The interaction of matter and radiation in the hot model of the Universe,II

Heating of the primaeval plasma prior to the epoch of recombination results in distortions in the Rayleigh-Jeans region of the microwave relic radiation spectrum (1–60 cm, or more exactly =2.5_–7/8 cm). The present observational data allow limits to be set to such energy injection from which follow upper limits to (a) the amount of antimatter in the universe; (b) the parameters of primaeval turbulence; and (c) the adiabatic fluctuation spectrum for small masses (M<10¹¹ M ).If the heating takes place prior to the epocht=10_1012/5 sec (and in particular at the annihilation of electron-positron pairs atT10⁸–10¹⁰ K,t<300 sec), no observable distortions are expected in the relic radiation spectrum. Here =/_crit is the dimensionless average density of matter in the universe.Translated from the Russian by D. F. Smith.