Temperature and polarization patterns in anisotropic cosmologies

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Published 29 June 2011 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Rockhee Sung and Peter Coles JCAP06(2011)036 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/06/036

1475-7516/2011/06/036

Abstract

We study the coherent temperature and polarization patterns produced in homogeneous but anisotropic cosmological models. We show results for all Bianchi types with a Friedman-Robertson-Walker limit (i.e. Types I, V, VII0, VIIh and IX) to illustrate the range of possible behaviour. We discuss the role of spatial curvature, shear and rotation in the geodesic equations for each model and establish some basic results concerning the symmetries of the patterns produced. We also give examples of the time-evolution of these patterns in terms of the Stokes parameters I, Q andU.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2011/06/036