Template fitting and the large-angle CMB anomalies

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2005-09-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509752v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.367:1714-1720,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages. MNRAS submitted

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10078.x

We investigate two possible explanations for the large-angle anomalies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB): an intrinsically anisotropic model and an inhomogeneous model. We take as an example of the former a Bianchi model (which leaves a spiral pattern in the sky) and of the latter a background model that already contains a non-linear long-wavelength plane wave (leaving a stripy pattern in the sky). We make use of an adaptation of the ``template'' formalism, previously designed to detect galactic foregrounds, to recognize these patterns and produce confidence levels for their detection. The ``corrected'' maps, from which these patterns have been removed, are free of anomalies, in particular their quadrupole and octupole are not planar and their intensities not low. We stress that although the ``template'' detections are not found to be statistically significant they do correct statistically significant anomalies.

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