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The Microwave Anisotropy Probe and Planck missions will provide low noise maps of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). These maps will allow measurement of the power spectrum of the CMB with measurement noise below…

Previous claims of significant evidence for mirror-parity in the large-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) experiment have been recently echoed in the first study of isotropy and…

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We present a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing map produced from a linear combination of South Pole Telescope (SPT) and \emph{Planck} temperature data. The 150 GHz temperature data from the $2500\ {\rm deg}^{2}$ SPT-SZ survey is…

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We use the Planck LFI 70GHz data to further probe point source detection technique in the sky maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. The method developed by Tegmark et al. for foreground reduced maps and the Kolmogorov…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 H. G. Khachatryan , A. L. Kashin , E. Poghosian , G. Yegorian

Since the very first observations, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has revealed on large-scales unexpected features known as anomalies, which challenge the standard $\Lambda$ cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmological model. One…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-24 Giacomo Galloni , Mario Ballardini , Nicola Bartolo , Alessandro Gruppuso , Luca Pagano , Angelo Ricciardone

We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using the final $\textit{Planck}$ 2018 temperature and polarization data. We increase the significance of the detection of lensing in the polarization maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Planck Collaboration , N. Aghanim , Y. Akrami , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , K. Benabed , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , J. Carron , A. Challinor , H. C. Chiang , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , B. P. Crill , F. Cuttaia , P. de Bernardis , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , E. Di Valentino , J. M. Diego , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , Y. Fantaye , R. Fernandez-Cobos , F. Forastieri , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frolov , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Gerbino , T. Ghosh , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , J. Hamann , W. Handley , F. K. Hansen , D. Herranz , E. Hivon , Z. Huang , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , A. Karakci , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , J. Kim , L. Knox , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , F. Levrier , A. Lewis , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , Y. -Z. Ma , J. F. Macías-Pérez , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , A. Marcos-Caballero , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Matarrese , N. Mauri , J. D. McEwen , A. Melchiorri , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , D. Molinari , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , A. Moss , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , G. Patanchon , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , A. Renzi , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Ruiz-Granados , L. Salvati , M. Sandri , M. Savelainen , D. Scott , C. Sirignano , R. Sunyaev , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , M. Tenti , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , T. Trombetti , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , M. White , S. D. M. White , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

To minimize instrumentally induced systematic errors, cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy experiments measure temperature differences across the sky using paires of horn antennas, temperature map is recovered from temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-30 Hao Liu , Ti-Pei Li

In a recent paper, Gurzadyan & Penrose claim to have found directions on the sky centred on which are circles of anomalously low variance in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). These features are presented as evidence for a particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Adam Moss , Douglas Scott , James P. Zibin

We present a Gaussianity test of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization by analyzing the statistics of unpolarized points in the sky, classified into three distinct types: saddles, comets, and beaks. This classification of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 K. O. Parfenov , D. I. Novikov , A. O. Mihalchenko

The lack of power anomaly is an intriguing feature at the largest angular scales of the CMB anisotropy temperature pattern, whose statistical significance is not strong enough to claim any new physics beyond the standard cosmological model.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-11 M. Billi , A. Gruppuso , N. Mandolesi , L. Moscardini , P. Natoli

The resonant conversion of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons into axions within large-scale structure induces an anisotropic spectral distortion in CMB temperature maps. Applying state-of-the-art foreground cleaning techniques to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Samuel Goldstein , Fiona McCarthy , Cristina Mondino , J. Colin Hill , Junwu Huang , Matthew C. Johnson

We investigate the angular two-point correlation function of temperature in the WMAP maps. Updating and extending earlier results, we confirm the lack of correlations outside the Galaxy on angular scales greater than about 60 degrees at a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-27 Craig J. Copi , Dragan Huterer , Dominik J. Schwarz , Glenn D. Starkman

We derive updated Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) constraints on annihilating dark matter, and present forecasts for upcoming CMB surveys. We show that the addition of recent temperature, polarization, and lensing data from ground-based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Charlotte Myers , Dominic Agius , Daniele Gaggero , Angelo Ricciardone

Present cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations have significantly advanced our understanding of the universe's origin, especially with primordial gravitational waves (PGWs). Currently, ground-based CMB telescopes are mainly located…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 Dongdong Zhang , Bo Wang , Jia-Rui Li , Yi-Fu Cai , Chang Feng

We provide evidence of the detection of a new non-Gaussian anomaly in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation which has larger statistical significance than the Cold Spot (CS) anomaly and comparable size. This temperature anomaly is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Antonio Enea Romano , Daniel Cornejo , Luis E. Campusano

We present a Wiener filtered map of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) fluctuations in a disk with 15 degree diameter, centered at the North Celestial Pole. The map is based on the 1993-1995 data from the Saskatoon (SK) experiment, with…

On large angular scales (greater than about 60 degrees), the two-point angular correlation function of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), as measured (outside of the plane of the Galaxy) by the Wilkinson Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Devdeep Sarkar , Dragan Huterer , Craig J. Copi , Glenn D. Starkman , Dominik J. Schwarz