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The Sachs-Wolfe Effect

Martin White, Wayne Hu

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9609105

Abstract

We present a pedagogical derivation of the Sachs-Wolfe effect, specifically the factor 1/3 relating the temperature fluctuations to gravitational potentials. The result arises from a cancellation between gravitational redshifts and intrinsic temperature fluctuations which can be derived from a coordinate transformation of the background.

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