Cleaned Three-Year WMAP CMB Map: Magnitude of the Quadrupole and Alignment of Large Scale Modes

Chan-Gyung Park, Changbom Park, J. Richard Gott

[Abridged] We have produced a cleaned map of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 3-year data using an improved foreground subtraction technique. We perform an internal…