2009/08/04 by R. A. Sunyaev, J. Chluba · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.CO
paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/asna.200911237
published as Astron. Nachr. / AN 330, No. 7, 657-674 (2009) · 39 pages, 22 figures, Proceedings of JENAM 2008 Vienna
arxiv created 2009/08/04 · arxiv updated 2015/05/13
The physical ingredients to describe the epoch of cosmological recombination are amazingly simple and well-understood. This fact allows us to take into account a very large variety of physical processes, still finding potentially measurable consequences for the energy spectrum and temperature anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In this contribution we provide a short historical overview in connection with the cosmological recombination epoch and its connection to the CMB. Also we highlight some of the detailed physics that were studied over the past few years in the context of the cosmological recombination of hydrogen and helium. (abrigded)