Photon redshift identity with positive spatial perturbations

ID: photon-redshift-identity-with-positive-spatial-perturbations

Let , and . The synchronous-to-Newtonian transformation with positive spatial perturbations gives . Since , the displayed identity follows by integration. The emission endpoint combines intrinsic and velocity shifts into the ordinary Sachs-Wolfe effect; the local observer endpoint is a monopole plus a dipole. Without anisotropic stress the remaining integral is the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect, . The angular term in the synchronous contraction is positive for this metric convention.

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