Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2134l&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2134. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a spectral effect on the COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMB) caused by interaction with the electrons in the hot gas inside a CLUSTER OF GALAXIES. In the Rayleigh-Jeans portion of the spectrum it manifests itself as a small (˜0.5 μK) dip in the temperature of the CMB in the direction of the cluster. First proposed in 1970, about 20 yr of observational effort w...

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