Published April 1981 | Version v1
Journal article

Reheated intergalactic gas and the polarization and anisotropy of the microwave background including Comptonization effects

Creators

  • 1. Oxford Univ. (UK). Dept. of Astrophysics

Description

Analytic expressions are obtained for the dependence of the polarization and the quadrupole component of the microwave background on frequency, and on the optical depth and temperature of a reheated intergalactic gas in an axisymmetric Bianchi type I Universe. It is shown that Comptonization effects on the polarization and quadrupole component can become important for gas temperatures > 107 to 108 K. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.
Journal Volume
195
Journal Issue
1
Series
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.
Journal Page Range
127-141
ISSN
0035-8711