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ANISOTROPIES IN THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
Martin White, Douglas Scott, and Joseph Silk
Center for
Particle Astrophysics and Departments of Astronomy and Physics,
University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
KEY WORDS: background radiation, cosmology, theory, dark matter,
early universe
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
- Recombination
- Sources of
T/T
- THEORY
- Inflation
- Structure Formation Theories
- The Correlation Function
- Fluctuations
- POWER SPECTRUM
- Power Spectrum on Large Scales
- Power Spectra on Smaller Scales
- The Observed Power Spectrum
- DATA ANALYSIS
- The Gaussian Auto-Correlation Function
- Window Functions
- Fitting Data
- BEYOND LINEAR THEORY
- Reionization
- Second-Order Anisotropies
- UNCERTAINTIES
- NON-STANDARD COSMOLOGIES
- Polarization
- Open Universes
- Effects of a Cosmological Constant
- Topology
- CONCLUSIONS
- APPENDIXES
- Some Useful Numbers
- Sachs-Wolfe Effect
- REFERENCES
- NOTE ADDED IN PROOF
