Density perturbations of quantum-mechanical origin and anisotropy of the microwave background
- 15 December 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 50 (12) , 7154-7172
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.50.7154
Abstract
If the large-angular-scale anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background radiation is caused by the long-wavelength cosmological perturbations of quantum mechanical origin, they are, most likely, gravitational waves, rather than density perturbations or rotational perturbations.Keywords
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