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天空中的阴影:对WMAP“冷点”的重新评估

Disks in the sky: A reassessment of the WMAP "cold spot"

Ray Zhang, Dragan Huterer

摘要:

我们重新评估的证据表明,WMAP温度图包含一个统计上显着的“冷点”,通过重复使用简单的圆形礼帽(磁盘)的权重,以及不同宽度的高斯权重的分析。与以前使用球形墨西哥帽波的结果相反,当我们将天空中最冷的点与模拟的高斯随机各向同性地图进行比较时,我们在任何尺度上都没有发现显著的信号。我们追踪这种明显的差异的事实,WMAP冷点的温度分布恰好有利于特定的配置文件所给出的小波。由于随机生成的地图通常不会表现出这种一致性,我们得出结论,原始冷点的意义起源至少部分是由于偶然选择使用一个特定的基础权重函数。我们还研究了一个更一般的措施,返回最显着的结果之间的几个选择的加权函数,点的角度尺度,和应用的统计,并再次找到一个空的结果。

英文摘要:

We reassess the evidence that WMAP temperature maps contain a statistically significant "cold spot" by repeating the analysis using simple circular top-hat (disk) weights, as well as Gaussian weights of varying width. Contrary to previous results that used Spherical Mexican Hat Wavelets, we find no significant signal at any scale when we compare the coldest spot from our sky to ones from simulated Gaussian random, isotropic maps. We trace this apparent discrepancy to the fact that WMAP cold spot's temperature profile just happens to favor the particular profile given by the wavelet. Since randomly generated maps typically do not exhibit this coincidence, we conclude that the original cold spot significance originated at least partly due to a fortuitous choice of using a particular basis of weight functions. We also examine significance of a more general measure that returns the most significant result among several choices of the weighting function, angular scale of the spot, and the statistics applied, and again find a null result.

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