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most citedThe Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 Maps and Cosmological Parameters

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31 papers

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

Searching for Systematics in Forward Modeling Sunyaev-Zeldovich Profiles

Emily Moser, Nicholas Battaglia, Stefania Amodeo

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich thermal (tSZ) and kinetic (kSZ) effects can be used to constrain the thermodynamic properties of pressure and density, respectively, of galaxies and their sur…

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★ 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.GA2022★ 22 cited

The galaxy mass-size relation in CARLA clusters and proto-clusters at 1.4 < z < 2.8: larger cluster galaxy sizes

Anton V. Afanasiev, Simona Mei, Hao Fu +12

(Abridged) We study the galaxy mass-size relation in CARLA spectroscopically confirmed clusters at , which span a total stellar mass $11.3<\mathrm{log}(M^c_*/M_{\odot})<…

astro-ph.GA2022

Morphology-density Relation, Quenching, and Mergers in CARLA Clusters and Proto-Clusters at

Simona Mei, Nina A. Hatch, Stefania Amodeo +11

(Abridged) To understand if the morphology-density and passive-density relations are already established at z>1.5, we study galaxies in 16 confirmed clusters at from th…

astro-ph.IM2022

European Virtual Observatory Schools

Fran Jiménez-Esteban, Mark Allen, Stefania Amodeo +5

The European Virtual Observatory (VO) initiative organises regular VO schools since 2008. The goals are twofold: i) to expose early-career European astronomers to the variety of cu…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 2 cited

The Circumgalactic Medium from the CAMELS Simulations: Forecasting Constraints on Feedback Processes from Future Sunyaev-Zeldovich Observations

Emily Moser, Nicholas Battaglia, Daisuke Nagai +9

The cycle of baryons through the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is important to understand in the context of galaxy formation and evolution. In this study we forecast constraints on t…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

Probing Hot Gas Components of Circumgalactic Medium in Cosmological Simulations with the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

Junhan Kim, Sunil Golwala, James G. Bartlett +8

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is a powerful tool with the potential for constraining directly the properties of the hot gas that dominates dark matter halos because i…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 52 cited

Constraining baryonic feedback and cosmology with weak-lensing, X-ray, and kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich observations

Aurel Schneider, Sambit K. Giri, Stefania Amodeo +1

Modern weak-lensing observations are becoming increasingly sensitive to baryonic feedback processes which are still poorly understood. So far, this challenge has been faced either…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 17 cited

Atacama Cosmology Telescope measurements of a large sample of candidates from the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey: Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect confirmation of MaDCoWS candidates using ACT

John Orlowski-Scherer, Luca Di Mascolo, Tanay Bhandarkar +35

Galaxy clusters are an important tool for cosmology, and their detection and characterization are key goals for current and future surveys. Using data from the Wide-field Infrared…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 13 cited

Constraining CMB temperature evolution with Sunyaev-Zel'dovich galaxy clusters from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Yunyang Li, Adam D. Hincks, Stefania Amodeo +30

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect introduces a specific distortion of the blackbody spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation when it scatters off hot gas in clu…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 29 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Summary of DR4 and DR5 Data Products and Data Access

Maya Mallaby-Kay, Zachary Atkins, Simone Aiola +57

Two recent large data releases for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), called DR4 and DR5, are available for public access. These data include temperature and polarization maps…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 17 cited

The Impacts of Modeling Choices on the Inference of the Circumgalactic Medium Properties from Sunyaev-Zeldovich Observations

Emily Moser, Stefania Amodeo, Nicholas Battaglia +3

As the signal-to-noise of Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) cross-correlation measurements of galaxies improves our ability to infer properties about the circumgalactic medium (CGM), we will…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 59 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with SDSS DR15 Galaxies

Victoria Calafut, Patricio A. Gallardo, Eve M. Vavagiakis +49

We present a 5.4 detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect using Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and CMB observations in combination wi…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 33 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the Baryon Content of SDSS DR15 Galaxies with the Thermal and Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effects

Eve M. Vavagiakis, Patricio A. Gallardo, Victoria Calafut +49

We present high signal-to-noise measurements (up to 12) of the average thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect from optically selected galaxy groups and clusters and estimate th…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 22 cited

MERGHERS Pilot: MeerKAT discovery of diffuse emission in nine massive Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected galaxy clusters from ACT

K. Knowles, D. S. Pillay, S. Amodeo +26

The MeerKAT Exploration of Relics, Giant Halos, and Extragalactic Radio Sources (MERGHERS) survey is a planned project to study a large statistical sample of galaxy clusters with t…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 24 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Weighing distant clusters with the most ancient light

Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Cristóbal Sifón, Nicholas Battaglia +58

We use gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to measure the mass of the most distant blindly-selected sample of galaxy clusters on which a lensing measurem…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 302 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Catalog of > 4000 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters

M. Hilton, C. Sifón, S. Naess +146

We present a catalog of 4195 optically confirmed Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy clusters detected with signal-to-noise > 4 in 13,211 deg of sky surveyed by the Atacama…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 132 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Modeling the Gas Thermodynamics in BOSS CMASS galaxies from Kinematic and Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Measurements

Stefania Amodeo, Nicholas Battaglia, Emmanuel Schaan +52

The thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects (tSZ, kSZ) probe the thermodynamic properties of the circumgalactic and intracluster medium (CGM and ICM) of galaxies, groups,…

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.CO2020★ 271 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectra at 98 and 150 GHz

Steve K. Choi, Matthew Hasselfield, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho +136

We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the CMB measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 5400 deg of the 2013-2016 survey, which cove…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 629 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 Maps and Cosmological Parameters

Simone Aiola, Erminia Calabrese, Loïc Maurin +138

We present new arcminute-resolution maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, using data taken from 2013…