Cosmic Background Anisotropy Induced by Isotropic Flat-Spectrum Gravitational-Wave Perturbations
Cosmic Background Anisotropy Induced by Isotropic Flat-Spectrum Gravitational-Wave Perturbations
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1985-05
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A. A. Starobinskii-A.
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A. A. Starobinskii-A.
A calculation is made of the temperature anisotropy that would be produced in the cosmic microwave background by an isotropic, stochastic ensemble of primordial gravitational waves having a flat initial spectrum. On angular scales THETA > 2 the anisotropy autocorrelation function has practically the same multipole dependence as previously established for the case of flat-spectrum adiabatic perturbations, while on scales THETA < 1 the anisotropy becomes insignificant. Upper limits are placed on the gravitational-wave amplitude and on the expected quadrupole anisotropy.