Distortions in the surface of last scattering

Li, Peikai; Dodelson, Scott; Hu, Wayne

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.043502

Title: Distortions in the surface of last scattering

Journal Article · 01 August 2019 · Physical Review D

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.043502 · OSTI ID:1595730

^[1]; Dodelson, Scott ^[1]; Hu, Wayne ^[2]

Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Enrico Fermi Inst., Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics

The surface of last scattering of the photons in the cosmic microwave background is not a spherical shell. Apart from its finite width, each photon experiences a different gravitational potential along its journey to us, leading to different travel times in different directions. Since all photons were released at the same cosmic time, the photons with longer travel times started farther away from us than those with shorter times. Thus, the surface of last scattering is corrugated, a deformed spherical shell. We present an estimator quadratic in the temperature and polarization fields that could provide a map of the time delays as a function of position on the sky. The signal to noise of this map could exceed unity for the dipole, thereby providing a rare insight into the universe on the largest observable scales.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Simons Foundation

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0009924; SC0019248; SC0010118

OSTI ID:: 1595730

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1546836; OSTI ID: 1755679

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Vol. 100, Issue 4; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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