1997/06/02 by Richard A. Battye, R. A. Battye, Battye, R. A.
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9706015
to appear in proceedings of the 18th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Chicago 1996, Ed A.Olinto, J.Friemann and D.Schramm, 3 pages, also available at http://euclid.tp.ph.ic.ac.uk
arxiv created 1997/06/02 · openalex publication_date 1997/06/02 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The physics of photon diffusion for the case of active sources is very different to that of passive sources. Fluctuations created just before the time of last scattering allow anisotropy to be created on scales much smaller than allowed by standard Silk d amping. We develop a formalism to treat this effect and investigate its consequences using simple examples.