Clarifying the covariant formalism for the SZ effect due to relativistic non-thermal electrons

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dc.creatorBoehm, Celine
dc.creatorLavalle, Julien
dc.date2008-12-17
dc.date2009-02-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T13:06:39Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T13:06:39Z
dc.descriptionWe derive the covariant formalism associated with the relativistic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect due to a non-thermal population of high energy electrons in clusters of galaxies. More precisely, we show that the formalism proposed by Wright in 1979, based on an empirical approach (and widely used in the literature) to compute the inverse Compton scattering of a population of relativistic electrons on CMB photons, can actually be re-interpreted as a Boltzmann-like equation, in the single scattering approximation.
dc.description12 pages. Error in the interpretation of E. Wright's earlier results corrected. Accepted for publication in PRD
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0812.3282
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0812.3282
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D79:083505,2009
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.79.083505
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/227847
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleClarifying the covariant formalism for the SZ effect due to relativistic non-thermal electrons
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