Seminar

Future prospects and facilities for measurements of the SZ effect and the high-z Universe

By
Tony Mroczkowski (European Southern Observatory)
Date
Place
Zoom
seminar ICCUB
Galaxy clusters are an important cosmological probe, particularly at high redshift where their formation, abundance, and evolution are most sensitive to cosmology. Predicted 5 decades ago, the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect provides a tool selecting clusters in a nearly** redshift-independent way based on mass, yet it has only become a truly mature tool for cluster cosmology and astrophysics over the past decade. Here I will discuss efforts to use the thermal SZ effect for astrophysics, primarily at high resolution, and some prospects for future instrumentation that will also improve our ability probe cluster motion and dynamics through the kinematic SZ effect.