Complete treatment of CMB anisotropies in a FRW universe

Wayne Hu, Uroš Seljak, Martin White, and Matias Zaldarriaga
Phys. Rev. D 57, 3290 – Published 15 March 1998
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Abstract

We generalize the total angular momentum method for computing cosmic microwave background anisotropies to Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) spaces with arbitrary geometries. This unifies the treatment of temperature and polarization anisotropies generated by scalar, vector and tensor perturbations of the fluid, seed, or a scalar field, in a universe with constant comoving curvature. The resulting formalism generalizes and simplifies the calculation of anisotropies and, in its integral form, allows for a fast calculation of model predictions in linear theory for any FRW metric.

  • Received 10 September 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.57.3290

©1998 American Physical Society

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Wayne Hu1, Uroš Seljak2, Martin White3, and Matias Zaldarriaga4

  • 1Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
  • 2Harvard Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
  • 3Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
  • 4Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

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Vol. 57, Iss. 6 — 15 March 1998

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