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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 310 3 e Solution by
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Yes. The baryons carry the oscillatory baryon transfer function inherited from the pre-recombination photon-baryon fluid. Their later infall toward cold-dark-matter overdensities suppresses the relative mode and drives , but gravitational evolution does not remove every scale-dependent acoustic phase. The total cosmological density power spectrum therefore contains the small wiggles known as a baryon acoustic oscillation in the matter power spectrum.
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