Nearly Full-Sky Low-Multipole CMB Temperature Anisotropy: II. Angular Power Spectra and Likelihood

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Auteurs principaux: Nofi, Hayley C., Addison, Graeme E., Bennett, Charles L., Herold, Laura, Weiland, J. L.
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author Nofi, Hayley C.
Addison, Graeme E.
Bennett, Charles L.
Herold, Laura
Weiland, J. L.
author_facet Nofi, Hayley C.
Addison, Graeme E.
Bennett, Charles L.
Herold, Laura
Weiland, J. L.
contents We present a CMB temperature power spectrum measurement at large angular scales from WMAP and Planck maps that were cleaned of foregrounds using a template-based approach described in a companion paper. We recover essentially the full-sky CMB information at multipoles $\ell<30$ with only 1% of pixels near the Galactic plane masked and no inpainting. Notable features continue to appear: (a) a low quadrupole power compared to the best-fit Planck 2018 $Λ$CDM spectrum at $2.2σ$, (b) a dip in the range $20 \le \ell \le 27$, and (c) an overall $\ell<30$ power level low of the $Λ$CDM prediction derived from higher multipole moments. Given the different methodology from previous analyses and the nearly full-sky solution presented here, these features do not plausibly arise from foreground contamination, systematic errors, masking, or mode-mixing. Our overall $\ell<30$ amplitude constraint is consistent with published WMAP (77% sky fraction) and Planck (86%) results at $1.2σ$ and $0.6σ$, respectively, accounting for the improvement in statistical precision. We present a new $\ell<30$ likelihood for use with the Cobaya package. Parameter constraints from joint fits with the higher-multipole Planck data are consistent with the published Planck results, for example we find $H_0=67.35\pm0.54$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ in a joint $Λ$CDM fit.
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spellingShingle Nearly Full-Sky Low-Multipole CMB Temperature Anisotropy: II. Angular Power Spectra and Likelihood
Nofi, Hayley C.
Addison, Graeme E.
Bennett, Charles L.
Herold, Laura
Weiland, J. L.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We present a CMB temperature power spectrum measurement at large angular scales from WMAP and Planck maps that were cleaned of foregrounds using a template-based approach described in a companion paper. We recover essentially the full-sky CMB information at multipoles $\ell<30$ with only 1% of pixels near the Galactic plane masked and no inpainting. Notable features continue to appear: (a) a low quadrupole power compared to the best-fit Planck 2018 $Λ$CDM spectrum at $2.2σ$, (b) a dip in the range $20 \le \ell \le 27$, and (c) an overall $\ell<30$ power level low of the $Λ$CDM prediction derived from higher multipole moments. Given the different methodology from previous analyses and the nearly full-sky solution presented here, these features do not plausibly arise from foreground contamination, systematic errors, masking, or mode-mixing. Our overall $\ell<30$ amplitude constraint is consistent with published WMAP (77% sky fraction) and Planck (86%) results at $1.2σ$ and $0.6σ$, respectively, accounting for the improvement in statistical precision. We present a new $\ell<30$ likelihood for use with the Cobaya package. Parameter constraints from joint fits with the higher-multipole Planck data are consistent with the published Planck results, for example we find $H_0=67.35\pm0.54$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ in a joint $Λ$CDM fit.
title Nearly Full-Sky Low-Multipole CMB Temperature Anisotropy: II. Angular Power Spectra and Likelihood
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03719