Cosmic Discordance: Detection of a modulation in the primordial fluctuation spectrum

Abstract

As a test of the standard inflationary cosmology, which generically predicts nearly scale-invariant spectrum of primordial curvature fluctuations, we perform Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo analysis to search for possible modulations in the power spectrum and determine its shape together with the cosmological parameters using cosmic microwave background radiation data. By incorporating various three-parameter features on the simple power-law spectrum, we find an oscillatory modulation localized around the comoving wavenumber $k\simeq 0.009{\mathrm{Mpc}}^{-1}$ at 99.995% confidence level which improves the log-likelihood as much as $-\Delta 2\ln \mathcal{L}\equiv \Delta {\chi }_{\mathrm{eff}}^2=-22$. This feature can be detected even if we use only the cross correlation between the temperature and the E-mode polarization anisotropies.

6 pages, 3 figures

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