Solution

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At fixed , the recombination temperature is determined by atomic physics and the Saha equation, not by today's CMB temperature. Under the stated approximation,
Since ,
and the same ratio holds for the large redshifts themselves to excellent accuracy. The comoving distance can nevertheless be held fixed by adjusting the late-time expansion history, for example , , spatial curvature, or dark-energy density and equation-of-state parameters.

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