Solution

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Write the growing density contrast as , with having the indicated spectral amplitude. In the dust-comoving synchronous gauge, , and the supplied therefore implies . On the same comoving density slicing, the cosmological Poisson equation is
because . This is the comoving-density form of the relativistic scalar constraint, so it can be used on these large scales; replacing its density by the Newtonian-gauge density would not be justified there. Combining the two results gives
Thus the large-angle Sachs-Wolfe effect has source . The potential is constant for this matter-era growing mode, and its power spectrum obeys .

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