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Bayesian analysis of anisotropic cosmologies: Bianchi VII_h and WMAP | | J. D. McEwen
; T. Josset
; S. M. Feeney
; H. V. Peiris
; A. N. Lasenby
; | | Date: |
14 Mar 2013 | | Abstract: | We perform a definitive analysis of Bianchi VII_h cosmologies with WMAP
observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies.
Bayesian analysis techniques are developed to study anisotropic cosmologies
using full-sky and partial-sky, masked CMB temperature data. We apply these
techniques to analyse the full-sky internal linear combination (ILC) map and a
partial-sky, masked W-band map of WMAP 9-year observations. In addition to the
physically motivated Bianchi VII_h model, we examine phenomenological models
considered in previous studies, in which the Bianchi VII_h parameters are
decoupled from the standard cosmological parameters. In the two
phenomenological models considered, Bayes factors of 1.7 and 1.1 units of
log-evidence favouring a Bianchi component are found in full-sky ILC data. The
corresponding best-fit Bianchi maps recovered are similar for both
phenomenological models and are very close to those found in previous studies
using earlier WMAP data releases. However, no evidence for a phenomenological
Bianchi component is found in the partial-sky W-band data. In the physical
Bianchi VII_h model we find no evidence for a Bianchi component: WMAP data thus
do not favour Bianchi VII_h cosmologies over the standard Lambda Cold Dark
Matter (LCDM) cosmology. It is not possible to discount Bianchi VII_h
cosmologies in favour of LCDM completely, but we are able to constrain the
vorticity of physical Bianchi VII_h cosmologies at $(omega/H)_0 < 8.6 imes
10^{-10}$ with 95% confidence. | | Source: | arXiv, 1303.3409 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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