= Rees-Sciama effect
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The <Rees-Sciama effect> is the microwave temperature shift produced by time-dependent gravitational potentials in nonlinear structure. A photon gains energy entering a potential well and loses it leaving; the shifts do not cancel when the well changes during transit. To leading order in its effect on the photon spectrum, this is a frequency-independent thermodynamic temperature shift, unlike the <thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect>. A nonlinear potential can evolve even during matter domination, when linear growing-mode potentials are constant.
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