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Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect is a phenomenon in which the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is distorted as photons travel through hot gas in galaxy clusters. Proposed by Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov Zel'dovich in 1972, this effect provides a powerful method for detecting distant galaxy clusters and measuring fundamental cosmological parameters without distance assumptions.

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Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect for Galaxy Cluster Detection
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  • Sunyaev, R. A., & Zel'dovich, Y. B. (1972). The observations of the relic radiation as a test of the nature of X-ray radiation from clusters of galaxies. Comments on Astrophysics and Space Physics, 4(4), 173-178. · URL
  • Carlstrom, J. E., Holder, G. P., & Reese, E. D. (2002). Cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 40, 643-680. · DOI 10.1146/annurev.astro.40.060401.093803
  • Planck Collaboration (2014). Planck 2013 results. XXVII. Doppler boosting of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 571, A27. · URL
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