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We report the results of our continued study of arcminute scale anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Array. The survey consists of ten independent fields selected for low infrared dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. S. Dawson , W. L. Holzapfel , J. E. Carlstrom , S. J. LaRoque , A. Miller , D. Nagai , M. Joy

The analysis of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has become an extremely valuable tool for cosmology. We even have hopes that planned CMB anisotropy experiments may revolutionize cosmology. Together with determinations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Ruth Durrer

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Evan P. Donoghue , John F. Donoghue

We study Planck 2015 cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data using the energy density inhomogeneity power spectrum generated by quantum fluctuations during an early epoch of inflation in the non-flat $\Lambda$CDM model. Unlike…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Junpei Ooba , Bharat Ratra , Naoshi Sugiyama

Analyses of recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations have provided increasing indications for the existence of large scale anisotropy in the universe. Given the far reaching consequences of such an anisotropy for our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 A. Bernui , B. Mota , M. J. Reboucas , R. Tavakol

The breakdown of statistical homogeneity and isotropy of cosmic perturbations is a generic feature of ultra large scale structure of the cosmos, in particular, of non trivial cosmic topology. The statistical isotropy (SI) of the Cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tarun Souradeep , Amir Hajian

We apply the Gabor transform methodology proposed in (Hansen et al. 2002, 2003) to the WMAP data in order to test the statistical properties of the CMB fluctuation field and specifically to evaluate the fundamental assumption of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 F. K. Hansen , A. J. Banday , K. M. Gorski

We compute the CMB anisotropy in an open inflation CDM model which is normalized to the two-year DMR sky map. Presently available CMB data is consistent with $\Omega_0 \sim 0.3 - 0.4$, but does not strongly disfavour either $\Omega_0 \sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Bharat Ratra , Anthony J. Banday , Krzysztof M. Gorski , Naoshi Sugiyama

ABRIDGED: We introduce and analyze a method for testing statistical isotropy and Gaussianity and apply it to the WMAP CMB foreground reduced, temperature maps, and cross-channel difference maps. We divide the sky into regions of varying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Bartosz Lew

We present a map and an angular power spectrum of the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the first flight of MAXIMA. MAXIMA is a balloon-borne experiment with an array of 16 bolometric photometers operated at 100 mK.…

Various data analyses of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provide observational hints of statistical isotropy breaking. Some of these features can be studied within the framework of primordial vector fields in inflationary theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 N. Bartolo , E. Dimastrogiovanni , M. Liguori , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

We constrain several models of the early Universe that predict a statistical anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky. We make use of WMAP9 maps deconvolved with beam asymmetries. As compared to previous releases of WMAP…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-03 Sabir Ramazanov , Grigory Rubtsov

After the precise observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy power spectrum, attention is now being focused on the higher order statistics of the CMB anisotropies. Since linear evolution preserves the statistical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Babich , Matias Zaldarriaga

(Abridged) We present the analysis of the first 18 months of data obtained with the COSMOSOMAS experiment at the Teide Observatory (Tenerife). Three maps have been obtained at 12.7, 14.7 and 16.3 GHz covering 9000 square degrees each with a…

We impose constraints on the topology of the Universe determined from a search for matched circles in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropy patterns of the 7-year WMAP data. We pay special attention to the sensitivity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-19 P. Bielewicz , A. J. Banday , K. M. Gorski

In (Hansen et al. 2002) we presented a new approach for measuring non-Gaussianity of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy pattern, based on the multivariate empirical distribution function of the spherical harmonics a_lm of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Frode K. Hansen , Domenico Marinucci , Nicola Vittorio

We report on the results from two independent but complementary statistical analyses of the WMAP first-year data, based on the power spectrum and N-point correlation functions. We focus on large and intermediate scales (larger than about 3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. K. Eriksen , F. K. Hansen , A. J. Banday , K. M. Gorski , P. B. Lilje

We consider the hypothesis that nonlocal, omnidirectional, causally-coherent quantum entanglement of inflationary horizons may account for some well-known measured anomalies of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy on large angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Craig Hogan , Stephan S. Meyer

We present measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy near the stars HR5127 and Phi Herculis from the fifth flight of the Millimeter-wave Anisotropy eXperiment (MAX). We scanned 8\arcdeg\ strips of the sky with an…

We describe the calibration and data processing methods used to generate full-sky maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the first year of Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations. Detailed limits on residual…