Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-11-09
Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 043002
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 3 figures, v.2 adds an extra relevant reference and comment
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.043002
The acoustic peak in the CMB power spectrum is sensitive to causal processes and cosmological parameters in the early universe up to the time of last scattering. We provide limits on correlated spatial variations of the peak height and peak position and interpret these as constraints on the spatial variation of the cosmological parameters (baryon density, cold dark matter density and cosmological constant as well as the amplitude and tilt of the original fluctuations). We utilize recent work of Hansen, Banday and Gorski (HBG) who have studied the spatial isotropy of the power spectrum as measured by WMAP by performing the power spectrum analysis on smaller patches of the sky. We find that there is no statistically significant correlated asymmetry of the peak. HBG have also provided preliminary indications of a preferred direction in the lower angular momentum range(~ 2-40) and we show how possible explanations of this asymmetry are severely constrained by the data on the acoustic peak. Finally we show a possible non-gaussian feature in the data, associated with a difference in the northern and southern galactic hemispheres.
Donoghue Evan P.
Donoghue John F.
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