It's not easy to find, but researchers are just barely able to detect the kSZ effect today by correlating two separate datasets: their CMB maps of choice and the newly precise maps of galaxy structures. (discovermagazine.com)
The new iteration, launched this week, follows up on that basic data set by probing galaxy structure more deeply. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
David Merritt, professor of astrophysics at Rochester Institute of Technology, co-authored «Co-orbiting satellite galaxy structures are still in conflict with the distribution of primordial dwarf galaxies,» to be published in an upcoming issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. (sciencedaily.com)