2010

New constraints on Parity Symmetry from a re-analysis of the WMAP-7 low resolution power spectra

Gruppuso, A., Finelli, F., Natoli, P. et al.

Understand

The Parity symmetry of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) pattern as seen by WMAP 7 is tested jointly in temperature and polarization at large angular scale.

  • A Quadratic Maximum Likelihood (QML) estimator is applied to the WMAP 7 year low resolution maps to compute all polarized CMB angular power spectra.
  • The analysis is supported by 10000 realistic Monte-Carlo realizations.
  • We confirm the previously reported Parity anomaly for TT in the range $\delta \ell=[2,22]$ at $> 99.5%$ C.L..

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