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Thompson Scattering
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The incident energy per unit area on the electron is given by the Poynting vector,

Using Larmor's formula, and averaging over time gives the intensity of radiation scattered into the solid angle

It is clear that the scattered radiation is therefore polarised polarised even for unpolarised incident radiation, rising to at . Also note that as much radiation is scattered backwards as forwards.

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Compton and Inverse-Compton Scattering
In Compton scattering high energy photons scatter off stationary electrons. They transfer energy and momentum to these electrons and so their wavelength increases. It is often succifient to transform into the zero-momentum frame, consider the collision as Thompson scattering and then transform back into the lab frame. This gives

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The Cosmic Microwave Background
After the Big Bang the Universe expanded and cooled.

Until the Universe was 300,000 years old the temperature was so high that all baryonic matter was ionised. Therefore the mean free path for a photon was very small, and so the optical depth . The radiation and matter were is almost perfect thermal equilibrium The radiation had a blackbody spectrum. At at redshift the electrons and ions in the plasma combined to form atoms the optical depth dropped dramatically and their mean free path became much greater than the size of the Universe. The photons have continued to cool and are now at a temperature of (microwaves). Observing this CMB radiation allows us to directly observe the Universe at the epoch of recombination.

Detecting these anisotropies allows calculation of the geometry of the Universe, determination of mass densities, etc. Other radiation sources also lie along the line of sight and contaminate our measurements.

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Extra galactic sources may be optically thick or thin, free-free or synchrotron sources A wide variety of different spectra, so it is not possible to remove contamination spectrally. However, extragalactic sources generally have small angular sizes, so can remove them with high resolution imaging.

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The spectrum is shifted from a blackbody to higher energy, conserving photon number. At low frequency observe a decrease in intensity towards cluster; at high frequency observe an increase in intensity. The frequency where there is no intensity change is approximately 220 GHZ.

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NB The above expression is independent of redshift. This means that the SZ effect is a very impor tant tool for investigating early structure formation.

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Assuming that (ie that cluster is spherical) and a geometry for the Universe ( ) can calculate a value for

In theory can determine the geometry of the Universe from clusters at a range of different redshifts. Average over many randomly orientated clusters to reduce error due to aspherical clusters.

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Background sources will mask the SZ effect and their contamination must be removed. These confusing sources are generally much smaller than the size of a cluster, so can determine their flux by high resolution mapping. With an interferometer (eg Ryle) get this high resolution imaging from the long baselines which are insensitive to the large angular scale SZ effect. Subtract these sources from the shor t baseline data which is sensitive to the SZ.

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Glossary
Absorbtion Coefficient, : Fraction of incident radiation absorbed per unit length of absorber. Includes the effect of stimulated emission. Blackbody Radiation: Radiation produced when the emitters and the radiation are in prefect thermodynamic equilibrium. Intensity predicted by Planck's law. Brightness Temperature, : The temperature that a blackbody would have to emit radiation of the observed intensity at a given frequency. Compton Scattering: The collision of a high energy photon with an electron. The photon looses energy and momentum to the electron and so its wavelength increases.

Extinction: Attenuation (of starlight) due to absorbtion and scattering by the Ear th's atmosphere and by interstellar dust. Flux Density: The power in radiation incident per area unit area per unit frequency. ). Often measured in Jy (

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Luminosity: Power emitted in radiation. : The total cross-section .

Optical Depth, : A measure of the integrated opacity along a path through a layer of material at a par ticular frequency . Planck Function: Formula that determines the distribution of intensity of radiation under conditions of thermal equilibrium at temperature . Rayleigh-Jeans Approximation: Low frequency approxi. mation to the Planck formula, appropriate when .

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Surface Brightness: Emergent specific intensity.

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