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Missing dust signature in the cosmic microwave background

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    0475246 - GFÚ 2018 RIV GB eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
    Vavryčuk, Václav
    Missing dust signature in the cosmic microwave background.
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Roč. 470, č. 1 (2017), L44-L48. ISSN 0035-8711. E-ISSN 1365-2966
    Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985530
    Klíčová slova: dust, extinction * galaxies: high redshift * galaxies: ISM * intergalactic medium * cosmic background radiation * early Universe
    Obor OECD: Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
    Impakt faktor: 5.194, rok: 2017

    I examine a possible spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) due to its absorption by galactic and intergalactic dust. I show that even subtle intergalactic opacity of 1 x 10(-7) mag h Gpc(-1) at the CMB wavelengths in the local Universe causes non-negligible CMB absorption and decline of the CMB intensity because the opacity steeply increases with redshift. The CMB should be distorted even during the epoch of the Universe defined by redshifts z < 10. For this epoch, the maximum spectral distortion of the CMB is at least 20 x 10(-22)W m(-2) Hz(-1) sr(-1) at 300 GHz, which is well above the sensitivity of the COBE/FIRAS, WMAP or Planck flux measurements. If dust mass is considered to be redshift dependent with noticeable dust abundance at redshifts 2-4, the predicted CMB distortion would be even higher. The CMB would also be distorted in a perfectly transparent universe due to dust in galaxies, but this effect is lower by one order than that due to intergalactic opacity. The fact that the distortion of the CMB by dust is not observed is intriguing and questions either opacity and extinction law measurements or validity of the current model of the Universe.
    Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0272084

     
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