Structures in the microwave background radiation

Abstract

We compare the actual WMAP maps with artificial, purely statistical maps of the same harmonic content to argue that there are, with confidence level 99.7 %, ring-type structures in the observed cosmic microwave background.

4 pages, 2 figures

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