Cosmic Neutrino Last Scattering Surface

Abstract

Neutrinos decoupled from the rest of the cosmic plasma when the Universe was less than one second old, far earlier than the photons which decoupled at t=380,000 years. Surprisingly, though, the last scattering surface of the neutrinos is much closer to us than that of the photons. Here we calculate the properties of the last scattering surfaces of the three species of neutrinos.

Important reference to earlier work of Bisnovatyi-Kogan and Seidov added, and mis-spelling of Opher reference corrected

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