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Gravitational Lensing and Anisotropies of CBR on the Small Angular Scales

Astrophysics 2015-06-24 v1

Abstract

We investigate the effect of gravitational lensing, produced by linear density perturbations, for anisotropies of the Cosmic Background Radiation (CBR) on scales of arcminutes. In calculations, a flat universe (Ω=1\Omega=1) and the Harrison-Zel'dovich spectrum (n=1n=1) are assumed. The numerical results show that on scales of a few arcminutes, gravitational lensing produces only negligible anisotropies in the temperature of the CBR. Our conclusion disagrees with that of Cay\'{o}n {\it et al.} who argue that the amplification of ΔT/T\Delta T/T on scales 3\le 3' may even be larger than 100\%.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9506102,
  title  = {Gravitational Lensing and Anisotropies of CBR on the Small Angular Scales},
  author = {J. M. Liu and J. G. Gao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9506102},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Accepted by MNRAS. 16 pages, 2 figures, tarred, compressed and uuencoded Postscript files