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Temperature Anisotropies: Foundations

The CMB is almost uniform but contains temperature anisotropies at roughly the level of parts in one hundred thousand. CMB anisotropies constrain inflationary initial conditions, matter density, baryon abundance, curvature, neutrino effects, and structure growth.

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The CMB is almost uniform but contains temperature anisotropies at roughly the level of parts in one hundred thousand.

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Photons emerging from different early density regions experience different gravitational redshifts, intrinsic temperatures, and Doppler shifts.

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