Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-09-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
12 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
We estimate the power spectra of CMB temperature anisotropy in localized regions on the sky using the WMAP 7-year data. Here, we report that the north hat and the south hat regions at the high Galactic latitude ($|b|\ge 30\deg$) show anomaly in the power spectrum amplitude around the third peak, which is statistically significant up to $3\sigma$. We try to figure out the cause of the observed anomaly by analyzing the low Galactic latitude ($|b|<30\deg$) regions where the galaxy contamination is expected to be stronger, and regions that are weakly or strongly dominated by the WMAP instrument noise. We also consider the possible effect of unresolved radio point sources. We found another but less statistically significant anomaly in the low Galactic latitude north and south regions whose behaviour is opposite to the one at the high latitude. Our analysis shows that the observed north-south anomaly at high latitude becomes weaker on the regions with high number of observations (weak instrument noise), suggesting that the anomaly is significant at sky regions that are dominated by the WMAP instrument noise.
Hwang Jai-chan
Ko Kyeong Yeon
Park Chan-Gyung
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