Giant Rings in the CMB Sky

Assaf Ben-David; Ely D. Kovetz; Nissan Itzhaki

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Giant Rings in the CMB Sky

Ely D. Kovetz, Assaf Ben-David, Nissan Itzhaki

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Submitted 21 May 2010

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The authors' main claim We argue that a cosmic defect seeded by a pre-inflationary particle could explain the giant rings, the large bulk flow and their alignment.

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We find a unique direction in the CMB sky around which giant rings have an anomalous mean temperature profile. This direction is in very close alignment with the afore measured anomalously large bulk flow direction. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we estimate the significance of the giant rings at the $3\sigma$ level and the alignment with the bulk flow at $2.5\sigma$. We argue that a cosmic defect seeded by a pre-inflationary particle could explain the giant rings, the large bulk flow and their alignment.

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We find a unique direction in the CMB sky around which giant rings have an anomalous mean temperature profile. This direction is in very close alignment with the afore measured anomalously large bulk flow direction. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we estimate the significance of the giant rings at the $3\sigma$ level and the alignment with the bulk flow at $2.5\sigma$. We argue that a cosmic defect seeded by a pre-inflationary particle could explain the giant rings, the large bulk flow and their alignment.

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Recently, a new anomaly was added to the list of large scale anomalies (for a review of large scale anomalies see [ref] and references within) - giant rings in the CMB [ref] .

CMB Lensing and Giant Rings · Introduction · 0.98
The presence of enhanced temperature fluctuations in the local patches of the sky is also of interest due to predictions from theoretically motivated models and were studied in past using WMAP data [ref] .

Making maps of cosmological parameters · Introduction · 0.80
Along these lines one could also consider the detectability of other models that might be related to CMB anomalies [ref] .

21-cm Lensing and the Cold Spot in the Cosmic Microwave Background · Introduction · 0.84

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We acknowledge the use of the Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA) [ref] and the use of the HEALPix package [ref] .

HEALPix -- a Framework for High Resolution Discretization, and Fast Analysis of Data Distributed on the Sphere · Conclusions and Discussion · 0.94

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According to [ref] the bulk flow on scales of about $100$ Mpc/h has a magnitude of $|v| = 416 ±78$km/s towards $(l,b) = (282^∘±11^∘, 6^∘±6^∘)$.

Cosmic Flows on 100 Mpc/h Scales: Standardized Minimum Variance Bulk Flow, Shear and Octupole Moments · Giant rings in the sky · 1.00

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We see that, as expected, it resembles the S/N graph in [ref] (Fig. 6(b)).

Cosmological Imprints of Pre-Inflationary Particles · A possible cosmological explanation · 0.98

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It is this cosmological scenario, which involves the effects of a pre-inflationary particle [ref] , that actually motivated us to look for these giant rings in the first place.

The Overshoot Problem and Giant Structures · Introduction · 0.99
It is this cosmological scenario, which involves the effects of a pre-inflationary particle [ref] , that actually motivated us to look for these giant rings in the first place.

Cosmological Imprints of Pre-Inflationary Particles · Introduction · 0.99

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Indeed many authors have studied this issue directly and indirectly using various approaches and claimed the existence of a number of anomalies in the data (see e.g. [ref] and [ref] for recent reviews).

A Cosmic Microwave Background feature consistent with a cosmic texture · Introduction · 0.97
Indeed many authors have studied this issue directly and indirectly using various approaches and claimed the existence of a number of anomalies in the data (see e.g. [ref] and [ref] for recent reviews).

The CMB cold spot: texture, cluster or void? · Introduction · 0.97
Indeed many authors have studied this issue directly and indirectly using various approaches and claimed the existence of a number of anomalies in the data (see e.g. [ref] and [ref] for recent reviews).

Increasing evidence for hemispherical power asymmetry in the five-year WMAP data · Introduction · 0.97

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