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The velocity of clusters of galaxies relative to the microwave background. The possibility of its measurement

R. A. SunyaevAcademy of Sciences, USSR, Space Research Institute, Profsoyuznaja 88, 117810 Moscow, USSRYa. B. Zel’dovichAcademy of Sciences, USSR, Space Research Institute, Profsoyuznaja 88, 117810 Moscow, USSR
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Abstract

Observation of the microwave background intensity and polarization in the direction of clusters of galaxies permit us, in principle, to measure their peculiar velocities relative to the background radiation.

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