 Photon monopole (source code)

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= Photon monopole
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The photon monopole is the direction-averaged fractional temperature perturbation. In Newtonian gauge its gravitationally observable effective temperature is the Sachs-Wolfe combination $\Theta_0+\Psi$.

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