Cosmological Baryon Sound Waves Coupled with the Primeval Radiation

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1997-09-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9709209v1

Phys.Rev. D56 (1997) 7566-7577

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

20 pages, Revtex, Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.56.7566

The fluid equations for the baryon-electron system in an expanding universe are derived from the Boltzmann equation. The effect of the Compton interaction is taken into account properly in order to evaluate the photon-electron collisional term. As an application, the acoustic motions of the baryon-electron system after recombination are investigated. The effective adiabatic index $\gamma$ is computed for sound waves of various wavelengths, assuming the perturbation amplitude is small. The oscillations are found to be dumped when $\gamma$ changes from between 1 (for an isothermal process) to 5/3 (for an adiabatic process).

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