The CMB cold spot: texture, cluster or void?

Details The CMB cold spot: texture, cluster or void? The CMB cold spot: texture, cluster or void?

2008-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/0804.2904v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, minor revision, references added, accepted for publication MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13812.x

The non-Gaussian cold spot found in the WMAP data has created controversy about its origin. Here we calculate the Bayesian posterior probability ratios for three different models that could explain the cold spot. A recent work claimed that the Spot could be caused by a cosmic texture, while other papers suggest that it could be due to the gravitational effect produced by an anomalously large void. Also the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect caused by a cluster is taken into account as a possible origin. We perform a template fitting on a 20 degrees radius patch centered at Galactic coordinates (b = -57circ, l = 209) and calculate the posterior probability ratios for the void and Sunyaev-Zeldovich models, comparing the results to those obtained with textures. Taking realistic priors for the parameters, the texture interpretation is favored, while the void and Sunyaev-Zeldovich hypotheses are discarded. The temperature decrement produced by voids or clusters is negligible considering realistic values for the parameters.

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