Cosmic microwave anisotropies in an inhomogeneous compact flat universe

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/8/085017MaRDI QIDQ3000824zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ralf Aurich, Sven Lustig

Publication date 31 May 2011

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5880

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic microwave background (CMB)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical astronomy (85A35) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: The anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are computed for the half-turn space E_2 which represents a compact flat model of the Universe, i.e. one with finite volume. This model is inhomogeneous in the sense that the statistical properties of the CMB depend on the position of the observer within the fundamental cell. It is shown that the half-turn space describes the observed CMB anisotropies on large scales better than the concordance model with infinite volume. For most observer positions it matches the temperature correlation function even slightly better than the well studied 3-torus topology.

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