Polarization and anisotropy of the RELICT radiation in an anisotropic universe
Abstract
A rigorous first order solution with respect to anisotropy is obtained for the equation of polarized radiation transfer in a homogeneous anisotropic universe with a flat co-moving space. The degree of polarization of the background radiation is shown to be very sensitive to the recombination dynamics and to the secondary reheating epoch. Provided that a quadrupole anisotropy of the background radiation is established, the measurements of its polarization degree enable one to set severe limitations on the conditions of secondary ionization.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- April 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/191.2.207
- Bibcode:
- 1980MNRAS.191..207B
- Keywords:
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- Anisotropy;
- Cosmology;
- Polarization (Waves);
- Radiative Transfer;
- Relic Radiation;
- Universe;
- Astronomical Models;
- Recombination Reactions;
- Space Radiation