| Issue |
A&A
Volume 446, Number 1, January IV 2006
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 39 - 42 | |
| Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053988 | |
| Published online | 09 January 2006 | |
Induced two-photon decay of the 2s level and the rate of cosmological hydrogen recombination
1
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 86740 Garching bei München, Germany e-mail: jchluba@mpa-garching.mpg.de
2
Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32 Moscow, Russia
Received:
5
August
2005
Accepted:
2
September
2005
Induced emission due to the presence of soft CMB photons slightly increases the two-photon decay rate of the 2s level of hydrogen defining the rate of cosmological recombination. This correspondingly changes the degree of ionization, the visibility function and the resulting primordial temperature anisotropies and polarization of the CMB on the percent level. These changes exceed the precision of the widely used Cmbfast and Camb codes by more than one order of magnitude and can be easily taken into account.
Key words: cosmology: cosmic microwave background / cosmology: miscellaneous
© ESO, 2006
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