Limits on hot intracluster gas contributions to the Tenerife temperature anisotropy map

We limit the contribution of the hot intracluster gas, by means of the Suny aev-Zeldovich effect, to the temperature anisotropies measured by the Tener ife experiment. The data are cross-correlated with maps generated from the ACO cluster catalog, the ROSAT PSPC catalog of clusters of galaxies, a cata log of superclusters and the HEAO 1 A-1 map of X-ray sources. There is no e vidence of contamination by such sources at an rms level of similar to 8 mu K at the 99% confidence level at 5 degrees angular resolution. We place an upper limit on the mean Comptonization parameter of gamma less than or equ al to 1.5 x 10(-6) at the same level of confidence. These limits are slight ly more restrictive than those previously found by a similar analysis on th e COBE/DMR data and indicate that most of the signal measured by Tenerife i s cosmological.