WMAP confirming the ellipticity in BOOMERanG and COBE CMB maps

Gurzadyan, V. G., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, de Bernardis, P., Bianco, C. L., Bock, J. J., Boscaleri, A., Crill, B. P., De Troia, G., Hivon, E., Hristov, V. V., Kashin, A. L., Kuloghlian, A. E., Lange, A. E., Masi, S., Mauskopf, Philip Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-5516, Montroy, T., Natoli, P., Netterfield, C. B., Pascale, Enzo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3242-8154, Piacentini, F., Polenta, G., Ruhl, J. and Yegorian, G. 2003. WMAP confirming the ellipticity in BOOMERanG and COBE CMB maps. Il Nuovo Cimento B (10-12) , pp. 1101-1107. 10.1393/ncb/i2004-10047-4

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Publisher:	Italian Physical Society
ISSN:	0369-3554
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 09:47
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/42138

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