Large-Angle Anomalies in the CMB (original) (raw)

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• Huterer, Dragan ;
• Schwarz, Dominik J. ;
• Starkman, Glenn D.

Abstract

We review the recently found large-scale anomalies in the maps of temperature anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. These include alignments of the largest modes of CMB anisotropy with each other and with geometry and direction of motion of the Solar System, and the unusually low power at these largest scales. We discuss these findings in relation to expectation from standard inflationary cosmology, their statistical significance, the tools to study them, and the various attempts to explain them.

Publication:

Advances in Astronomy

Pub Date:

October 2010

DOI:

10.1155/2010/847541

10.48550/arXiv.1004.5602

arXiv:

arXiv:1004.5602

Bibcode:

2010AdAst2010E..92C

Keywords:

• Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics;
• General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
• High Energy Physics - Theory

E-Print:

Review in the Advances in Astronomy special issue "Testing the Gaussianity and Statistical Isotropy of the Universe" (eds. D. Huterer, E. Komatsu and S. Shandera)