Research report 2016 - Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

Predicting the Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal from cosmological, hydro-dynamical simulations

Authors
Dolag, Klaus; Komatsu, Eiichiro; Sunyaev, Rashid
Departments
„Computational Structure Formation“ & „Physical Cosmology“ & „High Energy Astrophysics“
Summary
Using recent, extensive cosmological simulations, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have shown that the expected signal from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect of galaxy clusters on the Cosmic Microwave Background agrees remarkably well with observations by the Planck satellite. However, only a small fraction of this predicted signal is currently observable. The scientists developed a simple analytical model to understand the SZ probability distribution function, which is also helpful in interpreting the observed distribution of galaxy clusters masses.

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