Abstract
A rigorous first order solution with respect to anisotropy is obtained for the equation of polarized radiation transfer in a homogeneous anisotropic universe with a flat co-moving space. The degree of polarization of the background radiation is shown to be very sensitive to the recombination dynamics and to the secondary reheating epoch. Provided that a quadrupole anisotropy of the background radiation is established, the measurements of its polarization degree enable one to set severe limitations on the conditions of secondary ionization.
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PhysicsAnisotropyPolarization (electrochemistry)AstrophysicsRadiationIonizationBackground radiationUniverseDegree of polarizationQuadrupoleCosmologyComputational physicsOpticsAtomic physicsQuantum mechanicsIonScattering
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- 191
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- 2
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- 207-215
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M. M. Basko,
A. G. Polnarev
(1980).
Polarization and anisotropy of the relict radiation in an anisotropic universe.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
, 191
(2)
, 207-215.
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/191.2.207
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- 10.1093/mnras/191.2.207