Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-03-18
Phys.Rev.D79:083002,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
33 pages, 15 figures, to appear in PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.083002
We present an approximate, analytical calculation of the reionized spectra $C_l^{XX}$ of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) anisotropies and polarizations generated by relic gravitational waves (RGWs). Three simple models of reionization are explored, whose visibility functions are fitted by gaussian type of functions as approximations. We have derived the analytical polarization $\beta_l$ and temperature anisotropies $\alpha_l$, both consisting of two terms proportional to RGWs at the decoupling and at the reionization as well. The explicit dependence of $\beta_l$ and $\alpha_l$ upon the reionization time $\eta_r$, the duration $\Delta\eta_r$, and the optical depth $\kappa_r$ are demonstrated. Moreover, $\beta_l$ and $\alpha_l$ contain $\kappa_r$ in different coefficients, and the polarization spectra $C_l^{EE}$ are $C_l^{BB}$ are more sensitive probes of reionization than $C_l^{TT}$. These results facilitate examination of the reionization effects, in particular, the degeneracies of $\kappa_r$ with the normalization amplitude and with the initial spectral index of RGWs. It is also found that reionization also causes a $\kappa_r$-dependent shift $\Delta l\sim 20$ of the zero multipole $l_0$ of $C_l^{TE}$, an effect that should be included in order to detect the traces of RGWs. Compared with numerical results, the analytical $C_l^{XX}$ as approximation have the limitation. For the primary peaks in the range $l\simeq (30, 600)$, the error is $\le 3%$ in three models. In the range $l < 20$ for the reionization bumps, the error is $\le 15%$ for $C_l^{EE}$ and $C_l^{BB}$ in the two extended reionization models, and $C_l^{TT}$ and $C_l^{TE}$ have much larger departures for $l<10$. The bumps in the sudden reionization model are too low.
Xia Tian-Yang
Zhang Yajing
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