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Measurements of the Scattering of the Microwave Background Radiation in Clusters of Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

M. Birkinshaw
M. Birkinshaw*
Affiliation:
Department of Radio Astronomy, University of California Berkeley, California 94720

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Results for the decrements in the microwave background radiation towards the centres of 13 clusters of galaxies are presented. It is shown that these data imply central gas densities of about 2 × 10−24 kg m−3 and cluster masses of about 5 × 1045 kg.

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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 92: Objects of High Redshift , 1980 , pp. 313 - 319
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Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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