Directional dependence of LCDM cosmological parameters

Abstract

We study hemispherical power asymmetry (Eriksen et. al. 2004, Hansen et. al. 2004, Hansen et. al. 2009) in the WMAP 9-year data. We analyse the combined V- and W-band sky maps, after application of the KQ85 mask, and find that the asymmetry is statistically significant at the 3.4sigma confidence level for ell=2-600, where the data is signal dominated, with a preferred asymmetry direction (l,b)=(227,-27). Individual asymmetry axes estimated from six independent multipole ranges are all consistent with this direction. Subsequently, we estimate cosmological parameters on different parts of the sky and show that the parameters A_s, n_s and Omega_b are the most sensitive to this power asymmetry. In particular, for the two opposite hemispheres aligned with the preferred asymmetry axis, we find n_s = 0.959 \pm 0.022 and n_s = 0.989 \pm 0.024, respectively.

6 pages, 7 figures, published in ApJL

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