Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-03-28
Europhys.Lett.78:19001,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
10.1209/0295-5075/78/19001
Recent measurements of the temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation from the WMAP satellite provide indication of a non-Gaussian behavior. Although the observed feature is small, it is detectable and analyzable. Indeed, the temperature distribution P^{CMB}(Delta T) of these data can be quite well fitted by the anomalous probability distribution emerging within nonextensive statistical mechanics, based on the entropy S_q = k (1 - \int dx [P(x)]^q)/(q - 1) (where in the limit case q -> 1 we obtain the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy S_1 = - k \int dx P(x) ln[P(x)]). For the CMB frequencies analysed, \nu= 40.7, 60.8, and 93.5 GHz, P^{CMB}(Delta T) is well described by P_q(Delta T) \propto 1/[1 + (q-1) B(\nu) (Delta T)^2]^{1/(q-1)}, with q = 1.04 \pm 0.01, the strongest non-Gaussian contribution coming from the South-East sector of the celestial sphere. Moreover, Monte Carlo simulations exclude, at the 99% confidence level, P_1(Delta T) \propto e^{- B(\nu) (Delta T)^2} to fit the three-year WMAP data.
Bernui Armando
Tsallis Constantino
Villela Thyrso
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