Bibcode
Planck Collaboration; Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Akrami, Y.; Aluri, P. K.; Arnaud, M.; Ashdown, M.; Aumont, J.; Baccigalupi, C.; Banday, A. J.; Barreiro, R. B.; Bartolo, N.; Basak, S.; Battaner, E.; Benabed, K.; Benoît, A.; Benoit-Lévy, A.; Bernard, J.-P.; Bersanelli, M.; Bielewicz, P.; Bock, J. J.; Bonaldi, A.; Bonavera, L.; Bond, J. R.; Borrill, J.; Bouchet, F. R.; Boulanger, F.; Bucher, M.; Burigana, C.; Butler, R. C.; Calabrese, E.; Cardoso, J.-F.; Casaponsa, B.; Catalano, A.; Challinor, A.; Chamballu, A.; Chiang, H. C.; Christensen, P. R.; Church, S.; Clements, D. L.; Colombi, S.; Colombo, L. P. L.; Combet, C.; Contreras, D.; Couchot, F.; Coulais, A.; Crill, B. P.; Cruz, M.; Curto, A.; Cuttaia, F.; Danese, L.; Davies, R. D.; Davis, R. J.; de Bernardis, P.; de Rosa, A.; de Zotti, G.; Delabrouille, J.; Désert, F.-X.; Diego, J. M.; Dole, H.; Donzelli, S.; Doré, O.; Douspis, M.; Ducout, A.; Dupac, X.; Efstathiou, G.; Elsner, F.; Enßlin, T. A.; Eriksen, H. K.; Fantaye, Y.; Fergusson, J.; Fernandez-Cobos, R.; Finelli, F.; Forni, O.; Frailis, M.; Fraisse, A. A.; Franceschi, E.; Frejsel, A.; Frolov, A.; Galeotta, S.; Galli, S.; Ganga, K.; Gauthier, C.; Ghosh, T.; Giard, M.; Giraud-Héraud, Y.; Gjerløw, E.; González-Nuevo, J.; Górski, K. M.; Gratton, S.; Gregorio, A.; Gruppuso, A.; Gudmundsson, J. E.; Hansen, F. K.; Hanson, D.; Harrison, D. L.; Henrot-Versillé, S.; Hernández-Monteagudo, C.; Herranz, D.; Hildebrandt, S. R. et al.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 594, id.A16, 62 pp.
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2016
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Description
We test the statistical isotropy and Gaussianity of the cosmic microwave
background (CMB) anisotropies using observations made by the Planck
satellite. Our results are based mainly on the full Planck mission for
temperature, but also include some polarization measurements. In
particular, we consider the CMB anisotropy maps derived from the
multi-frequency Planck data by several component-separation methods. For
the temperature anisotropies, we find excellent agreement between
results based on these sky maps over both a very large fraction of the
sky and a broad range of angular scales, establishing that potential
foreground residuals do not affect our studies. Tests of skewness,
kurtosis, multi-normality, N-point functions, and Minkowski functionals
indicate consistency with Gaussianity, while a power deficit at large
angular scales is manifested in several ways, for example low map
variance. The results of a peak statistics analysis are consistent with
the expectations of a Gaussian random field. The "Cold Spot" is detected
with several methods, including map kurtosis, peak statistics, and mean
temperature profile. We thoroughly probe the large-scale dipolar power
asymmetry, detecting it with several independent tests, and address the
subject of a posteriori correction. Tests of directionality suggest the
presence of angular clustering from large to small scales, but at a
significance that is dependent on the details of the approach. We
perform the first examination of polarization data, finding the
morphology of stacked peaks to be consistent with the expectations of
statistically isotropic simulations. Where they overlap, these results
are consistent with the Planck 2013 analysis based on the nominal
mission data and provide our most thorough view of the statistics of the
CMB fluctuations to date.