 Adiabatic initial conditions (source code)

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= Adiabatic initial conditions
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Adiabatic initial conditions perturb every species by the same local time shift, so their relative number-density ratios are initially unperturbed. Photon acoustic modes then begin predominantly as displacement modes with cosine phase.

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