Wednesday, February 27, 2013

1302.6553 (Rashid A. Sunyaev et al.)

Unavoidable CMB spectral features and blackbody photosphere of our
Universe
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Rashid A. Sunyaev, Rishi Khatri
Spectral features in CMB energy spectrum contain a wealth of information about the physical processes in the early Universe, z < 2 x 10^6. The CMB spectral distortions are complementary to all other probes of cosmology. In fact, most of the information contained in CMB spectrum is inaccessible by any other means. This review outlines the main physics behind the spectral features in CMB throughout the history of the Universe, concentrating on the distortions which are inevitable and must be present at a level observable by the next generation of proposed CMB experiments. The spectral distortions considered here include spectral features from cosmological recombination, resonant scattering of CMB by metals during reionization which allows us to measure their abundances, y-type distortions during and after reionization and \mu-type and i-type (intermediate between \mu and y) distortions created at redshifts z > 1.5 x 10^4.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6553

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