The kinematic Sunyaev Zeldovich effect and transverse cluster velocities

Details The kinematic Sunyaev Zeldovich effect and transverse cluster velocities The kinematic Sunyaev Zeldovich effect and transverse cluster velocities

1998-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9812310v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Submitted to MNRAS letter. 5 pages using mnras file style. email: edouard.audit@obspm.fr

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02647.x

The polarization of the CMBR scattered by galaxy clusters in the kinematic Sunyaev Zeldovich effect depends on the transverse velocity of the cluster. This polarizing effect is proportional to the transverse velocity squared, and so weaker that the change in intensity due to the radial motion in the kinematic effect. The value given by Sunyaev and Zeldovich, and which is frequently cited, underestimates the polarizing effect by a factor of ten. We show furthermore that the polarization has a strong frequency dependence. This means that the polarization should be detectable with the new generation of CMBR probes, at least for some clusters. Thus this effect offers, almost uniquely, a method of obtaining the vectorial velocity of clusters.

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