A possible detection of gas rotation in galaxy groups via the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract We utilise the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (kSZ) to measure the rotation of ionised gas within galaxy groups defined in the SDSS-DR7 galaxy sample, via their dipolar imprint on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We estimate the direction of the projected angular momentum for each of our selected fast-rotating groups by measuring the redshift dipole of satellite galaxies around their group centres. We find a clear redshift dipole in the stacked data for the selected SDSS groups. We then perform oriented stacking of the Planck CMB temperature map using the group centres and directions of angular momenta. We report a 2.3σ tentative detection of the dipolar rotational kSZ effect (rkSZ) within the virial radii of our fast-rotating groups from SDSS with an average mass of 1014 h−1M⊙ (corresponding to a null-hypothesis probability of 0.96%). We estimate the averaged rotational velocity of the sample to be ∼ 100 − 200 km s−1, reaching a maximum value of 158.8 ± 13.6 km s−1. Our results are consistent within the errors with predictions based on the ELUCID constrained realisation simulation, with the predicted amplitude of the rkSZ signal being slightly lower near the centre. We also identify a systematic bias when estimating rotational velocities using the observed redshifts of galaxies, but find it to be subdominant for our analysis.
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Authors Tianyi Yang, Yan-Chuan Cai, Weiguang Cui, John A. Peacock, Romeel Davé, Houjun Mo, Huiyuan Wang, Xiaohu Yang
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Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 2026
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10.1093/mnras/stag1943
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1943
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