On the CMB large-scales angular correlations

Abstract

We study the large-scale angular correlation signatures of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature fluctuations from WMAP data in several spherical cap regions of the celestial sphere, outside the Kp0 or Kp2 cut-sky masks. We applied a recently proposed method to CMB temperature maps, which permits an accurate analysis of their angular correlations in the celestial sphere through the use of normalized histograms of the number of pairs of such objects with a given angular separation versus their angular separation. The method allows for a better comparison of the results from observational data with the expected CMB angular correlations of a statistically isotropic Universe, computed from Monte Carlo maps according to the WMAP best-fit Lambda CDM model. We found that the, already known, anomalous lack of large-scale power in full-sky CMB maps are mainly due to missing angular correlations of quadrupole-like signature. This result is robust with respect to frequency CMB maps and cut-sky masks. Moreover, we also confirm previous results regarding the unevenly distribution in the sky of the large-scale power of WMAP data. In a bin-to-bin correlations analyses, measured by the full covariance matrix chi^2 statistic, we found that the angular correlations signatures in opposite Galactic hemispheres are anomalous at the 98%-99% confidence level.

7 pages, 11 color figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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