Post-Recombination Fluctuations from a Sequestered Dark Sector
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| author | Bottaro, Salvatore Geller, Michael Redigolo, Diego Tsur, Maya |
| author_facet | Bottaro, Salvatore Geller, Michael Redigolo, Diego Tsur, Maya |
| contents | We develop a formalism to characterize the imprints of late-time sources of cosmological fluctuations under the sole assumption that the injection occurs on timescales short compared to the horizon. For post-recombination injections, we derive the general modification of photon geodesics in the presence of scalar, vector, and tensor perturbations, and compute the resulting impact on the Cosmic Microwave Background through the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect. We show that the signal is generically dominated by instantaneous injections of anisotropic stress. As an application, we consider first-order phase transitions in a sequestered dark sector and show that current observations constrain fractional energy injections at the permille level. |
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| spellingShingle | Post-Recombination Fluctuations from a Sequestered Dark Sector Bottaro, Salvatore Geller, Michael Redigolo, Diego Tsur, Maya Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology We develop a formalism to characterize the imprints of late-time sources of cosmological fluctuations under the sole assumption that the injection occurs on timescales short compared to the horizon. For post-recombination injections, we derive the general modification of photon geodesics in the presence of scalar, vector, and tensor perturbations, and compute the resulting impact on the Cosmic Microwave Background through the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect. We show that the signal is generically dominated by instantaneous injections of anisotropic stress. As an application, we consider first-order phase transitions in a sequestered dark sector and show that current observations constrain fractional energy injections at the permille level. |
| title | Post-Recombination Fluctuations from a Sequestered Dark Sector |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03007 |