Author:
Jakubec Clemens,Sullivan Raelyn M.,Scott Douglas
Abstract
Abstract
A great deal of attention has been given to the so-called Cold Spot in maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature.
We present a similar analysis, searching for extremal spots in the CMB lensing convergence and lensing potential maps from the Planck 2018 data release.
We perform a multi-scale and multi-filter analysis using the first three members of the Mexican-hat wavelet family to search for extremal features of different shapes and sizes. Although an initial analysis appears to show the existence of some extremal spots at scales below about 5, we conclude, after marginalising over all scales and filters, that no significant features are detected in the lensing maps. We conclude that in terms of maxima and minima of various sizes, the lensing data have similar statistical properties to Gaussian simulations.
Subject
Astronomy and Astrophysics
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