Chapter
Prospects for SZE cluster surveys
Cluster mass estimates compared
The universe as seen by Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe first-year observations
Brief overview of physics of CMB
Connection to the early universe
Results from the WMAP first-year observations
Determination of cosmological parameters from the angular power spectrum
Discovery of early reionization of the universe from polarization
Implications for the inflationary paradigm
Prospects for constraining inflationary models
The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Power spectrum and cluster counts
Results from S-Z and X-ray measurements
The gas mass fraction f g
Prospects for the near future
X-ray observations of clusters of galaxies
Observing clusters in X-ray
X-ray emission of clusters
Extracting physical information from X-ray observations
Modern X-ray observatories
Hierarchical cluster formation
Substructures and merger events in the local Universe
Cluster formation at high z
The detailed physics of merger events and the effect of the large-scale environment
Formation history and dynamical state
Statistical studies of cluster morphology
Mergers and non-thermal emission
Structural and scaling properties of the cluster population
The self-similar model of cluster formation
The dark matter in local clusters
Gas properties in local clusters
The complex physics in cluster core
Evolution of cluster properties
Constraining cosmological parameters with X-ray observations of clusters
The gas fraction as distance indicator
Cosmological parameters from cluster abundance and evolution
The X-ray cluster surveys
Measures of cluster space density
Constraints from local abundances
Breaking the degeneracy using local cluster clustering
Constraints from evolution
Observational issues in radiometric and interferometric detection and analysis of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects
Single-dish and interferometric observations
Example single-dish results
Interferometric techniques
Example interferometer results
Systematic errors and the science return from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect studies
Isothermal spherical clusters
Cluster mass distribution
Cluster radial peculiar velocity
Cluster velocity substructure
Blind surveys and number counts
Baryon mass fraction evolution
Microwave background temperature
Cluster formation studies
Lensing and the SZ effect
Closely scale-invariant DM
Plasma in hydrostatic equilibrium
How preheating affects the density run
How preheating changes the boundary conditions
The outcome: hierarchical preheating
External preheating from AGNs
Internal impacts by quasars
The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich probe
Discussion and conclusions
SZ cluster science with the Planck HFI experiment
The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Cosmology from the cluster catalogue?
Cluster parameters from single clusters
Cosmology from ground: Atmospheric transmittance, emission and fluctuations
The atmospheric transparency in the far infrared
Correlation among various photometric channels
The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect as a cosmic thermometer
Decaying-Lambda cosmologies
Deacaying scalar field cosmologies
The temperature of CMB as a function of the redshift
Local measurements of CMB temperature
Measurements of CMB temperature in molecular clouds at high redshift
Measurements of CMB temeperature in clusters of galaxies through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Planning the observations
Cosmological constraints on dark energy
Topological defects, -1/3 >= w X >= -2/3
Scalar fields - Quintessence -2/3 >= w X >= -1
Phantom or super-quintessence, -1 >= w X
Chaplyngin Gases w X = -1 today, w X = 0 yesterday
Analysis of the current data
Fit with a varying-with-redshift equation of state
Enlightening the cosmic dark ages
The imprint of cooling and feedback on the observational properties of the ICM
Results from hydrodynamical simulations
Relativistic corrections to the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect for clusters of galaxies
Comparison with the exact results
Numerical tables and fitting formulae
Multiple-scattering contributions
Statistical imprints of SZ effects in the cosmic microwave background
Thermal SZ contribution to the CMB power spectrum
Dark-matter density profile
Concentration-mass distribution
Comparison with current CMB data
Kinetic SZ contribution to the CMB power spectrum
SZ contributions to the polarized CMB
CMB-induced polarization towards clusters
CMB-induced cluster polarization and dark energy
Power spectra of SZ polarization
Progress in bolometric CMB measurements
SZ observations with MITO: The single-pixel photometer
OLIMPO: A multi-frequency survey of galaxy clusters and of the cosmic millimetric background
S-Z effect in clusters of galaxies
Background from unresolved AGNs
SZ observations with MITO: MAD, the multi-pixel photometer
Detectors, readout and data acquisition
Expected instrument performance
CMB measurements from MITO: 2004 observational campaign
The observational strategy
Calibrations and atmospheric transmission
VSA observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in galaxy clusters and in the Corona Borealis supercluster
Nearby galaxy cluster observations
Corona Borealis supercluster observations
The path to modern cosmology: An historical account, with lessons for current issues and approaches
The celestial sphere, epicycles and the eternity of matter
Replacing the celestial sphere, Newton's paradox
General Relativity, Einstein's paradox, and extra-galactic "Nebulae"
The origin of the elements
The eternity of matter, revisited
The "Gamow theory" reconsidered
"Signals imply a `Big Bang' Universe"
Overlooking the "obvious"
The discovery of the cosmic background radiation: The European contribution
The first attempt of measuring CMB in Europe: Emile Le Roux (1957)
After Penzias and Wilson discovery and before COBE: 1965-1992
The "colored" CMB anisotropies
Discovery of the CMB: A view from Princeton
Recounting the Princeton effort
The gravity group mobilizes
The community becomes involved
Early CMB measurements: A view from Berkeley
A very brief early history of primordial nucleosynthesis
The very early development
The development of the Standard Model
On the history of the evolution of the light element abundances
A brief summary of the "state of the art"
Primordial abundance of helium-4
Primordial abundance of lithium-7
Primordial abundance of deuterium
Primordial abundance of helium-3
BBN related cosmological parameters
Background Microwave Radiation and Intracluster Cosmology
( International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi” )
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