Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-01-12
Astrophys.J. 580 (2002) 29-35
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/343070
The cosmological recombination history of lithium, produced during Big--Bang nucleosynthesis, is presented using updated chemistry and cosmological parameters consistent with recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements. For the popular set of cosmological parameters, about a fifth of the lithium ions recombine into neutral atoms by a redshift $z\sim 400$. The neutral lithium atoms scatter resonantly the CMB at 6708 \AA and distort its intensity and polarization anisotropies at observed wavelengths around $\sim 300 \mu$m, as originally suggested by Loeb (2001). The modified anistropies resulting from the lithium recombination history are calculated for a variety of cosmological models and found to result primarily in a suppression of the power spectrum amplitude. Significant modification of the power spectrum occurs for models which assume a large primordial abundance of lithium. While detection of the lithium signal might prove difficult, if offers the possibility of inferring the lithium primordial abundance and is the only probe proposed to date of the large-scale structure of the Universe for $z\sim 500-100$.
Dalgarno Alexander
Lepp Stephen
Loeb Abraham
Stancil Phillip C.
Zaldarriaga Matias
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