Direct measurement of the angular power spectrum of cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropies in the WMAP Data
arXiv:1108.5824 · doi:10.1088/0004-637X/751/1/43
Abstract
Angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies is one of the most important on characteristics of the Universe such as its geometry and total density. Using flat sky approximation and Fourier analysis, we estimate the angular power spectrum from an ensemble of least foreground-contaminated square patches from WMAP W and V frequency band map. This method circumvents the issue of foreground cleaning and that of breaking orthogonality in spherical harmonic analysis due to masking out the bright Galactic plane region, thereby rendering a direct measurement of the angular power spectrum. We test and confirm Gaussian statistical characteristic of the selected patches, from which the first and second acoustic peak of the power spectrum are reproduced, and the third peak is clearly visible albeit with some noise residual at the tail.
13 pages, 5 figures
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