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Testing Statistical Isotropy of the CMB: The Effect of Foreground on Lowl Multipoles Jeremy D. Bradford with Dr. Dragan Huterer July 28, 2010

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Page 1: PowerPoint Presentation - Multipole Vector Representation ...jimliu/REU2010/Jeremy_Bradford.pdf · J. D. Bradford – Multipole Representation of the CMB •We came up with statistics

Testing Statistical Isotropy of the CMB: The Effect of Foreground on 

Low‐l Multipoles

Jeremy D. Bradfordwith

Dr. Dragan HutererJuly 28, 2010

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The Universe is Isotropic and Homogeneous

Introduction J. D. Bradford –Multipole Representation of the CMB

•The universe looks the same in all directions

•The universe is uniform, regardless of position

T = 2.725 K

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Temperature Differences

Introduction J. D. Bradford –Multipole Representation of the CMB

•The CMB is isotropic, but has hot and cold spots

•We are interested in the differences in temp ΔT/T, we call the differences anisotropies, and they are distributed like a bell‐shaped curve

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Decomposing the Universe

Project Goals J. D. Bradford –Multipole Representation of the CMB

•The CMB can be decomposed into multipoles using the usual spherical harmonics

•We can also decompose the CMB sky into vectors

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Project Goal

Introduction J. D. Bradford –Multipole Representation of the CMB

•My goal was to see how sensitive we need to be to detect violations of statistical isotropy, using multipole vectors

•Accomplished this with Monte‐Carlo simulations and multipole vectors to test for statistical isotropy

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Foregrounds: Deviations from Gaussianity

Project Goals J. D. Bradford –Multipole Representation of the CMB

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Adding Foregrounds to the Quadrupole

Project Goals J. D. Bradford –Multipole Representation of the CMB

•We used two control foregrounds to test with, we knew what to expect

•Tested for what the picture looked like after foreground was added at various c’s

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m = 0 Foreground Added to l = 2

Introduction J. D. Bradford –Multipole Representation of the CMB

•Item 1

•Item 2

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m = l Foreground Added to l = 2

Introduction J. D. Bradford –Multipole Representation of the CMB

•Item 1

•Item 2

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Measuring Changes in the Vectors

Statistics J. D. Bradford –Multipole Representation of the CMB

•We came up with statistics that we knew would measure the changes in the vectors

•The changes in the vectors were always proportional to the amount of foreground, and demonstrated deviations from statistical isotropy

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Statistics

Statistics J. D. Bradford –Multipole Representation of the CMB

•Topic 1

•Topic 2

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Likelihood Analysis

Statistics J. D. Bradford –Multipole Representation of the CMB

•Topic 1

•Topic 2

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The End

Thank You

Thank You J. D. Bradford –Multipole Representation of the CMB

SourcesBibliography within report.

All borrowed graphics are courtesy of NASA: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov and Dr. Dragan Huterer.

Graphics generated with NASA’s HEALPix software, Mac’s Grapher program, Maple, MS Excel.