Reionization by active sources and its effects on the cosmic microwave background

Details Reionization by active sources and its effects on the cosmic microwave background Reionization by active sources and its effects on the cosmic microwave background

1998-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808269v2

Phys.Rev.D60:103520,1999

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages LaTeX with 11 eps figures; replaced with final version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.60.103520

We investigate the possible effects of reionization by active sources on the cosmic microwave background. We concentrate on the sources themselves as the origin of reionization, rather than early object formation, introducing an extra period of heating motivated by the active character of the perturbations. Using reasonable parameters, this leads to four possibilities depending on the time and duration of the energy input: delayed last scattering, double last scattering, shifted last scattering and total reionization. We show that these possibilities are only very weakly constrained by the limits on spectral distortions from the COBE FIRAS measurements. We illustrate the effects of these reionization possibilities on the angular power spectrum of temperature anisotropies and polarization for simple passive isocurvature models and simple coherent sources, observing the difference between passive and active models. Finally, we comment on the implications of this work for more realistic active sources, such as causal white noise and topological defect models. We show for these models that non-standard ionization histories can shift the peak in the CMB power to larger angular scales.

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