The impact of galaxy cluster mergers on cosmological parameter estimation from surveys of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 680, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-31

  Wik, Daniel R ^a   Sarazin, Craig L ^a   Ricker, Paul M ^b   Randall, Scott W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmological parameters; Galaxies: clusters: general; Hydrodynamics; Intergalactic medium; Large scale structure of universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 46249103706     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/587790     Document Type: Article

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