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OATS-UNI/TS SEMINAR
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Speaker: Elena Pierpaoli (University of Southern California, USA)

Title: From Planck to Euclid: cosmology from current and future surveys of galaxy clusters
Date: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
Time: 11:30
Venue: Villa Bazzoni
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Abstract Recent surveys allow to study and characterize clusters in different wavebands. The Planck collaboration just released the largest catalog of Sunyaev Zeldovich (SZ) clusters as well as the first map of the unresolved SZ signal. Planck maps also contain information on clusters' peculiar velocities, and therefore provide an additional way to test the standard cosmological model with clusters. I'll review current cosmological constraints obtained from Planck data and discuss possible future use of the released maps. Current optical surveys contain thousands of objects, and even better results are expected from future missions. I'll discuss current results from optical surveys, how these relate to observations in other wavebands, and what could be learned from multi-wavelength studies.
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Contact: Valentina D'Odorico (OATs)