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The Microwave Background - TBC

The Microwave Background - TBC. Prof. Guido Chincarini This part of the lectures introduce the MWB and ends stating three problems which could be developed in many details and of great interest:

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The Microwave Background - TBC

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  1. The Microwave Background - TBC Prof. Guido Chincarini This part of the lectures introduce the MWB and ends stating three problems which could be developed in many details and of great interest: 1) The Relation between the motion of the solar system and the distribution of Matter in the Universe. See the Potent Method. The study of the anisotropies and of the irregualrities on the Microwave maps and their relation to: The foreground contamination The finger prints of matter on radiation. The epoch of the reionization and the comparison of the quasars observations with numerical simulations and the estimates of the WMAP mission. Cosmology 2002/2003

  2. Cosmology 2002/2003

  3. Cosmology 2002/2003

  4. The youngest bound objects Cosmology 2002/2003

  5. Cosmology 2002/2003

  6. The  census 0.001 0.1 0.3 1.0 0.003 0.01 0.03 HDM Massive Neutrinos Baryons Stars CDM Gas Photons Matter Light Neutrinos  Gravity Waves Total Cosmology 2002/2003

  7. Gamow et al. - Alpher & Herman • A great prevision and no reward ?: • R.B. Partridge (1995): 3K The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. • R.A. Alpher and R. Herman Physics Today August 1988. • Gamow,G. 1956 September Scientific American. • Gamow,G. 1952 The Creation of the Universe, Viking Press • Gamow, G., 1946, Phys. Rev., 70, 572 and Erratum Corrige in 71, 273. • Alpher and Herman considered the possibility to carry out a radio search to detect the background but were informed by their colleagues observer that the technology at the time was no sensitive enough for that detection. • Weinberg in Gravitation and Cosmology (1972 Page 510) misses the point when he states : • “A somewhat more detailed analysis along these lines, carried out in 1950 by Alpher and Herman, gave T0 = 5 degrees. Unfortunately, Alpher and Herman went on to express doubts as to whether this radiation would have survived until the present.” • When A&H mentioned those doubts, they were discussing cosmic rays and not the Thermal microwave cosmic radiation. Cosmology 2002/2003

  8. A very Brief Summary - MWB • 1915 General Relativity – The  problem. • 1925 The expanding Universe. • 1946 – 1950 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis – Gamow, Alpher & Herman – Predictions. • 1961 Sandage – Two parameters and a Model. However the evolving Universe – • 1965 Dicke & Co. – Penzias and Wilson • 1970 Dipole Peebles – Zeldovich • 1970 – 1980 Anisotropies – See the Creta meeting Editors Abell & Chincarini. • 1990 COBE: FIRAS & COBRA • 1992 COBE DMR Anisotropies • End of the upper limits era • Low resolution however. Excellent estimate of the Temperature. • 2000 Boomerang MAXIMA etc Maps and Spherical Harmonics Peak estimate. • 2002 WMAP High resoluion maps. • ……….. The story continues … Cosmology 2002/2003

  9. Gamow 1948 • If we form the heavy elements from elementary particles, and more precisely using Protons and Neutrons • Then one of the fundamental reaction is that to form Deuterium: n + p => d +  • And this reaction happens at a temperature of about: T ~ 109 degrees • On a temperature somewhat larger that 109 degress the  photons dissociate the Deuterium as soon as it forms. • That is we must have a T  109. Furthermore we must be able to accumulate Deuterium as a first step to build up heavier elements. • The density is also critical. I must have a density high enough to allow a reasonable probability for the reaction. • On the other hand the density must not be too high. I can not overproduce heavy elements since the amount of Hydrogen must remain the highest one as I observe. • Then I have an interplay between the cosmological model which changes density and Temperature as a function of time and the nuclear reaction rates. Cosmology 2002/2003

  10. How fast ? Number of encounters = n  v t Or\1 enclounter every seconds I assume 1 encounter=1 reaction n(t)  v t For the reaction to occur at the desired temperature it must be that the The reaction rate is smaller than the expansion time of the Universe since otherwise the Temperature decreases and the reaction has not time to occurr. 1/(n  v ) < texp or(n  v ) >1 We now look at the Cosmology – Note that we are considering the early phases of the Universe. In this case  (t) is very close to 1. That is I can consider a flat Universe with the term k = 0 : Cosmology 2002/2003

  11. When Cosmology 2002/2003

  12. Remember this is strictly valid only for the radiatiodominated Universe. The extension is an approximation 7.56 10-15 For T=109 t = 230.5 sec and trasforming T=109 in velocity: n(t)= 1/( v t ) = 1018 nucleons cm-3 Cosmology 2002/2003

  13. We also have: Cosmology 2002/2003

  14. The prevision Today we estimate the density of Baryons from nucleosynthesis to be 0.014 < Bh2 <0.026. Assuming 0.02 and Ho=72 we derive a density of: B = 1.94 10-31 g cm-3 Cosmology 2002/2003

  15. And a Temperature • To obtain a more accurate result we should account for the fact that the relation between the epansion parameter and the time changes during the later period dominated by radiation. By so doing I would obtain a value rather close [ ~ 5 Degrees] to what is being observed today [2.7 degrees]. • But since we are only making order of magnitude estimates we use the previous relation for the models. Cosmology 2002/2003

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  17. What happens during the expansion • I have a black body radiation B per unit solid angle. • If I divide by h I get the number of photons. • If I divide by c I get the density of radiation and T is the Temperature. • When the volume expand I assume I conserve the number of photons. • This is true and however we should look into the mechanisms capable of creating and destroying the photons. • What are the mechanisms by which at z < 109 it is possible to create photons or change their Energy? • Thermal Bremstrahlung.(free – free) • This is a function of the density of baryons • Compton – Electrons scatter photons • Radiative Compton – A second photon is produced in the e+ scatter. • These are a function of the Energy and density. The reaction are important only at very high Temperatures and density. Can be disregarded at lower Temperatures. • I could also use the invariant I/3. Or again by stating that I preserve the law of physics, the BB therefore, and the number of photons, I get again I/3 to be invariant. Cosmology 2002/2003

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  19. Problem • We observe an object which emits Black Body radiation and is at temperature T in its reference frame. The object is at redshift z subtending a solid angle d. What is the flux. What is the redshift assuming a Doppler motion rather than a cosmological? • We will use of the fact that I3 is an invariant. • I conserve the blackbody spectrum and all I measure is equivalent to a BlackBody spectrum at z=0 with a Temperature of T/(1+z). • The invariance holds in general, that is it does not make any difference of how we interpret the redshift, we always have the same result. Cosmology 2002/2003

  20. Black Body - n/nB Cosmology 2002/2003

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  22. More about Radiation – Specific Heat • The energy of each molecule of a monoatomic gas is 3/2 k T. • We indicate with N the number density of molecules. See Landau and Lifshitz for the definitions. This is a result in the same direction of the number of photons versus the number of baryons. To change by 1 degree the Radiation temperature we need about 108 times the energy needed to change by 1 degree the matter. Cosmology 2002/2003

  23. Entropy Cosmology 2002/2003

  24. The MWB - Observations Cosmology 2002/2003

  25. The Dipole • The small value of the anisotropy, =v/c ~ 10-3, simplify the derivation since we can disregard relativistic effects. • It is not, as often simplified, a simple Doppler effect. • The Doppler effect will increase the energy of the photon in the direction of the motion of the factor /0 = (1+ cos). On the other hand the interval of frequencies d also increases of the same factor d0 = d0 (1+ cos). • Since the Temperature is defined in terms of Energy per unit frequency, see for instance the Black Body, the net effect of Doppler is that the Temperature does not change. Cosmology 2002/2003

  26. The moving observerSee Peebles Physica Review 23 October 1968 Vol 174, Page 2168 • The observer who moves in a certain direction will collect, in the direction  of the motion, more photons than the steady observer. The latter colects cdt * Area * density and the former (cdt+v dt cos) *Area * density. That is a factor (1+ cos) difference. • A second effect acts on the solid angle in the following way and accounting for the effect of aberration, that is by moving the angular position of an object changes. • I use the relativistic transformation of velocities. • The observer is moving with a velocity v. The photons collected have energy E in the range dE • The solid angle d can be written as d = d sin d = d d(cos). • The two observers agree on the Number of photons they collected, that is dN=dN’. • The Numbe of photns per unit volume, solid angle and energy interval is n(E,). • The observers also agree on the Area A0 of the detector. Cosmology 2002/2003

  27. Details v   Cosmology 2002/2003

  28. Useful relations Cosmology 2002/2003

  29. That isFor the Energy transformation see for instance French S.R. Page 210 Cosmology 2002/2003

  30. Using Planck Equation Cosmology 2002/2003

  31. Approximating Cosmology 2002/2003

  32. More for fun – A satellite x1 x=0 x2 h  Ground Obs Cosmology 2002/2003

  33. The satellite Frame Two Pulses, from x1 and x2 separated by . Time to reach the observer are r1/c and r2/c . The Observer Pulse separated by  = / since  = 1/ The observer measures a time separation  = r2/c-r1/c+ Due to the large distance of the satellite and the small sepration between x2 and x1 we can write: r1-r2 ~(x2-x1) cos =vcos and  = r2/c-r1/c+ = -vcos/c +  =  (1-v cos/c) or  =  / [ (1- cos)] Cosmology 2002/2003

  34. The observed motion – First Question • After correction for the motion of the Eart, rotation and revolution about the Sun we obtain the heliocentric velocity which is: 370.60.4 km/s L=264.310.17 B=48.50.10 • After making correction for the rotation of our galaxy and for the motion of our galaxy respect the Local Group of galaxies (see later) we have: VLG-MWB=62722km/s L=2763 B=303 Cosmology 2002/2003

  35. K Band =13 mm, =22.8 Ghz Cosmology 2002/2003

  36. Ka Band =9.1 mm, =33 Ghz Cosmology 2002/2003

  37. Q Band =7.3 mm, =40.7 Ghz Cosmology 2002/2003

  38. V Band =4.9 mm, =60.8 Ghz Cosmology 2002/2003

  39. W Band =3.2 mm, =93.5 Ghz Cosmology 2002/2003

  40. The Cleaned anisotropy map Cosmology 2002/2003

  41. The anisotropy – II Question The first detailed, all-sky picture of the infant universe. The WMAP image reveals 13 billion+ year old temperature fluctuations (shown as color differences) that correspond to the seeds that grew to become the galaxies. Encoded in the patterns are the answers to many age-old questions, such as the age and geometry of the Universe. Cosmology 2002/2003

  42. The second question • The seeds of in_homogeneities exist in the Universe since the very beginning and during the period matter and radiation were coupled these in_homogeneities were present both in the radiation and in the matter. • After decoupling matter perturbations grew or dissipated but the print of the Microwave had to be visible and correlate to the distribution of matter we see now. • That is the anisotropies are of fundamental importance to the understanding of the Universe, its formation and evolution. • It is also apparent that in order to see the foot print of galaxies or smaller objects we need a very good resolution. Cosmology 2002/2003

  43. The resolution of the MWB • I show on the right Figure the comparison between the COBE satellite and the WMAP. • COBE with a resolution of about 7 degrees could only show the correlation with the very large structures. • The relation between angular and linear size is about: (L)=34.4” (h)(l0/1 Mpc) Cosmology 2002/2003

  44. We believe that large scale structure in the universe grew out of small perturbations in the early universe through gravitational instability. This implies that the photon-baryon fluid moves in a gravitational potential well before last scattering. This assumes a Newtonian representation of perturbations. The response of the fluid to the gravitational potential fluctuations allow us to measure the properties of the fluid in an expanding universe known to be filled with dark matter, which allows us to extract basic cosmological parameters, as well as those of the seed perturbations, which can be used to pin down the nature of large scale structure formation in the universe. The Finger prints – Courtesy of Cosmology 2002/2003

  45. Accuracy of Parameters Each point is the mean of various observations and it is clearly how small are the observational errors. This Figure is shown simply to show that by analyzing the distribution of the irregularities, after subtraction of foreground disturbing, but extremely interesting objects, the Cosmological parameters can be derived very accurately. Cosmology 2002/2003

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  47. How it works • By going back in time, from left to the right, objects and structures become fuzzy and while showing structures they move toward recombination where the decoupling between matter and radiation occurred. Here we find the Microwave background radiation and the foot print left from matter to radiation via the strong coupling due to Thomson scattering. Cosmology 2002/2003

  48.  As a function of scale size • The plot shows that the value of the density parameter  increases as a function of the scale length. • This is equivalent to say that the Mass to Luminosity ratio increases with scale length. • An analogous result had been derived long ago (early seventies) by H.J. Rood who showed that the Mass to Luminosity ratio of extragalactic system is a function of the Virial mass. • The reader search in the literature for this resul and discusses it. Cosmology 2002/2003

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  50. III Question • And we conclude this part with the problem of reionization. According to the new observation of WMAP the epoch of reionization occurred at zr = 20-9+10. • Recent observtions of quasars at z > 6 showed that re_ionization is very near z ~ 7 and this was in reasonable agreement with the observations. • This need to be discussed and set in a common and reasonable framework. Cosmology 2002/2003

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