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Is there a common origin for the WMAP low multipole and for the ellipticity in BOOMERanG CMB maps?

Authors :
Gurzadyan, V. G.
Ade, P. A. R.
de Bernardis, P.
Bianco, C. L.
Bock, J. J.
Boscaleri, A.
Crill, B. P.
De Troia, G.
Hivon, E.
Hristov, V. V.
Kashin, A. L.
Lange, A. E.
Masi, S.
Mauskopf, P. D.
Montroy, T.
Natoli, P.
Netterfield, C. B.
Pascale, E.
Piacentini, F.
Polenta, G.
Ruhl, J.
Yegorian, G.
Publication Year :
2003
Publisher :
arXiv, 2003.

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

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....92ae26c2076ccaf227e2fd5f7b1bd2e0
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0312305