Planck 2018 results. VII. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB
Abstract
Analysis of the Planck 2018 data set indicates that the statistical properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies are in excellent agreement with previous studies using the 2013 and 2015 data releases. In particular, they are consistent with the Gaussian predictions of the ΛCDM cosmological model, yet also confirm the presence of several so-called "anomalies" on large angular scales. The novelty of the current study, however, lies in being a first attempt at a comprehensive analysis of the statistics of the polarization signal over all angular scales, using either maps of the Stokes parameters, Q and U, or the E-mode signal derived from these using a new methodology (which we describe in an appendix). Although remarkable progress has been made in reducing the systematic effects that contaminated the 2015 polarization maps on large angular scales, it is still the case that residual systematics (and our ability to simulate them) can limit some tests of non-Gaussianity and isotropy. However, a detailed set of null tests applied to the maps indicates that these issues do not dominate the analysis on intermediate and large angular scales (i.e., ℓ ≲ 400). In this regime, no unambiguous detections of cosmological non-Gaussianity, or of anomalies corresponding to those seen in temperature, are claimed. Notably, the stacking of CMB polarization signals centred on the positions of temperature hot and cold spots exhibits excellent agreement with the ΛCDM cosmological model, and also gives a clear indication of how Planck provides state-of-the-art measurements of CMB temperature and polarization on degree scales.
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© 2020 Planck Collaboration. Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Received 4 February 2019; Accepted 3 May 2019; Published online 11 September 2020. Planck (http://www.esa.int/Planck) is a project of the European Space Agency (ESA) with instruments provided by two scientific consortia funded by ESA member states and led by Principal Investigators from France and Italy, telescope reflectors provided through a collaboration between ESA and a scientific consortium led and funded by Denmark, and additional contributions from NASA (USA). The Planck Collaboration acknowledges the support of: ESA; CNES, and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MINECO, JA, and RES (Spain); Tekes, AoF, and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway); SFI (Ireland); FCT/MCTES (Portugal); ERC and PRACE (EU). A description of the Planck Collaboration and a list of its members, indicating which technical or scientific activities they have been involved in, can be found at http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/planck/planck-collaboration. This work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement numbers 687312, 776282, and 772253.Attached Files
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- European Space Agency (ESA)
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- Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU)
- Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)
- NASA
- Department of Energy (DOE)
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- United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA)
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
- Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)
- Junta de Andalucía
- Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES)
- Ministry of Employment and the Economy (Finland)
- Academy of Finland
- Finnish IT Center for Science (CSC)
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
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- Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
- DTU Space (Denmark)
- State Secretariat for Education and Research (Switzerland)
- Swiss Space Office (SSO)
- Research Council of Norway
- Science Foundation, Ireland
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
- Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior (MCTES)
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