Some Aspects of Inverse Compton Emission from 3K Background Photons

Abstract

We review the history and a few features of IC/3K emission. We discuss observing strategies, the physical parameters which can be derived directly or indirectly from successful detections, and the disparities between magnetic field strength estimates found by different methods.

4 pages latex with one embedded figure.Published in MPE Report 271, October 1999, page 219. Proceedings of the Ringberg workshop: "Diffuse Thermal and Relativistic Plasma in Galaxy Clusters", editors H. Böhringer, L. Feretti, and P. Schuecker