The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect as a probe of cluster physics and cosmology.
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, 2010. The universe is a complex environment playing host to a plethora of macroscopic and microscopic processes. Understanding the interplay and evolution of such processes will help to shed light on the properties and evolution of the universe....
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ftunkwazulunatal:oai:researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/5867 2023-05-15T18:23:18+02:00 The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect as a probe of cluster physics and cosmology. Warne, Ryan Russell. Moodley, Kavilan. 2012-07-17T09:49:59Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5867 en eng http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5867 Cosmic background radiation Cosmology Cluster theory (Nuclear physics) Theses--Mathematics Thesis 2012 ftunkwazulunatal 2023-03-07T17:02:26Z Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, 2010. The universe is a complex environment playing host to a plethora of macroscopic and microscopic processes. Understanding the interplay and evolution of such processes will help to shed light on the properties and evolution of the universe. The juxtaposition is that in order to study small scale effects one needs to observe large scale structure as the latter objects trace the history of our universe. Galaxy groups and clusters are the largest known objects in the universe and thus provide a means to probe the evolution of structure formation in the universe as well as the underlying cosmology. In this thesis we investigate how clusters observed through the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect can be used to constrain cosmological models. In addition, we present the first results of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), a mm-wave telescope measuring the small-scale microwave background anisotropy, and conclude with preliminary SZ cluster detection performed on the latest ACT sky maps. In the first part of this thesis we investigate the ability of high resolution cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments to detect hot gas in the outer regions of nearby group halos. We construct two hot gas models for the halos; a simpler adiabatic formalism with the gas described by a polytropic equation of state, and a more general gas description which incorporates feedback effects in line with constraints from X-ray observations. We calculate the thermal Sunyaev- Zel’dovich (tSZ) signal in these halos and compare it to the sensitivities of upcoming and current tSZ survey experiments such as ACT, PLANCK and the South Pole Telescope (SPT). Through the application of a multi-frequency Wiener filter, we derive mass and redshift based tSZ detectability limits for the various experiments, incorporating effects of galactic and extragalactic foregrounds as well as the CMB. In this study we find that galaxy group halos with virial masses below 1014M. can be detected at z ... Thesis South pole University of KwaZulu-Natal: ResearchSpace at UKZN South Pole |
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Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, 2010. The universe is a complex environment playing host to a plethora of macroscopic and microscopic processes. Understanding the interplay and evolution of such processes will help to shed light on the properties and evolution of the universe. The juxtaposition is that in order to study small scale effects one needs to observe large scale structure as the latter objects trace the history of our universe. Galaxy groups and clusters are the largest known objects in the universe and thus provide a means to probe the evolution of structure formation in the universe as well as the underlying cosmology. In this thesis we investigate how clusters observed through the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect can be used to constrain cosmological models. In addition, we present the first results of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), a mm-wave telescope measuring the small-scale microwave background anisotropy, and conclude with preliminary SZ cluster detection performed on the latest ACT sky maps. In the first part of this thesis we investigate the ability of high resolution cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments to detect hot gas in the outer regions of nearby group halos. We construct two hot gas models for the halos; a simpler adiabatic formalism with the gas described by a polytropic equation of state, and a more general gas description which incorporates feedback effects in line with constraints from X-ray observations. We calculate the thermal Sunyaev- Zel’dovich (tSZ) signal in these halos and compare it to the sensitivities of upcoming and current tSZ survey experiments such as ACT, PLANCK and the South Pole Telescope (SPT). Through the application of a multi-frequency Wiener filter, we derive mass and redshift based tSZ detectability limits for the various experiments, incorporating effects of galactic and extragalactic foregrounds as well as the CMB. In this study we find that galaxy group halos with virial masses below 1014M. can be detected at z ... |
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