Probing the large-scale structure of the Universe with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a spectral distortion in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), due to up-scattering of CMB photons by high energy electrons in clusters of galaxies or any cosmic structure. The Planck satellite mission has measured the spectral distortion with great sensitivity...
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University of British Columbia
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63189 |