than the Sum of the Parts: Optimizing the Joint Science Return from LSST, Euclid and WFIRST

B. Jain, D. Spergel, R. Bean +26

The focus of this report is on the opportunities enabled by the combination of LSST, Euclid and WFIRST, the optical surveys that will be an essential part of the next decade's astr…