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Phys. Rev. D 72, 043526 (2005) [10 pages]

Second-order gravitational effects of local inhomogeneities on CMB anisotropies in nonzero-Λ flat cosmological models

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Kenji Tomita
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

Received 8 May 2005; published 25 August 2005

Nonlinear gravitational effects of large-scale local inhomogeneities on cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies are studied, based on the relativistic second-order theory of perturbations in nonzero-Λ flat cosmological models, which has been analytically derived by the present author, and on the second-order formula of CMB anisotropies derived by Mollerach and Matarrese. In this paper we derive the components of the CMB anisotropy power spectra in the range of l=1-22 which are caused by asymmetric local inhomogeneities on scales of 300 Mpc. Using our results it is found that there is a possibility to explain the small north-south asymmetry of CMB anisotropies which has recently been observed.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.043526
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.043526
PACS:
98.80.−k, 04.25.Nx, 98.70.Vc