The kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich effect as a benchmark for AGN feedback models in hydrodynamical simulations: insights from DESI + ACT

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Baryonic feedback remains one of the largest uncertainties in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, with different prescriptions producing divergent predictions for the fraction of gas expelled from halos, the radial extent of the gas expulsion and the impact on large scale matter clustering. We present the first systematic study of the kinetic Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (kSZ) effect across a wide range of simulations (FLAMINGO, ANTILLES, BAHAMAS, SIMBA, FABLE and their variants), and compare them directly to DESI Year 1 + ACT kSZ measurements. We ensure a like-for-like comparison with observations by developing a robust methodology that accounts for the halo mass selection using galaxy-galaxy lensing, cosmic variance, miscentering and satellites, establishing the kSZ effect as a new benchmark for the simulations. We find that fiducial feedback models are disfavoured by >3σ, while simulations with more powerful AGN feedback within the FLAMINGO and BAHAMAS suites reproduce the observed kSZ signal within <2σ. We use the ANTILLES simulation suite to demonstrate that the amplitude of the kSZ effect is a strong predictor of matter power spectrum suppression, competitive with baryon fraction metrics. This paper clearly demonstrates the potential of kSZ measurements in evaluating feedback physics and for advancing the fidelity of cosmological simulations.
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Authors Leah Bigwood, M. Yamamoto, Jared Siegel, A. Amon, Ian G. McCarthy, Romeel Davé, Jaime Salcido, Matthieu Schaller, Joop Schaye, Tianyi Yang
Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 2026
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10.1093/mnras/stag1314
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1314
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