One damping process in this phenomenon is characterized by a suppression factor that is an integral with respect to the conformal time, is mediated by diffusion, and is named for Silk. B-mode polarization in this phenomenon is relatively suppressed since vector perturbations due to plasma vorticity are negligible because of post-inflation damping. The temperature of this phenomenon was first suggested by an excited rotational mode in CN. Rees et al derived a nonlinear second-order correction to this phenomenon which would be caused by time-varying gravitational fields; the largest contributor to that correction is probably the Great Attractor. It was created after (*) recombination at the surface of last scattering, and anisotropies in it were mapped by the WMAP probe For 10 points, name this relic of the big bang
One damping process in this phenomenon is characterized by a suppression factor that is an integral with respect to the conformal time, is mediated by diffusion, and is named for Silk. B-mode polarization in this phenomenon is relatively suppressed since vector perturbations due to plasma vorticity are negligible because of post-inflation damping. The temperature of this phenomenon was first suggested by an excited rotational mode in CN. Rees et al derived a nonlinear second-order correction to this phenomenon which would be caused by time-varying gravitational fields; the largest contributor to that correction is probably the Great Attractor. It was created after (*) recombination at the surface of last scattering, and anisotropies in it were mapped by the WMAP probe For 10 points, name this relic of the big bang, an almost-uniform background of blackbody radiation.
One damping process in this phenomenon is characterized by a suppression factor that is an integral with respect to the conformal time, is mediated by diffusion, and is named for Silk.
cosmic microwave background radiation [or cosmic microwave background radiation; or CBR or CMB or MBR; prompt on partial answer]