Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/10/026
Keywords
CMBR polarisation; CMBR theory; reionization; Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Funding
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office through the Inter-university Attraction Pole [P7/37]
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Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) can be induced during the later stages of cosmic evolution, and in particular during and after the Epoch of Reionisation. Inhomogeneities in the ionised fraction, but also in the baryon density, in the velocity fields and in the gravitational potentials are expected to generate correlated CMB perturbations. We present a complete relativistic treatment of all these effects, up to second order in perturbation theory, that we solve using the numerical Boltzmann code Song. The physical origin and relevance of all second order terms are carefully discussed. In addition to collisional and gravitational contributions, we identify the diffuse analogue of the blurring and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects. Our approach naturally includes the correlations between the imprint from patchy reionisation and the diffuse SZ effects thereby allowing us to derive reliable estimates of the induced temperature and polarisation CMB angular power spectra. In particular, we show that the B-modes generated at intermediate length-scales (l similar or equal to 100) have the same amplitude as the B-modes coming from primordial gravitational waves with a tensor-to-scalar ratio r = 10(-4).
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