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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 558, 期 1, 页码 23-28出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1086/322482
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cosmic microwave background; cosmology : theory; scattering
During the recombination epoch, cosmic background photons coupled not only to free electrons through Thompson scattering, but also to neutral hydrogen through Rayleigh scattering. This latter is a similar to2% effect for photons near the peak of the photon energy distribution at z = 800 and a similar to0.2% effect at z = 1100. Including Rayleigh scattering in the calculation reduces Silk damping at fixed redshift, alters the position of the surface of last scattering, and alters the propagation of acoustic waves. We estimate the amplitude of these effects. For the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP), Rayleigh scattering increases the anisotropy spectrum by 0.1% at the most. For the highest frequencies of the Planck Surveyor, the effects of Rayleigh scattering are much more dramatic (decreasing the anisotropy spectrum by 3% at v similar to 550 GHz and multipole number l similar to 1000). The relative difference between the spectra of low and high frequencies is imposed by an oscillation with a function of multipole l, and the oscillation amplitude is up to 0.5% between 100 and 550 GHz. Rayleigh scattering also slows the decoupling between radiation and matter, but the effect is undetectably small.
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