Cosmic
Microwave Background| Cosmic
Microwave Background |
In General > s.a. observational
cosmology; topological defects.
* History: 1965, Discovered
by Penzias and Wilson of Bell Labs; 1992, Anisotropy reported by COBE with 
7°;
1996, Plans for experiments down to 10';
1999, plans for MAP and Planck orbiting detectors; 2000, Boomerang maps with
50 
l 600
support inflation and flat space; 2001, Boomerang and DASI data show second
and third peaks
in angular
distributions; 2003, WMAP blows everybody away; 2006, WMAP 3-year results,
and plans for Planck.
* Temperature: Value T =
2.726 K, according to COBE results [@ news pn(93)jan], spectrum exactly like
a blackbody spectrum.
@ General references: Alpher & Herman Nat(48)nov;
Penzias RMP(79);
Wilson RMP(79);
Ehrlich AJP(92);
de Bernardis et al Nat(00)apr;
Caldwell &
Kamionkowski SA(01)jan; Cooray ap/02-in
[future]; Bock et al ap/06-rp
[task force report]; Chluba & Sunyaev a0707-A&A
[temperature uncertainty and ionization history]; Tristram & Ganga RPP(07)-a0708 [data
analysis].
@ Books: Lemonick 03 [WMAP, I]; Lachièze-Rey & Gunzig 99
[I]; Naselsky et al 06 [r CQG(07)];
Giovannini 08 [primer].
@ Intros, reviews: Steinhardt IJMPA(95);
Lasenby et al PTRS(99)ap/98 [observations];
Lawrence et al PASP(99)ap/98;
Barreiro NAR(00)ap/99;
Smoot ap/99-in
[COBE]; Lineweaver ap/99-in;
Dodelson IJMPA(00);
Gawiser & Silk PRP(00)ap;
Kosowsky ap/01-ln;
Miller ap/01-in;
Page ap/02-in;
Silk AIHP(03)ap/02;
Wright ap/04-ln;
Scott & Smoot in PLB(04)ap;
Lin & Wandelt APP(06)ap/04;
Scott & Smoot ap/06-rp;
Souradeep IJMPD(06)ap;
Giovannini IJMPA(07)ap-ln;
Silk JPA(07);
Hu a0802-ln; Samtleben
et al ARNPS(07)-a0803.
@ WMAP and other missions:
Bennett et al SA(01)jan, ApJS(03)ap,
ApJS(03)ap;
Spergel et al ApJS(03)ap;
Fosalba & Szapudi ApJL(04)ap;
Spergel et al ap/06/ApJ
[3-year results]; Planck Collaboration ap/06 [program];
Balbi NAR(07)ap/06
[Planck]; Komatsu et al a0803 +
news pw(08)mar
[5-year results].
@ Detection, analysis:
de Oliveira-Costa et al PRD(05)
[atmospheric effects]; White ap/06-in
[future Planck mission].
@ Other opinions: Navia et al a0707 [origin in local supercluster].
@ Related topics: Caldwell & Stebbins PRL(08)-a0711 [Copernican
principle / privileged location].
Polarization > s.a. dark
matter.
* Values: Linear polarization
10–6 (DASI
2002); Characterized by Stokes parameters S0 or
I = (Tx + Ty)/2,
S1 or Q = (Tx – Ty)/2,
S2 or U,
and S2 or S3 or U.
* Significance: Related to anisotropy, but it is a signature of the
motion of the primordial seeds that led to the large-scale structure observed
today,
and gives a different combination of information on physical parameters,
including
the presence of gravitational waves.
@ Reviews: Challinor ap/05-ln;
Hedman AS(05)may;
Bartlett ap/06-in;
news pw(06)may;
Balbi et al ap/06-in.
@ General references: Kamionkowski et al PRD(97)
[stats];
Guzik et al PRD(00)ap/99;
Bunn PRD(02)ap/01 [detectability];
Balbi et
al ap/01-in;
Cooray PRD(02)ap [lensing],
et al PLB(03)ap/02 [circular?];
Gangui ap/03-in
[and topological defects]; Cabella & Kamionkowski ap/04-in
[theory]; Abramo & Xavier ap/06 [and
primordial matter distribution]; Rocher et al JCAP(07)
[and inflation].
@ Detection: Zaldarriaga & Seljak PRD(97)
[analysis]; Kovac et al Nat(02)ap;
Gangui
Sci(03)ap;
Page et al ap/06/ApJ
[WMAP 3-year data]; Ralston & Jain ap/06 [classification
of observables]; Samtleben et QUIET a0802-in.
@ And gravitational waves: Kesden
et al PRL(02)ap;
Zhang
et al PRD(06)ap/05;
Keating et al IJMPA(06)ap;
Baskaran et al PRD(06)gq;
Grishchuk a0707-in.
@ Faraday rotation: Scóccola et al PRD(04)ap;
Kosowsky et al PRD(05)
[stochastic B]; Ni a0712-in.
Other Effects and Properties > s.a. anisotropy;
black hole types [primordial]; quantum
gravity phenomenology;
susy phenomenology.
* Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect:
A spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background due to hot gas in
galaxy clusters, by which the spectrum is shfted towards higher energies;
The main example of cluster in which it is seen is the
Coma cluster.
@ Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect: Birkinshaw PRP(99);
Ma & Fry PRL(02)ap/01;
Refregier & Teyssier
PRD(02)
[large-scale]; Carlstrom et al ARAA(02)ap;
Huffenberger
et al PRD(04)ap [WMAP
and cosmological parameters]; Rephaeli et al ap/05-in
[rev]; news space(06)sep
[claim of smaller effect than expected in nearby clusters].
@ And hep/quantum gravity: Kamionkowski & Kosowsky ARNPS(99)ap;
Signore & Puy
ap/01-in
[dark energy]; Bergström & Danielsson JHEP(02);
Hogan AS(02);
Kaloper et al PRD(02)ht;
Brandenberger & Martin IJMPA(02)ht;
Shiu & Wasserman PLB(02)ht;
Elgarøy & Hannestad PRD(03);
Sriramkumar & Padmanabhan PRD(05)
[vs initial conditions]; Easther et al JCAP(05);
Queisser et al CQG(07)gq/06;
Challinor ap/06-in;
Danielsson ap/06 [possible
signature at 2.2 
10–5 MP];
> s.a. anisotropy.
@ And gravitation: Noh ap/02-in
[R2
gravity]; Nagata et al PRD(04)ap/03 [scalar-tensor
and dG/dt]; Pritchard & Kamionkowski AP(05)ap/04 [and
inflationary gravitational waves]; Boucher G&C(05)ap [
G and
equivalence principle violations]; Li & Chu PRD(06)ap,
Li et al ap/06 [f(R)].
@ Weak lensing: Amblard et al NA(04)ap; Lewis
& Challinor PRP(06); > s.a. lensing.
@ Ellipticity: Gurzadyan
et
al NCB(03)ap/04 [spot
ellipticity], PLA(07)ap/06 [and
large-scale structure].
@ Other effects: Fischler et al JHEP(03)ht [entropy
and acceleration]; Jaffe et al ApJ(05)ap,
comment Palle ap/05 [vorticity],
Hsu & Zee MPLA(06)phy/05
["message
in the sky"]; Burles & Rappaport ap/06/ApJL
[aberration]; Peacock a0705 [anthropic
predictions]; Babich et al a0705 [Kuiper
Belt and inner Oort Cloud objects]; Zibin et al PRD(07)-a0706 [evolution].
> Other effects: see arrow
of time; astronomical
objects [magnetic fields]; equivalence
principle.
> In other models: see bianchi
models; branes; inflation; modified
lorentz symmetry and phenomenology; perturbations; strings.
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