The radiative transfer for polarized radiation at second order in cosmological perturbations
Astrophysics
2009-12-03 v2
Abstract
This article investigates the full Boltzmann equation up to second order in the cosmological perturbations. Describing the distribution of polarized radiation by using a tensor valued distribution function, the second order Boltzmann equation, including polarization, is derived without relying on the Stokes parameters.
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@article{arxiv.0809.3245,
title = {The radiative transfer for polarized radiation at second order in cosmological perturbations},
author = {Cyril Pitrou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.3245},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, no figure; replaced to match published version