Cosmos in a Computer
Simulations suggest monster clusters may lurk in the distant
universe
A computer model hints that over
the next few years, a new fleet of orbiting telescopes may find clusters
of distant galaxies that are hotter and more massive than any in our
cosmic backyard.
References:
Carlstrom, J.E., et al. 1999. Imaging the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich
effect. Available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9905255.
Further Readings:
1994. The supernova that wasn't. Science News 146(Oct. 22):265.
Cowen, R. 1999. Plethora of quasars. Science News 155(Jan.
23):57.
______. 1998. The greatest
story ever told. Science News 154(Dec. 19&26):392.
Sources:
John E. Carlstrom
University of Chicago
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Richard S. Ellis
University of Cambridge
Institute of Astronomy
Madingley Road
Cambridge CB3 0HA
United Kingdom
August E. Evard
University of Michigan
Department of Physics
1049 Randall Laboratory
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Michael L. Norman
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Beckman Institute
D-25 405 North Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
From Science
News, Vol. 155, No. 22, May 29, 1999, p. 344.
Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
