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, from COBE results [@ news pn(93)jan];
The spectrum looks exactly like a blackbody spectrum.
@ General references: Alpher & Herman Nat(48)nov;
Penzias RMP(79);
Wilson RMP(79);
Ehrlich AJP(92)jun;
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 A&A(08)-a0707
[temperature uncertainty and ionization history]; Tristram & Ganga RPP(07)-a0708 [data
analysis]; Fixsen ApJ-a0911 [T].
@ Books: Lemonick 03 [WMAP, I]; Lachièze-Rey & Gunzig 99
[I]; Naselsky et al 06 [r CQG(07)];
Giovannini 08 [primer]; Durrer 09.
@ 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;
Barreiro a0906-in.
@ 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 ApJS(07)ap/06
[3-year results]; Planck Collaboration ap/06 [program];
Balbi NAR(07)ap/06
[Planck]; Komatsu et al ApJS(09)-a0803 +
news pw(08)mar
[5-year results]; Wilson & Stark a0810-in
[from Antarctica].
@ Detection, analysis:
de Oliveira-Costa et al PRD(05)
[atmospheric effects]; White NAR(08)ap/06-in
[future Planck mission].
@ Other opinions: Navia et al a0707 [origin
in local supercluster]; > s.a. anisotropy [galactic
foreground issue].
@ Related topics: Caldwell & Stebbins PRL(08)-a0711 [Copernican
principle / privileged location].
Main Related Topics > see cmb anisotropy and polarization
Other Effects and Properties > s.a. black-hole
types [primordial]; quantum-gravity
phenomenology;
supersymmetry 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 RNC(06)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 AIP(02)ap/01
[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; causality
violation.
@ And gravitational waves: Pritchard & Kamionkowski AP(05)ap/04 [inflationary]; Zhao
& Zhang PLB(09)-a0907 [detection];
> s.a. polarization.
@ And other gravitation: Noh ap/02-in
[R2
gravity]; Nagata et al PRD(04)ap/03 [scalar-tensor
and dG/dt]; Boucher G&C(05)ap [
G and
equivalence principle violations]; Li & Chu PRD(06)ap,
Li et al PRD(07)ap/06 [f(R)];
Serra et al PRD(09) [cmb lensing as test of gravity theory].
@ 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 MNRAS(07)-a0705 [anthropic
predictions]; Babich et al ApJ-a0705 [Kuiper
Belt and inner Oort Cloud objects]; Zibin et al PRD(07)-a0706 [evolution];
Musser SA(09)may [detailed spectrum].
> Other effects: see arrow
of time; astronomical
objects [magnetic fields]; equivalence
principle; tests of general relativity.
> In other models: see bianchi
models; branes; inflation; modified
lorentz symmetry and phenomenology; perturbations; string
phenomenology.
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