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各向异性宇宙中温度场的统计特征

Statistical Characterization of Temperature Patterns in Anisotropic Cosmologies

Rockhee Sung, Jo Short, Peter Coles

摘要:

我们考虑的问题,在全球各向异性宇宙学的CMB温度图的相干大尺度图案的特征。我们研究的方法是相当普遍的,我们测试它们的特定模型是由比安基分类描述的均匀但各向异性的相对论宇宙学。虽然这些模型中产生的温度变化不是随机的,但它们引起了天空中温度波动的“非高斯”分布,这是模型的部分诊断。我们探索了两种量化非高斯和/或非平稳波动场的方法,以了解它们对Bianchi模型的响应。然后,我们研究的温度分布的多极向量的行为,虽然定义在调和空间中,可以表明存在一个优选的方向在真实的空间,即2-球。当应用于我们讨论的模型时,这些方法给出了非常清晰的各向异性存在的信号,这表明它们有希望作为宇宙中存在全局不对称性的诊断。

英文摘要:

We consider the issue of characterizing the coherent large-scale patterns from CMB temperature maps in globally anisotropic cosmologies. The methods we investigate are reasonably general; the particular models we test them on are the homogeneous but anisotropic relativistic cosmologies described by the Bianchi classification. Although the temperature variations produced in these models are not stochastic, they give rise to a "non-Gaussian" distribution of temperature fluctuations over the sky that is a partial diagnostic of the model. We explore two methods for quantifying non-Gaussian and/or non-stationary fluctuation fields in order to see how they respond to the Bianchi models.We first investigate the behavior of phase correlations between the spherical harmonic modes of the maps. Then we examine the behavior of the multipole vectors of the temperature distribution which, though defined in harmonic space, can indicate the presence of a preferred direction in real space, i.e. on the 2-sphere. These methods give extremely clear signals of the presence of anisotropy when applied to the models we discuss, suggesting that they have some promise as diagnostics of the presence of global asymmetry in the Universe.

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