THE PHYSICS OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND

By SARAH MOORE

CONTENTS OBSERVATIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN COSMOLOGY INTRODUCTION CURRENT STATUS OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE SPECTRUM OF THE CMB IN THE UNIVERSE THE BARYONIC COMPONENT OF MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE KINETICS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN A UNIFORM UNIVERSE RADIATION TRANSFER EQUATION IN THE UNIVERSE THE GENERALIZED KOMPANEETS EQUATION COMPTON DISTORTION OF RADIATION SPECTRUM ON INTERACTION WITH HOT ELECTRONS RELATIVISTIC CORRECTION OF THE ZELDOVICH–SUNYAEV EFFECT THE KINEMATIC ZELDOVICH–SUNYAEV EFFECT DETERMINATION OF H0 FROM THE DISTORTION OF THE CMB SPECTRUM AND THE DATA ON X-RAY LUMINOSITY OF GALAXY CLUSTERS COMPTONIZATION AT LARGE REDSHIFT THE IONIZATION HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE THE INEVITABILITY OF HYDROGEN RECOMBINATION STANDARD MODEL OF HYDROGEN RECOMBINATION THE THREE-LEVEL APPROXIMATION FOR THE HYDROGEN ATOM QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF RECOMBINATION MODES DETAILED THEORY OF RECOMBINATION: MULTILEVEL APPROXIMATION NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF RECOMBINATION KINETICS SPECTRAL DISTORTION OF THE CMB IN THE COURSE OF COSMOLOGICAL RECOMBINATION THE INEVITABILITY OF HYDROGEN REIONIZATION TYPE OF DARK MATTER AND DETAILED IONIZATION BALANCE MECHANISMS OF DISTORTION OF HYDROGEN RECOMBINATION KINETICS RECOMBINATION KINETICS IN THE PRESENCE OF IONIZATION SOURCES PRIMORDIAL CMB AND SMALL PERTURBATIONS OF UNIFORM COSMOLOGICAL MODEL RADIATION TRANSFER IN NON-UNIFORM MEDIUM CLASSI?CATION OF TYPES OF INITIAL PERTURBATIONS GAUGE INVARIANCE MULTICOMPONENT MEDIUM: CLASSI?CATION OF THE TYPES OF SCALAR PERTURBATIONS NEWTONIAN THEORY OF EVOLUTION OF SMALL PERTURBATIONS RELATIVISTIC THEORY OF THE EVOLUTION OF PERTURBATIONS IN THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE SAKHAROV MODULATIONS OF THE SPECTRUM OF DENSITY PERTURBATIONS IN THE BARYONIC UNIVERSE SAKHAROV OSCILLATIONS: OBSERVATION OF CORRELATIONS PRIMARY ANISOTROPY OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND THE SACHS–WOLFE EFFECT THE SILK AND DOPPLER EFFECTS AND THE SAKHAROV OSCILLATIONS OF THE CMB SPECTRUM C(L) AS A FUNCTION OF THE PARAMETERS OF THE COSMOLOGICAL MODEL PRIMORDIAL POLARIZATION OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC COMPONENTS OF THE POLARIZATION ?ELD LOCAL AND NON-LOCAL DESCRIPTIONS OF POLARIZATION GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATION OF THE POLARIZATION ?ELD STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF RANDOM ?ELDS OF ANISOTROPY AND POLARIZATION IN THE CMB SPECTRAL PARAMETERS OF THE GAUSSIAN ANISOTROPY ?ELD LOCAL TOPOLOGY OF THE RANDOM GAUSSIAN ANISOTROPY ?ELD: PEAK STATISTICS SIGNAL STRUCTURE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF MINIMA AND MAXIMA OF THE CMB ANISOTROPY PEAK STATISTICS ON ANISOTROPY MAPS CLUSTERIZATION OF PEAKS ON ANISOTROPY MAPS MINKOWSKI FUNCTIONALS STATISTICAL NATURE OF THE SIGNAL IN THE BOOMERANG AND MAXIMA-1 DATA SIMPLEST MODEL OF A NON-GAUSSIAN SIGNAL AND ITS MANIFESTATION IN MINKOWSKI FUNCTIONALS TOPOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE POLARIZATION ?ELD THE WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE (WMAP) MISSION AND INSTRUMENT SCIENTI?C RESULTS THE ‘PLANCKIAN ERA’ IN THE STUDY OF ANISOTROPY AND POLARIZATION OF THE CMB SECONDARY ANISOTROPY AND POLARIZATION OF THE CMB DURING THE REIONIZATION EPOCH SECONDARY ANISOTROPY GENERATED BY GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS GALACTIC AND EXTRAGALACTIC NOISE CONCLUSION REFERENCES