Cosmic Microwave Background Features| Cosmic Microwave Background Features |
In General
> s.a. cosmic strings; lensing and
types of lensing [weak]; perturbations
[primordial]; Sachs-Wolfe Effect.
* Anomalies, preferred directions:
2007, An alignment ("axis of evil") has been reported between the
quadrupole and octopole moments in the WMAP microwave sky survey, but its significance
is still being debated; 2013, The variance of the fluctuations appears to be different
in two opposing hemispheres of the sky, roughly divided along the ecliptic plane; Is
this a remnant of the preinflationary universe? 2014, The Cold Spot is the most
significant deviation from gaussianity in the cmb.
* Circles: They may arise from non-trivial spatial
topology (> see cosmic topology), or from pre-Big-Bang collisions.
@ Large-scale anomalies: Inoue S&T-a0710;
Starkman et al a1201-conf;
Liddle & Cortês PRL(13)
+ Kamionkowski Phy(13) [model from curvaton mode from negative curvature scale];
Aslanyan & Easther PRL(13) [causation and correlation];
Gruppuso & Sagnotti IJMPD(15)-a1506-GRF
[lack of power at large angular scales and pre-inflationary physics];
Romano et al a1509 [new one, aligned with cosmic structure];
Bueno JCAP(16)-a1602 [common origin, framework].
Preferred Directions > s.a. galaxies [dark flow];
galaxy distribution; polarization.
@ General references: Land & Magueijo PRL(05)ap,
PRD(05) [odd parity?];
Consoli et al ap/06 [vs Great Attractor];
Helling et al PRD(06)ap;
Ghosh et al PRD(07)ap/06 [hidden patterns and Bianchi VIIh];
Basak et al PRD(06);
Souradeep et al NAR(06)ap [not much evidence];
Abramo et al PRD(06);
Land & Magueijo MNRAS(07)ap/06;
Ackerman et al PRD(07)ap;
Rakić & Schwarz PRD(07)ap [preferred plane rather than axis];
Pullen & Kamionkowski PRD(07)-a0709;
Campanelli et al PRD(07);
Ho et al PRD(08)-a0801,
Hirata et al PRD(08)-a0801 [and large-scale structure];
Carroll et al PRD(10)-a0811
[effect of translational invariance violation during inflation];
Tangen PRD-a0910 [super-Hubble inhomogeneity];
Bennett et al ApJS(11)-a1001 [no compelling evidence for anomalies];
Pullen & Hirata JCAP(10)-a1003;
Kovetz et al ApJ(10)-a1005 [giant rings];
Copi et al AiA(10)-a1004 [rev];
Kashino et al PRD(12) [anisotropy of mean fluctuation];
Rassat & Starck A&A(13)-a1303 [no];
news at(14)mar [is the lopsidedness telling us something].
@ Hot and cold spots:
Cruz et al MNRAS(05),
MNRAS(08)-a0804,
a0901-proc;
Gurzadyan & Kocharyan A&A(08)-a0810 [void and Kolmogorov stochasticity parameter];
Hou et al MNRAS(09)-a0903;
Masina & Notari JCAP(09)-a0905 [lensing effect on correlation functions];
Ayaita et al PRD(10)-a0905 [too few spots];
Granett et al ApJ(10)-a0911 [galaxy counts in cold spot];
Bernui PRD(09)-a0912;
Vielva et al MNRAS(11)-a1002 [cold spot and polarization];
Vielva AiA(10)-a1008 [comprehensive overview];
Kovetz & Kamionkowski PRL(13)-a1211 [cold spot and 21-cm lensing];
Bueno PLB(14)-a1405 [the Cold Spot in inhomogeneous inflationary reheating];
Szapudi et al a1406-proc,
Nadathur et al PRD(14)-a1408 [the Cold Spot as shadow of a supervoid];
Naidoo et al MNRAS(16)-a1512 [multiple voids?];
> s.a. galaxy distribution.
@ Circles: Gurzadyan & Penrose a1011,
a1012,
nat(10)dec [pre-Big-Bang collisions];
Nelson & Wilson-Ewing PRD(11) [and pre-Big-Bang gravitational-wave pulse];
Meissner et al PRS(13)-a1207 [evidence for ring-type structures];
Bielewicz et al MNRAS(12)-a1207 [search for concentric rings];
Gurzadyan & Penrose EPJP-a1302 [conformal cyclic cosmology and pre-Big-Bang collisions];
DeAbreu et al JCAP(15)-a1508 [circles are compatible with the standard model].
@ Related topics:
Frolop & Scott a1603 [pi in the sky :-)].
The Galactic Foreground and Other Sources
@ General references:
Land & Slosar PRD(07)-a0706 [(no) correlation with galactic HI];
news pw(07)nov [Verschuur's claim];
Dobler & Finkbeiner ApJ(08)-a0712;
Ysard et al A&A(10)-a0906;
Cho & Lazarian ApJ(10)-a1005 [statistical approach];
Ghosh et al MNRAS(11)-a1006 [foreground maps];
Delabrouille a1006-proc [component separation];
Carretti ASP-a1008 [and polarization];
Bonaldi et al MNRAS(14)-a1407 [removal requirements];
Czaja & Bromley PRD(14)-a1407 [distortion by the Milky Way];
Dickinson a1606-proc [rev];
Chluba et al a1701/MNRAS.
@ Specific sources: Hansen et al JCAP(12)-a1206 [Kuiper Belt objects];
von Hausegger et al JCAP(16)-a1511 [footprints of supernova remnant Loop I].
@ Related topics: Herranz & Vielva IEEE(10)-a1101 [background sources];
Ichiki PRD(14)-a1406 [testing the zero-mean hypothesis];
Lavinto & Räsänen JCAP(15)-a1507 [effect of random Swiss Cheese];
Imara & Loeb a1603 [effect of diffuse intergalactic dust].
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