Fluctuations in the CMB Induced by Cosmic Strings: Methods and Formalism

Abstract

We present methods to compute maps of CMB fluctuations from high resolution cosmic string networks using a full Boltzmann code, on both large and small angular scales. The accuracy and efficency of these methods are discussed.

17 pages, 6 figures. Removed two subsections and added one section. Matches accepted version

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