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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review D Année : 2006

Cosmic microwave background multipole alignments in slab topologies

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Several analyses of the microwave sky maps from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) have drawn attention to alignments amongst the low-order multipoles. Amongst the various possible explanations, an effect of cosmic topology has been invoked by several authors. We focus on an alignment of the first four multipoles (ℓ=2 to 5) found by Land and Magueijo (2005), and investigate the distribution of their alignment statistic for a set of simulated cosmic microwave background maps for cosmologies with slablike topology. We find that this topology does offer a modest increase in the probability of the observed value, but that even for the smallest topology considered the probability of the observed value remains below 1%.

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hal-04111535 , version 1 (31-05-2023)

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James G. Cresswell, Andrew R. Liddle, Pia Mukherjee, Alain Riazuelo. Cosmic microwave background multipole alignments in slab topologies. Physical Review D, 2006, 73, ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.73.041302⟩. ⟨hal-04111535⟩
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