Small-Scale Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies as a Probe of the Geometry of the Universe

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1994-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9401003v1

Astrophys.J. 426 (1994) L57

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages of uuencoded PostScript

Scientific paper

10.1086/187339

We perform detailed calculations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies in a CDM-dominated open universe with primordial adiabatic density perturbations for a variety of reionization histories. We show that to a great extent, the CMB anisotropies depend only on the geometry of the Universe, which in a matter dominated universe is determined by $\Omega$, and the optical depth to the surface of last scattering. In particular, the location of the primary Doppler peak depends primarily on $\Omega$ and is fairly insensitive to the other unknown parameters, such as $\Omega_b$, $h$, $\Lambda$, and the shape of the power spectrum. Therefore, measurements of CMB anisotropies on small scales may be used to determine $\Omega$.

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