To appear in Background Microwave Radiation and
Intracluster Cosmology, Proceedings of the International School of
Physics "Enrico Fermi", Eds. Melchiorri, F. & Rephaeli, Y., 2004
astro-ph/0410336
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OBSERVATIONAL ISSUES IN RADIOMETRIC AND INTERFEROMETRIC
DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECTS
M. Birkinshaw and K. Lancaster
Department of
Physics,
University of Bristol,
Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, U.K.
Table of Contents
SINGLE-DISH AND INTERFEROMETRIC OBSERVATIONS
- Radiometric quantities
- Single-dish techniques
- Single-dish problems
- Example single-dish results
- Interferometric techniques
- Interferometric problems
- Example interferometer results
- SYSTEMATIC ERRORS AND THE SCIENCE RETURN FROM SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT STUDIES
- Cluster energetics
- Cluster baryon count
- Cluster gas structure
- Cluster mass distribution
- Cluster radial peculiar velocity
- Cluster Hubble diagram
- Blind surveys and number counts
- Baryon mass fraction evolution
- Microwave background temperature
- Cluster formation studies
- Transverse velocities
- A CASE STUDY: CL 0016+16
- X-ray data
- SZ data
- Distance of CL 0016+16
- Lensing and the SZ effect
- NEXT STEPS
- OCRA
- AMiBA
- The future: the ISZO
- Summary
- REFERENCES
