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Litmus Test for Cosmic Hemispherical Asymmetry in the Cosmic Microwave Background B-mode polarization

Recent measurements of the temperature field of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provide tantalising evidence for violation of Statistical Isotropy (SI) that constitutes a fundamental tenet of contemporary cosmology. CMB space based…

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Direction dependence of cosmological parameters due to cosmic hemispherical asymmetry

Persistent evidence for a cosmic hemispherical asymmetry in the temperature field of cosmic microwave background (CMB) as observed by both WMAP as well as PLANCK increases the possibility of its cosmological origin. Presence of this signal…

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Statistical Isotropy violation of CMB polarization sky due to Lorentz boost

In the frame of a moving observer, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) fluctuation exhibits violation of Statistical Isotropy (SI). The SI violation effect from our local motion on CMB temperature fluctuation has been measured in the…

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Planck 2018 results. VII. Isotropy and Statistics of the CMB

Analysis of the Planck 2018 data set indicates that the statistical properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies are in excellent agreement with previous studies using the 2013 and 2015 data releases. In…

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A viable explanation of the CMB dipolar statistical anisotropy

The presence of a dipolar statistical anisotropy in the spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations was reported by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), and has recently been confirmed in the Planck 2013 analysis…

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Statistical anisotropies in temperature and polarization fluctuations from a scale-dependent trispectrum

We study statistical anisotropies generated in the observed two-point function of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations if the primordial statistics are non-Gaussian. Focusing on the dipole modulations of the anisotropies, we…

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Closing in on the large-scale CMB power asymmetry

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies have revealed a dipolar asymmetry in power at the largest scales, in apparent contradiction with the statistical isotropy of standard cosmological models. The…

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Planck 2013 results. XXIII. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB

The two fundamental assumptions of the standard cosmological model - that the initial fluctuations are statistically isotropic and Gaussian - are rigorously tested using maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy from the…

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Assessing consistency between CMB temperature and polarization measurements, with application to Planck, ACT and SPT

Planck's Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization observations are the premier dataset for constraining cosmological models. Cosmic variance limited temperature at large and intermediate scales today dominates the…

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Aspects of the Cosmic Microwave Background Dipole

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments generally infer a temperature fluctuation from a measured intensity fluctuation through the first term in the Taylor expansion of the Planck function, the relation between the intensity in a…

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Probing the statistical isotropy of the universe with Planck data of the cosmic microwave background

We study the angular distribution of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to probe the statistical isotropy of the universe by using precise full-sky CMB data with a model-independent approach. We investigated…

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Directional Variations of Cosmological Parameters from the Planck CMB Data

Recent observations suggest that there are violations of the isotropy of the universe at large scales, an important part of the cosmological principle. In this paper, we use the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data to search for spatial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Shek Yeung , Ming-Chung Chu

Testing physical models for dipolar asymmetry: from temperature to k space to lensing

One of the most intriguing hints of a departure from the standard cosmological model is a large-scale dipolar power asymmetry in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). If not a statistical fluke, its origins must lie in the modulation of…

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Statistical Anisotropic Gaussian Simulations of the CMB Temperature Field

Although theoretically expected to be Statistically Isotropic (SI), the observed Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature \& polarization field would exhibit SI violation due to various inevitable effects like weak lensing, Doppler…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-27 Suvodip Mukherjee , Tarun Souradeep

Planck 2015 results. XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB

We test the statistical isotropy and Gaussianity of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies using observations made by the Planck satellite. Our results are based mainly on the full Planck mission for temperature, but also…

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Joint Bayesian analysis of large angular scale CMB temperature anomalies

Cosmic microwave background measurements show an agreement with the concordance cosmology model except for a few notable anomalies: Power Suppression, the lack of large scale power in the temperature data compared to what is expected in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-20 Shabbir Shaikh , Suvodip Mukherjee , Santanu Das , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Tarun Souradeep

Microwave Background Correlations from Dipole Anisotropy Modulation

Full-sky maps of the cosmic microwave background temperature reveal a 7% asymmetry of fluctuation power between two halves of the sky. A common phenomenological model for this asymmetry is an overall dipole modulation of statistically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Simone Aiola , Bingjie Wang , Arthur Kosowsky , Tina Kahniashvili , Hassan Firouzjahi

Testing cosmological models with large-scale power modulation using microwave background polarization observations

We examine the degree to which observations of large-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization can shed light on the puzzling large-scale power modulation in maps of CMB anisotropy. We consider a phenomenological model in which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Emory F. Bunn , Qingyang Xue , Haoxuan Zheng

Health checkup test of the standard cosmological model in view of recent Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies experiments

We present an updated data-analysis comparison of the most recent observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature anisotropies and polarization angular power spectra released by four different experiments: the Planck satellite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-15 Eleonora Di Valentino , William Giarè , Alessandro Melchiorri , Joseph Silk