Background Microwave Radiation and Intracluster Cosmology
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Author(s): Società Italiana di Fisica
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 1586035851
Format: hardback
495pp
Price: £133.00, $234.00, €195
Review Date: 10 April 2006
Review: These are the 24 papers given at the ‘Enrico Fermi Summer School: Course CLIX’, held in Italy in 2004. They represent most of the current topics of the Sunyaev–Zeldovich (S–Z) effect and in the astrophsics of clusters, giving the students and senior scientist that attended the workshop a comprehensive exposition of all relevant aspects of the S–Z effect and its use as a precise cluster and cosmological probe. Papers include: theory and simulations of hot gas in clusters; the universe seen by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe; X-ray observations of galaxy clusters; the intracluster plasma; cosmology from the ground; statistical imprints of SZ effects; progress in bolometric CMD measurements; SZ observations with MITO, discovery of the CMB etc.