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Paper   IPM / Astronomy / 13651
School of Astronomy
  Title:   CMB statistical anisotropies of classical and quantum origins
  Author(s): 
1.  X. Chen
2.  R. Emami
3.  H. Firouzjahi
4.  Yi. Wang
  Status:   Published
  Journal: JCAP
  Vol.:  2015
  Year:  2015
  Pages:   16
  Supported by:            ipm IPM
  Abstract:
We examine the impact of different anisotropic relics on inflation, in particular the predictions on the density perturbations. These relics can be the source of the large scale anomalies in the cosmic microwave background. There are two different types of background relics, one from the matter sector and the other purely from the metric. Although the angular-dependence of the statistical anisotropy in both cases are degenerate, the scale-dependence are observationally distinctive. In addition, we demonstrate that non-Bunch-Davies vacuum states can extend the statistical anisotropy to much shorter scales, and leave a scale-dependence that is insensitive to the different backgrounds but sensitive to the initial quantum state.

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