The SZ effect with anisotropic distributions and high energy electrons

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Future observations of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect promise ever improving measurements in terms of both sensitivity and angular resolution.

• As such, it is increasingly relevant to model `higher-order' contributions to the SZ effect.
• This work examines the effects of high-energy non-thermal electron distributions and those of anisotropic electron and photon distributions on the SZ signals.
• Analytic forms of the anisotropic scattering kernels for photons and electrons have been derived and investigated.