Wednesday, May 22, 2013

1305.4794 (Xingang Chen et al.)

Relic Vector Field and CMB Large Scale Anomalies    [PDF]

Xingang Chen, Yi Wang
We study the most general effects of relic vector fields on the inflationary background and density perturbations. Such effects are observable if the number of inflationary e-folds is close to the minimum required to solve the horizon problem. We show that this can potentially explain three CMB large scale anomalies simultaneously: the quadrupole-octopole alignment, the parity anomaly, and the quadrupole power suppression. We also provide analytical template for more detailed data comparison.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4794

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