Local variance asymmetries in Planck temperature anisotropy maps
Aug 22, 20147 pages
Published in:
- Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 446 (2015) 4, 4232-4238
- Published: Feb 1, 2015
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- 1408.5396 [astro-ph.CO]
Report number:
- IGC-14-8-2
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Abstract: (Oxford University Press)
Recently, it was shown that local variance maps of temperature anisotropy are simple and useful tools for the study of large-scale hemispherical power asymmetry. This was done by studying the distribution of dipoles of the local variance maps. In this work, we extend the study of the dipolar asymmetry in local variance maps using foreground cleaned Planck 143 GHz and 217 GHz data to smaller scales. In doing so, we include the effect of the CMB Doppler dipole. Further, we show that it is possible to use local variance maps to measure the Doppler dipole in these Planck channel maps, after removing large-scale features (up to l = 600), at a significance of about 3σ. At these small scales, we do not find any power asymmetry in the direction of the anomalous large-scale power asymmetry beyond that expected from cosmic variance. At large scales, we verify previous results, i.e. the presence of hemispherical power asymmetry at a significance of at least 3.3σ.Note:
- 7 pages and 7 figures; various typos fixed and discussions clarified in v2 to match the MNRAS accepted version
- methods: statistical
- cosmic background radiation
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