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Sachs-Wolfe effect: a standalone construct

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Cosmology

temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background caused by photons climbing out of gravitational potential wells.

In cosmology, Sachs-Wolfe effect refers to temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background caused by photons climbing out of gravitational potential wells. This meaning comes from Sachs (1967) in The Astrophysical Journal.[1]

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References

  1. Sachs, R. K., & Wolfe, A. M. (1967). Perturbations of a Cosmological Model and Angular Variations of the Microwave Background. The Astrophysical Journal, 147, 73. https://doi.org/10.1086/148982

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