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most citedVelocity reconstruction in the era of DESI and Rubin (part I): Exploring spectroscopic, photometric & hybrid samples

17 citations · 70 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Model-Independent Measurement of Baryon Gas Fractions through Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing and the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

R. Henry Liu, Uroš Seljak, Simone Ferraro +52

Baryon feedback is a leading source of systematic uncertainty for cosmology from weak lensing, but measurements of the gas distribution around galaxies have largely relied on param…

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

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing new signatures of ultralight axions with gravitational lensing

Alex Laguë, Keir K. Rogers, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +14

Ultralight axions (ULAs) are well-motivated dark matter particle candidates that arise in many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. ULAs with mass $m_\mathrm{a} \l…

astro-ph.CO2026

Exploring gas thermodynamics around galaxies from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects: impact of galaxy-halo connection, 2D projection and velocity field

Sadaf Kadir, Bernardita Ried Guachalla, Sihan Yuan +2

A complete picture of the gas thermodynamics around galaxies is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Indeed, the thermal, kinematic, and relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dov…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on Local Non-Gaussianity from the ACT Cluster Catalog

Leonid Sarieddine, J. Richard Bond, Matt Hilton +8

We derive constraints on local-type primordial non-Gaussianity using the ACT DR6 Sunyaev--Zel'dovich cluster catalog. Modeling the redshift- and mass-dependent number counts of 1,2…

astro-ph.CO2025

Weak Lensing Mass Calibration of the ACT DR5 Galaxy Clusters with the DES Year 3 Weak Lensing Data

T. Shin, E. J. Baxter, E. Lee +93

We use weak gravitational lensing measurements from Year 3 Dark Energy Survey data to calibrate the masses of 443 galaxy clusters selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from At…

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

Constraints on cosmology and baryonic feedback with joint analysis of Dark Energy Survey Year 3 lensing data and ACT DR6 thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect observations

S. Pandey, J. C. Hill, A. Alarcon +137

We present a joint analysis of weak gravitational lensing (shear) data obtained from the first three years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 17 cited

Backlighting extended gas halos around luminous red galaxies: kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from DESI Y1 x ACT

Bernardita Ried Guachalla, Emmanuel Schaan, Boryana Hadzhiyska +58

The gas density profile around galaxies, shaped by feedback and affecting the galaxy lensing signal, is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the kinematic Sunyaev-…

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: 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★ 4 cited

Informed total-error-minimizing priors: Interpretable cosmological parameter constraints despite complex nuisance effects

Bernardita Ried Guachalla, Dylan Britt, Daniel Gruen +1

While Bayesian inference techniques are standard in cosmological analyses, it is common to interpret resulting parameter constraints with a frequentist intuition. This intuition ca…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

Bounds on galaxy stochasticity from halo occupation distribution modeling

Dylan Britt, Daniel Gruen, Oliver Friedrich +2

The joint probability distribution of matter overdensity and galaxy counts in cells is a powerful probe of cosmology, and the extent to which variance in galaxy counts at fixed mat…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Velocity reconstruction in the era of DESI and Rubin (part II): Realistic samples on the light cone

Boryana Hadzhiyska, Simone Ferraro, Bernardita Ried Guachalla +1

Reconstructing the galaxy peculiar velocity field from the distribution of large-scale structure plays an important role in cosmology. On one hand, it gives us an insight into stru…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 17 cited

Velocity reconstruction in the era of DESI and Rubin (part I): Exploring spectroscopic, photometric & hybrid samples

Bernardita Ried Guachalla, Emmanuel Schaan, Boryana Hadzhiyska +1

Peculiar velocities of galaxies and halos can be reconstructed from their spatial distribution alone. This technique is analogous to the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) reconstr…