Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-03-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
PhD thesis, 103 pages with 57 GIF files, full version (with EPS figures) is available at http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tin
Scientific paper
We study the effect of global topology of the spatial geometry on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) for closed flat and closed hyperbolic models in which the spatial hypersurface is multiply connected. If the CMB temperature fluctuations were entirely produced at the last scattering, then the large-angle fluctuations would be much suppressed in comparison with the simply connected counterparts which is at variance with the observational data. However, as we shall show in this thesis, for low matter density models the observational constraints are less stringent since a large amount of large-angle fluctuations could be produced at late times. On the other hand, a slight suppression in large-angle temperature correlations in such models explains rather naturally the observed anomalously low quadrupole which is incompatible with the prediction of the ``standard'' Friedmann-Robertson-Walker-Lemaitre models. Interestingly, moreover, the development in the astronomical observation technology has made it possible to directly explore the imprint of the non-trivial topology by looking for identical objects so called ``ghosts'' in wide separated directions. For the CMB temperature fluctuations identical patterns would appear on a pair of circles in the sky. Another interesting feature is the non-Gaussianity in the temperature fluctuations. Inhomogeneous and anisotropic Gaussian fluctuations for a particular choice of position and orientation are regarded as non-Gaussian fluctuations for a homogeneous and isotropic ensemble.
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