A hint of Poincaré dodecahedral topology in the WMAP first year sky map

DOI10.1051/0004-6361:20040337zbMATH Open1069.83514arXivastro-ph/0402608OpenAlexW2799490767WikidataQ68848092 ScholiaQ68848092MaRDI QIDQ4668281FDOQ4668281

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Publication date: 18 April 2005

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Luminet et al. (2003) suggested that WMAP data are better matched by a Poincar'e dodecahedral FLRW model of global geometry, rather than by an infinite flat model. The analysis by Cornish et al. (2003) for angular radii 25-90 degrees failed to support this. Here, a matched circles analysis specifically designed to detect dodecahedral patterns of matched circles is performed over angular radii in the range 1-40 degrees on the one-year WMAP ILC map, using a correlation statistic and an rms difference statistic. Extreme value distributions of these statistics are calculated for left-handed and right-handed 36 degree `screw motions' (Clifford translations) when matching circles and for a zero (unphysical) rotation. The most correlated circles appear for circle radii of 11pm1 degrees, for the left-handed screw motion, but not for the right-handed one, nor for the zero rotation. The favoured six dodecahedral face centres in galactic coordinates are (l,b)= (252, +65), (51, +51), (144,+38), (207,+10), (271,+3), (332,+25) and their opposites. The six pairs of circles_independently_ each favour a circle angular radius of 11pm1 degrees. Whether or not these six circle pairs centred on dodecahedral faces match via a 36 degree rotation only due to unexpected statistical properties of the WMAP ILC map, or whether they match due to global geometry, it is clear that the WMAP ILC map has some unusual statistical properties which mimic a potentially interesting cosmological signal. The software for reading the WMAP data and for carrying out this analysis are released under the GNU General Public License.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402608

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologycosmic microwave backgroundobservationsreference systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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