Minimizing Contaminant Leakage in Internal Linear Combination Maps Using a Data-Driven Approach

Kristen M. Surrao, Shivam Pandey, J. Colin Hill +1

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect, the inverse-Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off high-energy electrons, is a powerful probe of hot, ioni…