talk given at kobayashi-maskawa institute, nagoya university, japan
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Cosmic Anomalies Observational measurements of the temperature variation of the Cosmic Microwave Background across the celestial sphere made by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and, more recently Planck, have played a major part in establishing the standard "concordance" cosmological model. However, extensive statistical analysis of these data have also revealed some tantalising anomalies whose interpretation within the standard framework is by no means clear. In this talk, I'll discuss the significance of the evidence for some aspects of this anomalous behaviour, offer some possible theoretical models, and suggest how future measurements may provide firmer conclusions.TRANSCRIPT
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Cosmic AnomaliesCosmic Anomalies
Peter ColesPeter Coles
(University of Sussex)(University of Sussex)
Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute, NagoyaKobayashi-Maskawa Institute, Nagoya
Thursday 16Thursday 16thth January 2014 January 2014
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The Meaning of Inflation (OED)
1. The action of inflating or distending with air or gas
2. The condition of being inflated with air or gas, or being distended or swollen as if with air
3. The condition of being puffed up with vanity, pride or baseless notions
4. The quality of language or style when it is swollen with big or pompous words; turgidity, bombast
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“CONCORDANCE”
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Planck Time!
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Theories
Observations
FrequentistBayesian
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Cosmology is an exercise in data compression
Cosmology is a very efficient exercise in data compression...
….but it is always worth looking at the information thrown away to check that nothing has been missed!
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Precision Cosmology
“…as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know.”
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Is there an Elephant in the Room?
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How Weird is the Universe?
• The (zero-th order) starting point is FLRW.
• The concordance cosmology is a “first-order” perturbation to this
• In it (and other “first-order” models), the initial fluctuations were a statistically homogeneous and isotropic Gaussian Random Field (GRF)
• These are the “maximum entropy” initial conditions having “random phases” motivated by inflation.
• Anything else would be weird….
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Precision Cosmology
“…as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know.”
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There are many ways of being weird!
• Initial Perturbations:
• Non-stationary fluctuations, e.g. statistical anisotropy from a vector field?
• Global inhomogeneity or anisotropy• Non-trivial topology, etc…
Φ=Φ L+f NL [Φ L2 −⟨Φ L
2 ⟩ ]
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Weird Topology
• GR is a local theory• Simplest topology
chosen in standard models, e.g sphere.
• Small universes suppress power on large scales…but introduce phase correlations (Dineen, Rocha & Coles, MNRAS, 358, 1285)
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Fourier Phases
• The usual thing• where• In a homogeneous and isotropic GRF
then the phases are random...• ..apart from • ..as are differences, e.g. • The power spectrum
δ ( x )=∑k
δ ( k ) exp ( ik⋅x )
δ (k )=∣δ (k )∣exp [ iϕ k ]
ϕ
δ✳( k )=δ (−k )ϕ k 1
−ϕ k 2
P ( k )∝⟨∣δ ( k )∣2 ⟩
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The Bispectrum
• The power spectrum is blind to phase information
• Phase information is encoded in an infinite hierarchy of polyspectra, e.g. the bispectrum:
• Averaging is done over triangles in k-space• This measures a specific form of phase
coupling; quadratic phase coupling, so it is tailor-made for quadratic non-Gaussianity
⟨δ (k 1)δ (k 2 )δ✳( k1+ k2 )⟩=⟨δ ( k1 )δ ( k2 )δ (−k 1−k 2) ⟩
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Quadratic Phase Coupling
arg ( δ 1 δ 2 δ−( 1+ 2 ) )=φ 1+φ 2− φ 1 + 2
k 1
−( k 1+ k 2 )
k 2
(δ 1+δ 2 )2⇒(2 k 1 ,2φ1 )+ (2 k 2 ,2φ2)+ ( k1+ k2,φ 1+φ2 )
δ 1=exp ( i k1⋅x+φ 1)⇒( k1 ,φ 1)δ 2=exp( i k2⋅x +φ2 )⇒( k2 ,φ 2 )
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Weirdness in Phases
ΔT (θ,φ )T
=∑∑ a l,mY lm (θ,φ )
a l,m=∣al,m∣exp [ iϕ l,m]
For a homogeneous and isotropic Gaussian random field (on the sphere) the phases are independent and uniformly distributed. Non-random phases therefore indicate weirdness..
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Spherical Harmonic Phases
• The usual thing• where• If the fluctuations are a
homogeneous and isotropic GRF then the phases are random...
• ..apart from • ..as are differences, e.g.
ΔT (θ,φ )T
=∑∑ a l,mY lm (θ,φ )
a l,m=∣al,m∣exp [ iϕ l,m]
ϕ l,m
a lm✳=al,−m
ϕ l,m− ϕ l,m−1
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Zonal (m=0)
Sectoral (m=l)
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Theories
Observations
FrequentistBayesian
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Suspects
Evidence
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P( A∣M )≠P (M∣A )!
Beware the Prosecutor’s Fallacy!
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“If tortured sufficiently, data will confess to almost
anything”
Fred Menger
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Types of CMB Anomalies
• Type I – obvious problems with data (e.g. foregrounds)
• Type II – anisotropies and alignments (North-South, Axis of Evil..)
• Type III – localized features, e.g. “The Cold Spot”
• Type IV – Something else (even/odd multipoles, magnetic fields, ?)
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m
l
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Low Quadrupole?
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Parity Violation?
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(from Hansen et al. 2004)
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(from Copi et al. 2005)
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Hanson & Lewis, arXiv:0908.0963
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Global Asymmetry?• It has been suggested that the answer
may be departure from FRW cosmology, e.g. Bianchi (homogenous but anisotropic)
• This can trivially solve the quadrupole problem (e.g. Bianchi I is a pure quadrupole)
• Such models produce a specific polarization pattern which is set by the temperature pattern.
• These (almost) inevitably have a large B-mode…
(Pontzen & Challinor 2007; Pontzen 2009; Sung & Coles 2009; Sung & Coles 2010)
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Friedman-Robertson-Walker
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Bianchi I
0, 0
0ia n
R
Bianchi vectorsScalar curvature
Temperature
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Bianchi VTemperature
2
0, 0
6
ia n
R a
Bianchi vectorsScalar curvature
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Bianchi VPolarization
Amplitude
Stokes parameter:
Q and U
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Bianchi VII0
Bianchi vectorsScalar curvature
Temperature
1 2 30, 0, 0
0
a n n n
R
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Bianchi VII0
Stokes parameter:
Q and U
Polarization
Amplitude
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Bianchi VIIh
Bianchi vectorsScalar curvature
Temperature
1 2 3
2
0, 0, 0
6
a n n n
R a
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Bianchi VIIh
Stokes parameter:
Q and U
Polarization
Amplitude
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Bianchi IX
Bianchi vectorsScalar curvature
Temperature
1 2 3
2 2 21 2 3
0, 0
1( )
2
a n n n
R n n n
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Bianchi IX
Stokes parameter:
Q and U
Polarization
Amplitude
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Wise Words from WMAP (7)arXiv:1001.4758
In this paper we examine potential anomalies and present analyses and assessments of their significance. In most cases we find that claimed anomalies depend on posterior selection of some aspect or subset of the data. Compared with sky simulations based on the best fit model, one can select for low probability features of the WMAP data. Low probability features are expected, but it is not usually straightforward to determine whether any particular low probability feature is the result of the a posteriori selection or of non-standard cosmology…..We conclude that there is no compelling evidence for deviations from the LCDM model, which is generally an acceptable statistical fit to WMAP and other cosmological data.
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Summary
• The concordance cosmology has had many successes, but that doesn’t make it the Gospel truth.
• There is intriguing evidence suggesting that the Universe might be more interesting than we thought..
• Focussing exclusively on measuring parameters of the standard model may result in us missing the Elephant in the Room.
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A. There’s no problem at all with CDM…
B. There are interesting indications…
C. There’s definitely evidence of new physics