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WMAP四极杆的起源

The origin of the WMAP quadrupole

Hao Liu, Shao-Lin Xiong, Ti-Pei Li

摘要:

威尔金森微波各向异性探测器(WMAP)的宇宙微波背景(CMB)温度图在宇宙学研究中具有重要意义。在之前的工作中,我们开发了一个独立于WMAP团队的地图制作管道。由我们的管道从WMAP原始数据产生的新地图与官方地图明显不同,功率谱以及最佳拟合宇宙学参数也明显不同。更重要的是,通过揭示WMAP原始数据与官方地图之间的不一致性,我们指出WMAP团队的管道中一定存在意想不到的问题。在这项工作中,我们发现,麻烦来自天线指向的不准确性所造成的系统性时间漂移之间的姿态数据和科学数据的WMAP原始时序数据(TOD)。WMAP释放中的CMB四极子可以在不使用任何CMB信号的情况下从完全由航天器速度和天线方向确定的差分偶极场精确地产生。在修正WMAP小组的错误后,CMB四极分量消失了。因此,释放的WMAP CMB四极几乎完全是人工的,CMB各向异性的真正四极应该接近于零。我们的发现对于理解早期宇宙非常重要。

英文摘要:

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) are of great importance for cosmology. In previous work we had developed a pipeline for map-making independently of the WMAP team. The new maps produced from the WMAP raw data by our pipeline are notably different to the official ones, and the power spectrum as well as the best-fit cosmological parameters are significantly different too. What's more, by revealing the inconsistency between the WMAP raw data and their official map, we had pointed out that there must exist an unexpected problem in the WMAP team's pipeline. In this work, we find that the trouble comes from the inaccuracy of antenna pointing direction caused by a systematical time drift between the attitude data and the science data in the WMAP raw time-order data (TOD). The CMB quadrupole in the WMAP release can be exactly generated from a differential dipole field which is completely determined by the spacecraft velocity and the antenna directions without using any CMB signal. After correcting the WMAP team's error, the CMB quadrupole component disappears. Therefore, the released WMAP CMB quadrupole is almost completely artificial and the real quadrupole of the CMB anisotropy should be near zero. Our finding is important for understanding the early universe.

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