Inverting the Sachs-Wolfe formula: an inverse problem arising in early-universe cosmology

DOI10.1088/0266-5611/15/6/301MaRDI QIDQ4943170zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 8 October 2000

Published in Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9909234

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cosmic microwave background radiationearly-universe cosmologyinverse problemmoment problemsSachs-Wolfe effect

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Moment problems (44A60) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: The (ordinary) Sachs-Wolfe effect relates primordial matter perturbations to the temperature variations $deltaT/T$ in the cosmic microwave background radiation; $deltaT/T$ can be observed in all directions around us. A standard but idealised model of this effect leads to an infinite set of moment-like equations: the integral of $P(k)j_{e}l{l}^2(ky)$ with respect to k ($0<k<infty$) is equal to a given constant, $C_{e}ll$, for $ell=0,1,2,\mathrm{...}$. Here, P is the power spectrum of the primordial density variations, $j_{e}ll$ is a spherical Bessel function and y is a positive constant. It is shown how to solve these equations exactly for ~$P(k)$. The same solution can be recovered, in principle, if the first ~m equations are discarded. Comparisons with classical moment problems (where $j_{e}l{l}^2(ky)$ is replaced by $k^{e}ll$) are made.

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