Matter temperature after cosmological recombination

Details Matter temperature after cosmological recombination Matter temperature after cosmological recombination

2009-02-19

arxiv.org/abs/0902.3438v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

2 pages, short and sweet, MNRAS in press, revised to match accepted version

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The temperature of the atomic matter in the Universe is held to that of the Cosmic Background radiation until decoupling at z~100. After this it cools faster than the radiation (\propto(1+z)^2 rather than (1+z)) and would have fallen to about 20mK today if astrophysical feedback processes had not heated up the interglactic medium. We show how the derivative of the Compton coupling equation helps numerically to follow the decoupling process.

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