Photon brightness perturbation
ID: photon-brightness-perturbation
The photon brightness perturbation is the fractional frequency-integrated directional energy perturbation. For a small blackbody temperature shift , . Integration by parts gives . Its direction average is the photon density contrast. This temperature identification assumes a perturbation of blackbody form; the integrated brightness definition itself is more general.
// Target: cosmology.bigb
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