A numerical code for the solution of the Kompaneets equation in cosmological context

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 507, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1243-1256

  Procopio, P ^a,b   Burigana, C ^a,b  

^a OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Methods: numerical; Radiation mechanisms: general; Radiative transfer; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE TEMPERATURES; ACCURACY PARAMETERS; CHEMICAL ABUNDANCE; CODE VERSIONS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANTS; DATA CALL; DIMENSIONLESS FREQUENCY; EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE; GROUND BASED; INTEGRAL TERMS; LONG WAVELENGTH; METHODS: NUMERICALS; NUMERICAL CODE; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; NUMERICAL LIBRARY; ON TIME; PARABOLIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; QUANTITATIVE TESTS; RADIATION MECHANISMS: GENERAL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SCATTERING; REIONIZATION; REPRESENTATIVE CASE; SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS; SPACE DISCRETIZATIONS; SPACE EXPERIMENTS; SPECTRAL DISTORTIONS; TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION; THEORETICAL MODELING; TIME BEHAVIOR; TIME DEPENDENCE;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; EXPERIMENTS; MICROWAVES; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SCATTERING;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 70849097097     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912061     Document Type: Article

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