Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-02-17
Nuovo Cim.B118:1101-1107,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Scientific paper
10.1393/ncb/i2004-10047-4
The recent study of BOOMERanG 150 GHz Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation maps have detected ellipticity of the temperature anisotropy spots independent on the temperature threshold. The effect has been found for spots up to several degrees in size, where the biases of the ellipticity estimator and of the noise are small. To check the effect, now we have studied, with the same algorithm and in the same sky region, the WMAP maps. We find ellipticity of the same average value also in WMAP maps, despite of the different sensitivity of the two experiments to low multipoles. Large spot elongations had been detected also for the COBE-DMR maps. If this effect is due to geodesic mixing and hence due to non precisely zero curvature of the hyperbolic Universe, it can be linked to the origin of WMAP low multipoles anomaly.
Ade Peter A. R.
Bianco Carlo Luciano
Bock James Joseph
Boscaleri Andrea
Crill Brendan P.
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