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Is there a common origin for the WMAP low multipole and for the ellipticity in BOOMERanG CMB maps?
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- arXiv, 2003.
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Abstract
- We have measured the ellipticity of several degree scale anisotropies in the BOOMERanG maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at 150 GHz. The average ellipticity is around 2.6-2.7. The biases of the estimator of the ellipticity and for the noise are small in this case. Large spot elongation had been detected also for COBE-DMR maps. If this effect is due to geodesic mixing, it would indicate a non precisely zero curvature of the Universe which is among the discussed reasons of the WMAP low multipole anomaly. Both effects are related to the diameter of the Universe: the geodesics mixing through hyperbolic geometry, low multipoles through boundary conditions.This common reason can also be related with the origin of the the cosmological constant: the modes of vacuum fluctuations conditioned by the boundary conditions lead to a value of the cosmological constant being in remarkable agreement with the supernovae observations.<br />Comment: Added: two co-authors and a comment on the possible relation of the discussed CMB properties with the origin of the observed value of the cosmological constant
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....92ae26c2076ccaf227e2fd5f7b1bd2e0
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0312305