SMALL SCALE FLUCTUATIONS OF THE CMBR IN THE QUASI-STEADY STATE COSMOLOGY

J. V. Narlikar   
Director, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ganeshkhind, Post Bag 4, Pune 411 007, INDIA

This talk will begin with a brief introduction to the Quasi-Steady State
Cosmology (QSSC) which was proposed in 1993 by Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey
Burbidge and Jayant Narlikar, as an alternative to the standard big bang
cosmology. In this cosmology the universe has a long-term steady state
expansion coupled with short term oscillations, without singularity. 
It will be shown how this cosmology explains the origin of the
cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) in terms of thermalized  
relic starlight from previous cycles. The rest of the talk will describe
how the otherwise isotropic background will have small scale fluctuations
from starlight concentrated in rich clusters of galaxies, leading to a
peak in the power spectrum at harmonic around 200. Other smaller peaks
are also predicted