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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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 maps and cosmological parameters
Taylor Baildon, Yilun Guan · 2020 · 601 citations
Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Physics +17
<i>Planck</i>2013 results. XVII. Gravitational lensing by large-scale structure
P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim, C. Armitage-Caplan et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2014 · 373 citations · Full text
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Detecting dark matter annihilation with CMB polarization: Signatures and experimental prospects
Nikhil Padmanabhan, Douglas P. Finkbeiner · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology · 2005 · 337 citations · Full text
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Princeton University
Princeton, United States
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University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, United States
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University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
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University of Oxford
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California Institute of Technology
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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