Cayón, L. and Banday, A. J. and Jaffe, T. and Eriksen, H. K. and Hansen, F. K. and Gorski, K. M. and Jin, J. (2006) No Higher Criticism of the Bianchi-corrected Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 369 (2). pp. 598-602. ISSN 0035-8711. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20110218-095850481
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Abstract
Higher Criticism (HC) has been proposed by Donoho & Jin as an effective statistic to detect deviations from Gaussianity. Motivated by the success of the Bianchi VIIh model in addressing many of the anomalies observed in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data (Jaffe et al.), we present calculations in real and in wavelet space of the HC statistic of the Bianchi-corrected WMAP first-year data. At the wavelet scale of 5°, the HC of the WMAP map drops from a value above the 99 per cent confidence level (c.l.) to a value below the 68 per cent CL when corrected by the Bianchi template. An important property of the HC statistic is its ability to locate the pixels that account for the deviation from Gaussianity. The analysis of the uncorrected WMAP data pointed to a cold spot in the Southern hemisphere, centred at l ~ 209°, b ~ −57°. The HC of the Bianchi-corrected map indicates that this spot remains prominent, albeit at a level completely consistent with Gaussian statistics. Consequently, it is debatable how much emphasis should be placed on this residual feature, but we consider the effect of modestly increasing the scaling of the template. A factor of only 1.2 renders the spot indistinguishable from the background level, with no noticeable impact on the results published in Jaffe et al. for the low-l anomalies, large-scale power asymmetry or wavelet kurtosis. A trivial interpretation would be that the Bianchi template may require a small enhancement of power on scales corresponding to the wavelet scale of 5°.
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Additional Information: | © 2006 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2006 RAS. Accepted 2006 March 20. Received 2006 March 17; in original form 2005 December 13. Article first published online: 5 May 2006. We thank P. Vielva for providing the extended masks used at different wavelet scales.We acknowledge the use of the LAMBDA. Support for LAMBDA is provided by the NASA Office of Space Science. Some of the results in this paper have been derived using the HEALPIX (Górski, Hivon & Wandelt 1999) package. | |||||||||
Subject Keywords: | methods: statistical; cosmic microwave background; cosmology: miscellaneous | |||||||||
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Official Citation: | Cayón, L., Banday, A. J., Jaffe, T., Eriksen, H. K., Hansen, F. K., Gorski, K. M. and Jin, J. (2006), No Higher Criticism of the Bianchi-corrected Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 369: 598–602. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10381.x | |||||||||
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Deposited By: | Jason Perez | |||||||||
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