Sachs-Wolfe plateau

ID: sachs-wolfe-plateau

For a scale-invariant potential spectrum with constant, the matter-era Sachs-Wolfe effect gives . The logarithmic spherical Bessel square integral then gives . This plateau applies to large-angle temperature anisotropies, neglecting acoustic evolution and late evolving potentials; it is not a constant spectrum.

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