A complete treatment of CMB anisotropies in a FRW universe

Sep, 1997
18 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 57 (1998) 3290-3301
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Report number:
  • IASSNS-AST-97-48

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We generalize the total angular momentum method for computing Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies to Friedman-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.
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