RASHID SUNYAEV DIRECTOR, MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ASTROPHYSICS |
In 1970
relic radiation from the Big Bang was predicted to interact
with intergalactic matter in clusters of galaxies in a
manner in which both primordial density fluctuations and
the cluster IGM could be characterized. This interaction has
now been observed in numerous galaxy clusters. A great deal of new
data on the S-Z effect is now coming in from the South
Pole Telescope, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope,
the Planck spacecraft, and X-Ray space observatories that
are revealing new information about the IGM and
cosmology.