CMB to pairwise kSZ (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania

CMB to pairwise kSZ

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Light from the cosmic microwave background passes through hot gas around two galaxy clusters, picking up tiny distortions that telescopes can use to infer how the clusters are moving.

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Lucy Reading / Simons Foundation

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