The Sunyaev-Zeldovich MITO Project
Abstract
Compton scattering of the cosmic microwave background radiation by electrons in the hot gas in clusters of galaxies - the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect - has long been recognized as a uniquely important feature, rich in cosmological and astrophysical information. We briefly describe the effect, and emphasize the need for detailed S-Z and X-ray measurements of nearby clusters in order to use the effect as a precise cosmological probe. This is the goal of the MITO project, whose first stage consisted of observations of the S-Z effect in the Coma cluster. We report the results of these observations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0010084,
title = {The Sunyaev-Zeldovich MITO Project},
author = {Livia D'Alba and Francesco Melchiorri and Marco De Petris and Angiola Orlando and Luca Lamagna and Yoel Rephaeli and Sergio Colafrancesco and Monique Signore and Ernst Kreysa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0010084},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
To appear in Proceedings of `Understanding our Universe at the close of XXth century', School held Apr 25 - May 6 2000, Cargese, 16 pages LaTeX, 2 figures ps (using elsart.sty & elsart.cls), text minor revision