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arxiv: astro-ph/0403702 · v2 · submitted 2004-03-31 · 🌌 astro-ph

Gradient measure and extended self-similarity of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy

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keywords backgroundcollisionscosmicmicrowavealfvenanisotropyarcminutecascades
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Using the WMAP cosmic microwave background data it is shown that collisions between Alfven wave packets and the cascades generated by these collisions (the Iroshnikov model) can determine the photon temperature fluctuations for arcminute scales on the last scattering surface.

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