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First the second-order perturbations of nonzero-\Lambda cosmological models are derived with an arbitrary potential function of spatial coordinates, using the nonlinear version of Lifshitz's method in the synchronous gauge. Their expression…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kenji Tomita

A new method is proposed for modelling spherically symmetric inhomogeneities in the Universe. The inhomogeneities have finite size and are compensated, so they do not exert any measurable gravitational force beyond their boundary. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. N. Lasenby , C. J. L. Doran , M. P. Hobson , Y. Dabrowski , A. D. Challinor

We develop a new method to reconstruct the power spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations, $P(k)$, by using both the temperature and polarization spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We test this method using several mock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Noriyuki Kogo , Misao Sasaki , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We develop a systematic and unified approach to estimate all possible secondary (i.e. non-primordial) nonlinear effects to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization, named curve-of-sight integration approach. In this approach, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Toshiya Namikawa , Atsushi Naruko , Ryo Saito , Atsushi Taruya , Daisuke Yamauchi

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies measurements can provide many clues about the Universe. Although the common belief is that they will allow a very precise measurement of the cosmological parameters (that is, the current…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alain Riazuelo , David Langlois

The existence of stars and galaxies reqires cosmological models with an inhomogeneous matter and radiation distribution. But in these models the initial singularity surface t_0(r) is in general homogeneous (independent of r). In this second…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. Schneider , M. N. Celerier

We present a new method for calculating linear cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy spectra based on integration over sources along the photon past light cone. In this approach the temperature anisotropy is written as a time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Uros Seljak , Matias Zaldarriaga

We consider the hypothesis that nonlocal, omnidirectional, causally-coherent quantum entanglement of inflationary horizons may account for some well-known measured anomalies of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy on large angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Craig Hogan , Stephan S. Meyer

This paper is concerned with the inverse spectral problem for the third-order differential equation with distribution coefficient. The inverse problem consists in the recovery of the differential expression coefficients from the spectral…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Natalia P. Bondarenko

The primordial anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are linearly polarized via Compton-scattering. The Faraday conversion process during the propagation of polarized CMB photons through regions of the large-scale structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-05 Asantha Cooray , Alessandro Melchiorri , Joseph Silk

A new numerical method to solve an inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation involving the absorption and scattering terms, with incomplete data, is proposed. No restrictive assumption on those absorption and scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Alexey V. Smirnov , Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen

Two main aims of this paper are to develop a numerical method to solve an inverse source problem for parabolic equations and apply it to solve a nonlinear coefficient inverse problem. The inverse source problem in this paper is the problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Phuong Mai Nguyen , Loc Hoang Nguyen

This paper is concerned with the direct and inverse random source scattering problems for elastic waves where the source is assumed to be driven by an additive white noise. Given the source, the direct problem is to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Gang Bao , Chuchu Chen , Peijun Li

We develop and examine the principles governing the formation of distortions in the cosmic microwave background. Distortions in the frequency or spectral distribution of the background probe the thermal history of the universe whereas those…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 Wayne Hu

The paper studies inverse problems of determining unknown coefficients in various semi-linear and quasi-linear wave equations. We introduce a method to solve inverse problems for non-linear equations using interaction of three waves, that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Ali Feizmohammadi , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen

Anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation due to gravity waves are investigated. An initial spectrum of gravity waves may have been induced during an epoch of inflation. We study the propagation of such a spectrum in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Ruth Durrer , Tina Kahniashvili

In this paper, we consider the inverse scattering problem for recovering either an isotropic or anisotropic scatterer from the measured scattered field initiated by a point source. We propose two new imaging functionals for solving the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Isaac Harris , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Thi-Phong Nguyen

Consider the inverse random source scattering problem for the two-dimensional time-harmonic elastic wave equation with an inhomogeneous, anisotropic mass density. The source is modeled as a microlocally isotropic generalized Gaussian random…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Jianliang Li , Peijun Li

Weak lensing distortion of the background cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization patterns by the foreground density fluctuations is well studied in the literature. We discuss the gravitational lensing modification to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chao Li , Asantha Cooray

The main aim of this paper is to solve an inverse source problem for a general nonlinear hyperbolic equation. Combining the quasi-reversibility method and a suitable Carleman weight function, we define a map of which fixed point is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Loc H. Nguyen , Michael V. Klibanov