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Angular fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background owing to initial perturbations in the radiation temperature. / Grachev, S. I.
In: Astrophysics, Vol. 50, No. 4, 10.2007, p. 515-524.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Angular fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background owing to initial perturbations in the radiation temperature
AU - Grachev, S. I.
N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by RFFI (Russian Foundation for Basic Research) grants No. 05-02-16658 and 06-02- Copyright: Copyright 2007 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/10
Y1 - 2007/10
N2 - A new method is proposed to account for multiple scattering by electrons in calculations of the correlation functions describing the angular fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR). The apparatus of the theory of radiative transport with Rayleigh scattering is used. The problem is reduced to solving an integral equation for the vector source function (dependent only on time), along with differential equations for the other quantities (scalar potentials, baryon velocities, etc.) which show up in the problem. The quantities which describe the angular fluctuations in the CMBR (in the temperature and in the polarization) are then calculated by integrating the vector source function along the line of sight. As an illustration, the correlation functions and power spectra are calculated for the case where the fluctuations are produced by some initial gaussian perturbations of the CMBR.
AB - A new method is proposed to account for multiple scattering by electrons in calculations of the correlation functions describing the angular fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR). The apparatus of the theory of radiative transport with Rayleigh scattering is used. The problem is reduced to solving an integral equation for the vector source function (dependent only on time), along with differential equations for the other quantities (scalar potentials, baryon velocities, etc.) which show up in the problem. The quantities which describe the angular fluctuations in the CMBR (in the temperature and in the polarization) are then calculated by integrating the vector source function along the line of sight. As an illustration, the correlation functions and power spectra are calculated for the case where the fluctuations are produced by some initial gaussian perturbations of the CMBR.
KW - Cosmic microwave background radiation
KW - Cosmology
KW - Early universe
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=36749040416&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10511-007-0047-1
DO - 10.1007/s10511-007-0047-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:36749040416
VL - 50
SP - 515
EP - 524
JO - Astrophysics
JF - Astrophysics
SN - 0571-7256
IS - 4
ER -
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