Sachs-Wolfe Effect - UCLA
2018-7-23 · Sachs-Wolfe Effect The Sachs-Wolfe effect describes the effect of gravitational potentials on the anisotropy of the microwave background.. It is broken into two parts: the effect of the potential at the surface of last scattering, which is the ordinary Sachs-Wolfe effect; and the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect, which depends on the change of the gravitational potential while photons of the CMB ...