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The injection of secondary particles produced by Dark Matter (DM) annihilation at redshift 100<z<1000 affects the process of recombination, leaving an imprint on Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. Here we provide a new…

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In this work we investigate the effects of the primordial magnetic fields on cosmic microwave background anisotropies (CMB). Based on cosmological magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations we calculate the CMB anisotropy spectra and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Naoshi Sugiyama , Robi Banerjee

We study the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies produced by cosine-type quintessence models. In our analysis, effects of the adiabatic and isocurvature fluctuations are both taken into account. For purely adiabatic fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Masahiro Kawasaki , Takeo Moroi , Tomo Takahashi

Cosmic Reionization imprints its signature on the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Advances in CMB telescopes have already placed a significant constraint on the history of reionization. As…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Hina Sakamoto , Kyungjin Ahn , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Hyunjin Moon , Kenji Hasegawa

We discuss the effect of matter reionization on the large-angular-scale anisotropy and polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) in the standard CDM model. We separate three cases in which the anisotropy is induced by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Ka Lok Ng , Kin-Wang Ng , 19 pages , latex , 10 figures , available upon request

In this paper we present a complete computation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies up to third order from gravitational perturbations accounting for scalar, vector and tensor perturbations. We then specify our results to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. D'Amico , N. Bartolo , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

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

We provide an analytical approach to the second-order Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies generated by the non-linear dynamics taking place at last scattering. We study the acoustic oscillations of the photon-baryon fluid in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese , Antonio Riotto

High-precision measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) will soon allow for the unprecedented detection of small-scale secondary anisotropies, such as the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. Linking the kSZ power spectrum…

Non-linear evolution of density fluctuations yields secondary anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which are correlated with the same density fluctuations that can be measured by weak lensing (WL) surveys. We study the…

We study the constraints that future multifrequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments will be able to set on the metal enrichment history of the Inter Galactic Medium at the epoch of reionisation. We forecast the signal to noise…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Licia Verde , Raul Jimenez

The Planck mission has conclusively detected lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation from foreground sources to an overall significance of greater than $25\sigma$. The high precision of this measurement motivates the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 S. -C. Su , Eugene A. Lim

Dark Matter (DM) annihilation and decay during the Dark Ages can affect the cosmic ionization history and leave imprints in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy spectra. CMB polarization anisotropy can be sensitive to such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Junsong Cang , Yu Gao , Yin-Zhe Ma

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) serves as a backlight to large-scale structure during the epoch of reionization, where Thomson scattering gives rise to temperature anisotropies on small angular scales from the kinetic Sunyaev…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-21 Selim C. Hotinli , Matthew C. Johnson

The advent of high resolution cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments now allows studies on the temperature fluctuations at scales corresponding to few arcminutes and below. Though the reported excess power at $\ell \sim 2000 - 6000$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asantha Cooray , Alessandro Melchiorri

The analysis of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has become an extremely valuable tool for cosmology. We even have hopes that planned CMB anisotropy experiments may revolutionize cosmology. Together with determinations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Ruth Durrer

The injection of secondary particles produced by Dark Matter (DM) annihilation around redshift 1000 would inevitably affect the process of recombination, leaving an imprint on Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies and polarization.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Galli , F. Iocco , G. Bertone , A. Melchiorri

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies have and will continue to revolutionize our understanding of cosmology. The recent discovery of the previously predicted acoustic peaks in the power spectrum has established a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Wayne Hu , Scott Dodelson

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) is an invaluable probe of the conditions of the early universe. Recent measurements of its spatial anisotropy have allowed accurate determinations of several fundamental cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Christopher O'Dell

We present a fast, arbitrarily accurate method to simulate the effect of gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies and polarization fields by large scale structures. We demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-12 S. Basak , S. Prunet , K. Benabed