Modeling the large-scale power deficit with smooth and discontinuous primordial spectra

Abstract

We investigate a set of cosmological models for which the primordial power spectrum has a large-scale power deficit. The standard power-law spectrum is subject to long-wavelength modifications described by some new parameters, resulting in corrections to the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. The new parameters are fitted to different data sets: temperature only, temperature and polarization, the low-redshift determination of $H_0$, and baryonic acoustic oscillations. We discuss the statistical significance of the modified spectra, from both frequentist and Bayesian perspectives. Our analysis suggests motivations for considering models that break scalar-tensor consistency, or models with negligible power in the far super-Hubble limit. We present what appears to be substantial evidence for a new scale around 350 Mpc above which the primordial (scalar) power spectrum is sharply reduced by about 20%.

25 pages, 7 figures

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