Removal of two large-scale cosmic microwave background anomalies after subtraction of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect

2013 
Context. Although there is currently a debate over the signicance of the claimed large-scale anomalies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), their existence is not totally dismissed. In parallel to the debate over their statistical signicance, recent work has also focussed on masks and secondary anisotropies as potential sources of these anomalies. Aims. In this work we investigate simultaneously the impact of the method used to account for masked regions as well as the impact of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) eect, which is the large-scale secondary anisotropy most likely to aect the CMB anomalies. In this sense, our work is an update of both Francis & Peacock 2010 and Kim et al. 2012.
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