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从WMAP 7年图寻找CMB涨落中隐藏的镜像对称性

Searching for hidden mirror symmetries in CMB fluctuations from WMAP 7 year maps

F. Finelli, A. Gruppuso, F. Paci, A. A. Starobinsky

摘要:

我们寻找隐藏的镜像对称性在大的角度尺度在WMAP 7年的内部线性组合地图的CMB温度各向异性使用全球像素为基础的估计介绍了这一目标。两个不同的轴被发现的CMB强度模式是对称的(或反对称)在反射下相对于正交平面在99.84(99.96)% CL(置信水平),如果相比,在模拟中的任意轴没有对称的结果。我们已经验证了我们的结果是强大的银河掩模的引入。这些轴的方向分别接近CMB运动偶极和几乎垂直于黄道面。相反,如果将真实数据与随机生成最大镜像对称的平面的模拟数据进行比较,则置信度降至92.39(76.65)%。但是,当所讨论的效应转化为最大镜像(反)对称平面的法线与上述自然轴之间的异常对齐时。我们还介绍了上述估计在谐波域中的表示,确认在像素中得到的结果。对称性异常几乎完全是由于低多极,所以它可能有一个宇宙学甚至原始的起源。相反,反对称的一个主要是由于中间多极,这可能表明它的非基本性质。我们已经证明,这些异常是没有连接到WMAP观测的低方差的已知问题,我们已经检查,这些异常的轴对称部分是小的,所以轴不是对称的。

英文摘要:

We search for hidden mirror symmetries at large angular scales in the WMAP 7 year Internal Linear Combination map of CMB temperature anisotropies using global pixel based estimators introduced for this aim. Two different axes are found for which the CMB intensity pattern is anomalously symmetric (or anti-symmetric) under reflection with respect to orthogonal planes at the 99.84(99.96)% CL (confidence level), if compared to a result for an arbitrary axis in simulations without the symmetry. We have verified that our results are robust to the introduction of the galactic mask. The direction of such axes is close to the CMB kinematic dipole and nearly orthogonal to the ecliptic plane, respectively. If instead the real data are compared to those in simulations taken with respect to planes for which the maximal mirror symmetry is generated by chance, the confidence level decreases to 92.39 (76.65)%. But when the effect in question translates into the anomalous alignment between normals to planes of maximal mirror (anti)-symmetry and these natural axes mentioned. We also introduce the representation of the above estimators in the harmonic domain, confirming the results obtained in the pixel one. The symmetry anomaly is shown to be almost entirely due to low multipoles, so it may have a cosmological and even primordial origin. Contrary, the anti-symmetry one is mainly due to intermediate multipoles that probably suggests its non-fundamental nature. We have demonstrated that these anomalies are not connected to the known issue of the low variance in WMAP observations and we have checked that axially symmetric parts of these anomalies are small, so that the axes are not the symmetry ones.

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