CMB lensing and giant rings

Ben Rathaus*, Nissan Itzhaki

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Abstract

We study the CMB lensing signature of a pre-inationary particle (PIP), assuming it is responsible for the giant rings anomaly that was found recently in the WMAP data. Simulating Planck-like data we find that generically the CMB lensing signal to noise ratio associated with such a PIP is quite small and it would be difficult to cross correlate the temperature giant rings with the CMB lensing signal. However, if the pre-inationary particle is also responsible for the bulk flow measured from the local large scale structure, which happens to point roughly at the same direction as the giant rings, then the CMB lensing signal to noise ratio is fairly significant.

Original languageEnglish
Article number006
JournalJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume2012
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2012

Funding

FundersFunder number
Seventh Framework Programme203247

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