Mark Birkinshaw
Professor
Department of Physics
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
Biography
Mark Birkinshaw is Professor i n Department of Physics University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Research Interest
He contained within it, using both observation and theory. He is particularly known for making the first detections of the change in brightness of the microwave background radiation caused by inverse-Compton scattering in clusters of galaxies (the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect), and in demonstrating how this effect can be used to measure cosmological parameters.
Publications
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Geach, JE, Dunlop, JS, Halpern, M, Smail, I, Werf, Pvd, Alexander, DM, Almaini, O, Aretxaga, I, Arumugam, V, Asboth, V, Banerji, M, Beanlands, J, Best, PN, Blain, AW, Birkinshaw, M, Chapin, EL, Chapman, SC, Chen, C-C, Chrysostomou, A, Clarke, C, Clements, DL, Conselice, C, Coppin, KEK, Cowley, WI, Danielson, ALR, Eales, S, Edge, AC, Farrah, D, Gibb, A, Harrison, CM, Hine, NK, Hughes, D, Ivison, RJ, Jarvis, M, Jenness, T, Jones, SF, Karim, A, Koprowski, M, Knudsen, KK, Lacey, CG & others 2017, ‘The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: 850um maps, catalogues and number counts’. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol 465., pp. 1789-1806
