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切空宇宙微波背景没有异常

The cut-sky cosmic microwave background is not anomalous

Andrew Pontzen, Hiranya V. Peiris

摘要:

观测到的宇宙微波背景的角关联函数以前曾被报道是异常的,特别是在未被银河辐射污染的天空区域测量时。Efstathiou等人最近的工作提出了各向同性理论的贝叶斯比较,对所谓的异常的重要性提出了质疑。我们将这种分析扩展到所有具有消失均值(= 0)的各向异性高斯理论<delta T>,使用更广泛的模型类别来确认异常不太可能指向新的物理。另一方面,如果有任何新的物理学需要收集,它来自于低亮度的排列,这将更好地通过全天空统计来量化。我们还考虑了二次极大似然功率谱估计,假设构造各向同性。因此,如果系综是各向异性的,则基本假设是错误的。尽管如此,我们证明,与观测到的天空兼容的理论,这些估计(虽然不再是最佳的)仍然在统计上优于伪C_1功率谱估计。

英文摘要:

The observed angular correlation function of the cosmic microwave background has previously been reported to be anomalous, particularly when measured in regions of the sky uncontaminated by Galactic emission. Recent work by Efstathiou et al. presents a Bayesian comparison of isotropic theories, casting doubt on the significance of the purported anomaly. We extend this analysis to all anisotropic Gaussian theories with vanishing mean (<delta T> = 0), using the much wider class of models to confirm that the anomaly is not likely to point to new physics. On the other hand if there is any new physics to be gleaned, it results from low-l alignments which will be better quantified by a full-sky statistic. We also consider quadratic maximum likelihood power spectrum estimators that are constructed assuming isotropy. The underlying assumptions are therefore false if the ensemble is anisotropic. Nonetheless we demonstrate that, for theories compatible with the observed sky, these estimators (while no longer optimal) remain statistically superior to pseudo-C_l power spectrum estimators.

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