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When a light scalar field is present during inflation, its value will vary on superhorizon scales, modulating the preheating process at the end of inflation. Consequently, the amplitude of the gravitational wave (GW) background produced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Laura Bethke , Daniel G. Figueroa , Arttu Rajantie

Evolved late-type stars are frequently identified as photometric and spectroscopic variables, such as Mira-type or semi-regular variable objects. These stars can also be polarimetrically variable, an indicator of non-spherical geometry for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 R Ignace , C Erba , K DeGennaro , G Henson

We estimate the Stokes wave starting power for stimulated thermal Rayleigh scattering (STRS) produced by thermal fluctuations in the fiber core that transiently alter the refractive index profile in the core. A transverse temperature…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-05 Arlee V. Smith , Jesse J. Smith

Quantum correlations in four-wave-mixing from ensembles of cold two-level atoms may prevail without filtering over background light with well-known classical interpretations, such as Rayleigh scattering, as recently experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Lucas S. Marinho , Michelle O. Araújo , Daniel Felinto

The scattering of electromagnetic radiation by the particle gyrating in an external magnetic field is considered. Particular attention is paid to the low-frequency case, when the frequencies of incident radiation are much less than the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova

The delay in light travel time along the line of sight generates an anisotropy in the power spectrum of 21cm brightness fluctuations from the epoch of reionization. We show that when the fluctuations in the neutral hydrogen fraction become…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rennan Barkana , Abraham Loeb

Linear alkylbenzene (LAB) is adopted to be the organic solvent for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) liquid scintillator detectors due to the ultra-transparency. However the current Rayleigh scattering length calculation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 Qian Liu , Xiang Zhou , Wenqian Huang , Yuning Zhang , Wenjie Wu , Wentai Luo , Miao Yu , Yangheng Zheng , Li Zhou , Jun Cao , Yifang Wang

We re-examine scattering of photons near the Lyman-alpha resonance in the intergalactic medium (IGM). We first derive a general integral solution for the radiation field around resonance when spin diffusivity is ignored. Our solution shows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Steven Furlanetto , Jonathan R. Pritchard

Waves scattered by a weakly inhomogeneous random medium contain a predominant single scattering contribution as well as a multiple scattering contribution which is usually neglected, especially for imaging purposes. A method based on random…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Alexandre Aubry , Arnaud Derode

The scattering of quasiperiodic waves for a two-dimensional Helmholtz equation with a constant refractive index perturbed by a function which is periodic in one direction and of finite support in the other is considered. The scattering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 P. Zhevandrov , A. Merzon , M. I. Romero Rodríguez , J. E. de la Paz Méndez

When a pump beam is propagating through a silicon nanophotonic waveguide, a very small fraction of the light is scattered to other frequencies. At very low intensity, the amount of scattered light is proportional to the power of the pump…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. Clemmen , A. Perret , J. Saffioui , W. Bogaerts , R. Baets , S. -P. Gorza , Ph. Emplit , S. Massar

We estimate the contribution of extragalactic radio sources to fluctuations in sky temperature over the range of frequencies (10-300 GHz) used for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy measurements. CMB anisotropy observations at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Sokasian , Eric Gawiser , George F. Smoot

The Lyman-alpha absorption systems observed in the spectra of QSOs are likely to possess bulk peculiar velocities. The free electrons in these systems scatter the microwave background and distort its spectrum through the kinematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Abraham Loeb

We have studied the angular fluctuations in the speed of light with respect to the apex of the dipole of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation using the experimental data obtained with GRAAL facility, located at the European…

In this paper we show how the rescattering of CMB photons after cosmic reionization can give a significant linear contribution to the temperature-matter cross-correlation measurements. These anisotropies, which arise via a late time Doppler…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tommaso Giannantonio , Robert Crittenden

Precise measurements are performed on spectral lineshapes of spontaneous Rayleigh-Brillouin scattering in mixtures of the noble gases Ar and Kr, with He. Admixture of a light He atomic fraction results in marked changes of the spectra,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-22 Ziyu Gu , Wim Ubachs , Willem van de Water , Wilson Marques

We present the results of both analytical and numerical calculations of the amplitude of the reflection component in X-ray spectra of galactic black hole systems. We take into account the anisotropy of Compton scattering and the systematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny , Piotr T. Zycki

Observations of the microwave sky using the Python telescope in its fifth season of operation at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica are presented. The system consists of a 0.75 m off-axis telescope instrumented with a HEMT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kimberly Ann Coble

We demonstrate the measurement of nanoparticle shape by angularly resolved Rayleigh scattering of single optical levitated particles that are oriented in space via the trapping light in vacuum. This technique is applied to a range of…

Scattering by particles significantly smaller than the wavelength is an important physical process in the rocky bodies in our solar system and beyond. A number of observations of spectral bluing (referred to in those papers as "Rayleigh…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-22 Adrian J. Brown