1. The Sunyaev-Zeldovich MITO Project
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D'Alba, Livia, Melchiorri, Francesco, De Petris, Marco, Orlando, Angiola, Lamagna, Luca, Rephaeli, Yoel, Colafrancesco, Sergio, Signore, Monique, and Kreysa, Ernst
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Astrophysics - 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., Comment: 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
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- 2000
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