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A CMB Tutorial: From First Principles to the Power Spectrum

A guided build of a compact CMB Boltzmann pipeline, moving from the expanding background through recombination, perturbations, line-of-sight projection, lensing, and primordial tensor modes.

Planck cosmic microwave background temperature map
Planck CMB temperature map. Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration / U.S. Planck Data Center.
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