Parity in the CMB: Space Oddity

Assaf Ben-David; Ely D. Kovetz; Nissan Itzhaki

Parity in the CMB: Space Oddity

Assaf Ben-David, Ely D. Kovetz, Nissan Itzhaki

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Abstract

We search the CMB sky for a direction that exhibits parity symmetry under reflections through a plane. We mask outlying regions in the Galactic plane and find a distinct direction of odd parity at a significance level of above 3.5σ.

Original language	English
Pages	87-90
Number of pages	4
State	Published - 1 Jan 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	47th Rencontres de Moriond on Cosmology 2012 - La Thuile, Italy Duration: 10 Mar 2012 → 17 Mar 2012

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Conference	47th Rencontres de Moriond on Cosmology 2012
Country/Territory	Italy
City	La Thuile
Period	10/03/12 → 17/03/12

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Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Parity in the CMB: Space Oddity

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