Bianchi VII_h models and the cold spot texture

Understand

We have returned to our previous Bianchi VII_h analysis in light of the Cruz et al.

• 2007 suggestion that the cold spot observed near the southern Galactic pole may be a remnant temperature perturbation of a cosmic texture.
• In Bridges et al.
• 2006b we found two favoured left handed Bianchi VII_h templates with restricted prior probabilities so that the template was centred close to the cold spot.