Testing the isotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Backround

Details Testing the isotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Backround Testing the isotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Backround

2004-06-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406393v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the XXXIX Rencontres de Moriond "Exploring the Universe", La Thuile, Italy, March 28

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There have recently been several claims of an asymmetric distribution of large scale fluctuations in the WMAP data. I review some recent results from a test of isotropy of the power spectrum at all scales and show how the power is asymmetrically distributed for the multipole range l=5-40 in three WMAP frequency channels. I compare this to a recent detection of a non-Gaussian signal in one part of the sky using the local curvature properties of the cosmic microwave background fluctuation field. I find that there may be a common origin of these two findings due to a similar direction and frequency independence of the results.

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