Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-11-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, including 2 postscript figs, LaTeX. To appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 188 "The Hot Universe" (held August
Scientific paper
The hot gas in clusters of galaxies emits thermal bremsstrahlung emission that can be probed directly through measurements in the X-ray band with satellites like ROSAT and ASCA. Another probe of this gas comes from its effect on the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR): the hot cluster electrons inverse Compton scatter the CMBR photons and thereby distort the background radiation from its blackbody spectral form. In the last few years, the development of sensitive new instruments for measuring this distortion, called the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, has sparked a revolution in the field. Current radio interferometric arrays can now detect and map the SZ effect in even distant (z ~ 1) clusters. It is well known that one of the purposes of conducting such measurements is to determine the Hubble constant. In this review I report on the progress that has been made in this area, quote the current best estimate of Ho from the SZ effect of 8 galaxy clusters (44 - 64 km/s/Mpc +/- 17%), discuss important systematic uncertainties, and highlight what else has been learned about galaxy clusters from these investigations.
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