Photon temperature perturbation

ID: photon-temperature-perturbation

A direction-dependent fractional photon temperature change. For a thermal spectrum, is its linear expansion at fixed comoving energy. For a nonthermal spectrum the same ansatz is a brightness dilation, rather than necessarily a thermodynamic temperature. In unweighted Legendre polynomial multipoles, , the photon density, velocity and anisotropic stress are , and .

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