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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 773, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/773/1/L3
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cosmic background radiation; cosmology: observations; methods: statistical
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- Norwegian research council
- ERC [StG2010-257080]
- NASA office for Space Science
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We study hemispherical power asymmetry in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe 9 yr data. We analyze the combined V- and W-band sky maps, after application of the KQ85 mask, and find that the asymmetry is statistically significant at the 3.4 sigma confidence level for l = 2-600, where the data are signal-dominated, with a preferred asymmetry direction (l, b) = (227,-27). Individual asymmetry axes estimated from six independent multipole ranges are all consistent with this direction. Subsequently, we estimate cosmological parameters on different parts of the sky and show that the parameters A(s), n(s), and Omega(b) are the most sensitive to this power asymmetry. In particular, for the two opposite hemispheres aligned with the preferred asymmetry axis, we find n(s) = 0.959 +/- 0.022 and n(s) = 0.989 +/- 0.024, respectively.
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