Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1780049 | New Astronomy Reviews | 2006 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe (WMAP) has provided us with the highest resolution all-sky maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). As a result of thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, clusters of galaxies are imprinted as tiny, poorly resolved dips on top of primary CMB anisotropies in these maps. Here, I describe different efforts to extract the physics of intracluster medium (ICM) from the sea of primary CMB, through combining WMAP with low-redshift galaxy or X-ray cluster surveys. This finally culminates at a mean (universal) ICM pressure profile, which is for the first time directly constrained from WMAP 3Â year maps, and leads to interesting constraints on the ICM baryonic budget.
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Authors
Niayesh Afshordi,