Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1994-09-27
Astrophys.J. 436 (1994) L107
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
compressed uuencoded postscript, 9 pages including 4 figures, APJL accepted
Scientific paper
10.1086/187644
The homogeneity of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CBR) is one of the most severe constraint for theories of the structure formation in the universe. We investigated the effect of the gravitational scattering (lensing) of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and superclusters on the anisotropy of the CBR by numerical simulations. Although this effect was thought to be unimportant, we found that the gravitational scatterings by superclusters can significantly reduce the anisotropy of the CBR. We took into account the exponential growth of the distance between two rays due to multiple scatterings. The bending angle of each ray grows through the random walk process. On the other hand, difference between two rays grows exponentially while it is small. This exponential growth is caused by coherent scatterings that two rays suffer, and was neglected in the previous studies. The gravitational scattering by superclusters reduces the observed temperature anisotropy of the CBR at present time approximately by 40--60 $\%$ from that at the recombination time for angular scale up to a few degrees if the supercluster were formed at $z=$2--4.
Ebisuzaki Toshikazu
Fukushige Toshiyuki
Makino Junichiro
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