Cosmic Microwave Background:
Rishi Khatri works on distortions of the CMB spectrum from the Planck
shape, as well as the interaction of matter and radiation in the early
Universe. He has written a public Mathematica code that very
quickly calculates the total spectral distortion from a user-defined
rate of energy injection. A fast code like this one is ideally suited
to exploring the full and very rich parameter space of
intermediate-type distortions.
Satej Khedekar is interested in understanding the physical properties of the ICM
that can be constrained through observations in X-ray, SZ and optical;
using observations of galaxy clusters in constraining cosmology;
breaking degeneracies between cosmology and cluster physics.
Margherita Molaro is studying the effects of dark matter annihilation in the early Universe and possible imprints on the cosmic microwave background.
Comments to: Taka Tanaka
taka (at) mpa-garching.mpg.de
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