On large angular scales (≳ 60°), the two-point angular correlation function of the
temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), as measured (outside of the plane
of the Galaxy) by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, shows significantly lower large …

Two-point correlation functions of cosmic microwave background polarization provide a
physically independent probe of the surprising suppression of correlations in the cosmic
microwave background temperature anisotropies at large angular scales. We investigate …

We discuss selected large-scale anomalies in the maps of temperature anisotropies in the
cosmic microwave background. Specfically, these include alignments of the largest modes
of CMB anisotropy with one another and with the geometry and direction of motion of the …

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) full-sky temperature data show a hemispherical
asymmetry in power nearly aligned with the Ecliptic. In real space, this anomaly can be
quantified by the temperature variance in the Northern and Southern Ecliptic hemispheres …

The anomalous lack of large-angle temperature correlations has been a surprising feature of
the cosmic microwave background (CMB) since first observed by COBE-DMR and
subsequently confirmed and strengthened by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe …

A lack of correlations in the microwave background temperature between sky directions
separated by angles larger than 60° has recently been confirmed by data from the Planck
satellite. This feature arises as a random occurrence within the standard Λ cold dark matter …