Cosmological recombination

In this thesis we focus on studying the physics of cosmological recombination and how the details of recombination affect the Cosmic Microwave Back ground (CMB) anisotropies. We present a detailed calculation of the spectral line distortions on the CMB spectrum arising from the Ly α and two-photon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wong, Wan Yan
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5348