The Imprint of Lithium Recombination on the Microwave Background Anisotropies

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2001-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0105345v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, 8 figures, submitted to ApJ (5/18/01)

Scientific paper

10.1086/324149

Following Loeb (2001), we explore the imprint of the resonant 6708A line opacity of neutral lithium on the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at observed wavelengths of 250-350 micron (0.9-1.2 THz). We show that if lithium recombines in the redshift range of z=400-500 as expected, then the standard CMB anisotropies would be significantly modified in this wavelength band. The modified polarization signal could be comparable to the expected polarization anisotropies of the far-infrared background on sub-degree angular scales (l>100). Detection of the predicted signal can be used to infer the primordial abundance of lithium, and to probe structure in the Universe at z~500.

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