Workshop "The SZ effect and ALMA"
Insitut d'Astrophysique Spatiale - Orsay
7-8 april 05


In the context of the European network RadioNet and of the ALMA project, we organized a workshop with the title 'SZ Effect and ALMA'.

The workshop was held on April 7 and 8, 2005 at the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay (Paris area), France.

Aim of the meeting

The aim of this workshop, which was organized as part of the ALMA Forum in RadioNet, was to gather specialists of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect both with theoretical and observational backgrounds to discuss the status of the field and the current and planned experiments, in order to assess the role of ALMA in SZ studies.

The goals of this workshop are:

i) to start discussions on what will remain to be done on the SZ effect at the beginning of 2012 when ALMA will be fully operational.

ii) to investigate the importance of observations of the SZ effect at high-angular resolution.

iii) to define what are the key frequency bands for SZ studies in the mm/submm windows, in particular, are there crucial bands which are not in the baseline project?

The workshop was organized around a few key presentations on the subject and ample time was devoted to open discussions. It is the wish of the organizers to produce a document based on the presentations and the conclusions of this workshop. This document could serve as a first reference for further considerations in the ALMA project.


Programme


Thursday, April 7th 2005

Introduction to Cluster Physics and SZ effect:

10h - 10h30 (25+5)    "Review on SZ effect" Mark Birkinshaw (Bristol, UK)

10h30 - 11h (25+5)    "What do X-rays tell us about clusters?" Monique Arnaud (Saclay, France)

11h - 11h20 (15+5)    "Mapping the ICM around distant radio galaxies" Doris Neumann (Saclay, France)

11h20 - 11h50        Coffee Break

Single Dish and Interferometric Experiments:

11h50 - 12h10 (15+5)    "The SZ effect with AMI" Rudiger Kneissl (UCB, USA)

12h10 - 12h30 (15+5)    "The AMIBA project" Guo-Chin Liu (ASIAA, Taiwan)

12h30 - 12h50 (15+5)    "The SZ observations with the VSA" Katy Lancaster (Bristol, UK)

12h50 - 13h10 (15+5)    "Observing the SZ effect with the IRAM-30m and the PdBI" P. Cox (IRAM, France)

13h10 - 14h15        Lunch Break

14h15 - 14h35 (15+5)    "The SZ effect with APEX" Frank Bertoldi (MPIfR, Germany)

14h35 - 15h05 (25+5)    "Future SZ observations with SPT and CARMA" John Carlstrom (Chicago, USA)

15h05 - 15h35 (25+5)    "The SZ effect using ALMA" Robert Laing (ESO, Germany)

15h35 - 16h05        Coffee Break

Frequency and Resolution issues:

16h05 - 16h25 (15+5)    "Choice of the best operating frequencies to observe SZ Effect from ground" M. de Petris (Roma, Italy)

16h25 - 16h45 (15+5)    "The use of SZ with high angular resolution" Steen Hansen (Zurich, Swizerland)

16h45 - 17h                    "High-resolution SZE observations of  RX J1347.5-1145" Tetsu Kitayama (Tohoku, Japan)

17h - 18h        Discussion

Friday, April 8th 2005

High Resolution Numerical Simulations:

9h30 - 9h50 (15+5)    "The use of ALMA Band 1 for SZE" Steven T. Myers (NRAO, USA)

9h50 - 10h10 (15+5)    "CLEF simulation" Scott Kay (Oxford, UK)

10h10 - 10h30 (15+5)    "SZ results - theCLEF simulation" Antonio da Silva (IAS, France)

10h30 - 10h50 (15+5)    "Using High Resolution Simulations" Lauro Moscardini (Bologna, Italy)

10h50 - 11h10        Coffee Break

Extracting clusters from surveys:

11h10 - 11h30 (15+5)    "Extracting SZ clusters from the Planck maps" Bjorn  Schaefer (MPA, Germany)

11h30 - 11h50 (15+5)    "Unbiased matched multifilters for the detection of the kinematic SZ" Diego Herranz (Santander, Spain)

11h50 - 12h10 (15+5)    "Selection Effects in SZ Surveys" Jim Bartlett (CDF, France)

12h10 - 13h10        Discussion

13h10 - 14h15        Lunch Break

Science with SZ clusters:

14h15 - 14h35 (15+5)    "Non-thermal and relativistic SZ effects" Sergio Colafrancesco (Roma, Italy)

14h35 - 14h55 (15+5)    "Unveiling the composition of radio plasma bubbles in galaxy clusters with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect" Christoph Pfrommer (MPA, Germany)

14h55 - 15h25 (25+5)    "Extracting clusters and determining the selection function for SZ surveys"  Jean-Baptiste Melin (UC Davis, USA)

15h25 - 15h55 (15+5)    "Non Gaussian aspects" Joseph Silk (Oxford, UK)

15h55 - 16h10 (15)    "ICM Entropy from Resolved SZ Observations" A. Lapi (Trieste, Italy) & A. Cavaliere (Roma, Italy)

16h10 - 16h25 (15)    "Kinetic SZ effect from galaxy cluster rotation" Jens Chluba (MPA, Germany)

16h25 -    17h45        Final Discussion

Participants

Monique Arnaud (Saclay, France)       
Jim Bartlett (CDF, France)   
Kaustuv Basu (MPIfR/RAIUB Bonn) 
Alexandre Beleen (MPIfR, Bonn)
Frank Bertoldi (MPIfR, Germany)       
Mark Birkinshaw (Bristol, UK)       
Herve Bourdin (Roma, Italy)
Malcom Bremer (Bristol, UK)       
John Carlstrom (Chicago, USA)       
Andrea Catalano (LERMA, Paris)
Alfonso Cavaliere (Roma, Italy)      
Jens Chluba (MPA, Germany)       
S. Colafrancesco (Roma, Italy)
Alain Coulais (LERMA, Paris)  
Tom Culverhouse (Cambridge, UK) 
Marian Douspis (Toulouse, France)   
Michel Guelin (IRAM, France)           
Steen Hansen (Zurich, Swizerland)   
Diego Herranz (Santander, Spain)   
Cathy Horellou (Onsala, Sweden)       
Gert Huetsi (MPA, Germany)       
Scott Kay (Oxford, UK)           
Tetsu Kitayama (Tohoku, Japan)       
Rudiger Kneissl (UC Berkeley, USA)   
Robert Laing (ESO, Germany)       
Andrea Lapi (Trieste, Italy)       
Anthony Lasenby (Cambridge, UK)           
G.-C. Liu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)   
Roberto Maoli (Roma, Italy) 
Pasquale Mazzotta (Roma, Italy)       
Jean-Baptiste Melin (Davis, USA)
Garry Mamon (IAP, Paris)
Lauro Moscardini (Bologna, Italy)   
Steven T. Myers (NRAO) 
Doris Neumann (CEA, Saclay)       
Alain Omont (IAP, France)       
Marco De Petris (Roma, Italy) 
Christoph Pfrommer (MPA, Germany)   
Etienne Pointecouteau (Oxford, UK)   
Nicolas Ponthieu (IAS, France)       
Jose-Luis Sanz (Santander, Spain)   
Richard Saunders (Cambridge, UK)   
Bjoern Schaefer (MPA, Germany)       
Joseph Silk (Oxford, UK)       
Antonio da Silva (IAS, France)       
Francois Viallefond (LERMA, France)   
Dominique Yvon (CEA, France)       
Jonathan Zwart (Cambridge, UK)       


Organizers and contact

Nabila Aghanim & Pierre Cox


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