Cosmological perturbations at second order and recombination perturbed
Cosmological perturbations at second order and recombination perturbed
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二阶宇宙学扰动和重组扰动
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发表时间:
2008
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通讯作者:
M. Zaldarriaga
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作者:
L. Senatore;S. Tassev;M. Zaldarriaga
We derive the full set of second-order equations governing the evolution of cosmological perturbations, including the effects of the first-order electron number density perturbations, δe. We provide a detailed analysis of the perturbations to the recombination history of the universe and show that a perturbed version of the Peebles effective 3-level atom is sufficient for obtaining the evolution of δe for comoving wavenumbers smaller than 1 Mpc−1. We calculate rigorously the perturbations to the Lyα escape probability and show that to a good approximation it is governed by the local baryon velocity divergence. For modes longer than the photon diffusion scale, we find that δe is enhanced during recombination by a factor of roughly 5 relative to other first-order quantities sourcing the CMB anisotropies at second order. Using these results, in a companion paper we calculate the CMB bispectrum generated during recombination.
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8.7
作者:
Komatsu, E.;Smith, K. M.;Wright, E. L.
通讯作者:
Wright, E. L.