Last Scattering Surface

The "Last Scattering Surface" is a theoretical hypersurface in spacetime representing the set of points from which cosmic microwave background photons decoupled from matter and traveled freely to the present epoch, distinguishing it as the spatial locus of the final Thomson scattering events before the universe became transparent.

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Surface Of Last Scattering

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  1. JS
    Joseph Silk

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 171 citations

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    David N. Spergel

    Princeton University, United States

    5 publications · 386 citations

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    Glenn D. Starkman

    Case Western Reserve University, United States

    5 publications · 360 citations

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  4. AC
    Asantha Cooray

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    5 publications · 113 citations

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  5. AC
    A. Challinor

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 584 citations

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