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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 73 1 v a Solution by
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Let be the photon frequency in the local comoving frame just after emission. The kinematic redshift gives , and propagation in the FRW metric gives . Multiplication givesEquivalently, . Both redshifts being small is what permits their approximate addition. Here the observer's own peculiar velocity is assumed already corrected to the Hubble flow frame.
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