To appear in Background Microwave Radiation and Intracluster Cosmology, Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Eds. Melchiorri, F. & Rephaeli, Y., 2004
astro-ph/0410336

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Table of Contents

• SINGLE-DISH AND INTERFEROMETRIC OBSERVATIONS
• Radiometric quantities
• Single-dish techniques
• Single-dish problems
• Example single-dish results
• Interferometric techniques
• Interferometric problems
• Example interferometer results
• SYSTEMATIC ERRORS AND THE SCIENCE RETURN FROM SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT STUDIES
• Cluster energetics
• Cluster baryon count
• Cluster gas structure
• Cluster mass distribution
• Cluster radial peculiar velocity
• Cluster Hubble diagram
• Blind surveys and number counts
• Baryon mass fraction evolution
• Microwave background temperature
• Cluster formation studies
• Transverse velocities
• A CASE STUDY: CL 0016+16
• X-ray data
• SZ data
• Distance of CL 0016+16
• Lensing and the SZ effect
• NEXT STEPS
• OCRA
• AMiBA
• The future: the ISZO
• Summary
• REFERENCES