The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect power spectrum in light of Planck

• Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Main Authors: McCarthy, IG, Le Brun, AMC, Schaye, J, Holder, GP
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2014
• Subjects: QB Astronomy; QC Physics; South Pole; Wilkinson; South pole
• Online Access: http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/11574/; https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/11574/1/stu543.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu543

The amplitude of the thermal Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect (tSZ) power spectrum is extremely sensitive to the abundance of the most massive dark matter haloes (galaxy clusters) and therefore to fundamental cosmological parameters that control their growth, such as σ8 and Ωm. Here we explore the sen...