The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
This brief, general review the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (S-Z) effect includes a description of the calculation of the total intensity change and polarization components, a discussion of the basic properties of the S-Z power spectrum and cluster number counts, and a summary of the main observational results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0511626,
title = {The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect},
author = {Y. Rephaeli and S. Sadeh and M. Shimon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0511626},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
18 pages, 6 figures; to appear in proceedings of the Enrico Fermi School `Background Microwave Radiation and Intracluster Cosmology', editors: F. Melchiorri and Y. Rephaeli