Phys. Rev. Lett. 42, 1788 - 1791 (1979)Angular Momentum of the Cosmic Background Radiation |
H. P. Jakobsen
Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154
Mark Kon
Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155
I. E. Segal
Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Received 23 February 1979
The effect of a nontrivial conserved isotropic total angular momentum M2=mx2+my2+mz2 on the equilibrium distribution of energy in a photon gas is examined. It is shown that the correspondingly modified Planck law takes the form F(ν)=constνγ-1ln[(1-e-βν-γν2) / (1-e-βν)], where β and γ are parameters determined by the energy and angular momentum. This law provides a good fit to the spectrum of the cosmic background radiation observed by Woody and Richards.
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URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v42/p1788
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.42.1788
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