The Full Second-Order Radiation Transfer Function for Large-Scale CMB Anisotropies
Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We calculate the full second-order radiation transfer function for Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies on large angular scales in a flat universe filled with matter and cosmological constant. It includes (i) the second-order generalization of the Sachs-Wolfe effect, and of (ii) both the early and late Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effects, (iii) the contribution of the second-order tensor modes, and is valid for a generic set of initial conditions specifying the level of primordial non-Gaussianity.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0512481,
title = {The Full Second-Order Radiation Transfer Function for Large-Scale CMB Anisotropies},
author = {N. Bartolo and S. Matarrese and A. Riotto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0512481},
year = {2009}
}
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30 pages, LaTeX file