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Dark Energy and the Microwave Background

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The Invisible Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics ((LNP,volume 720))

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Evidence for dark energy comes from a wide variety of data. Here I discuss the role the CMB anisotropies have had in framing the dark energy problem. After reviewing the physics of the CMB, I discuss the different methods that are used in determining the dark energy’s density, evolution and clustering properties and the crucial role the microwave background plays in all of these methods.

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Crittenden, R. (2007). Dark Energy and the Microwave Background. In: Papantonopoulos, L. (eds) The Invisible Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 720. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71013-4_7

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