 Cosmological visibility function (source code)

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= Cosmological visibility function
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The visibility function
$$
g(\eta)=\partial_\eta e^{-\tau(\eta)}
=\Gamma(\eta)e^{-\tau(\eta)}
$$
is the probability density for the conformal time of a CMB photon's last scattering.

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