CMB Anomalies, the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect, and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect: What is Real? @SkyScholar
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Oleg V. Verkhodanov
https://www.sao.ru/Doc-en/Events/2020/Memory/
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O. V. Verkhodanov, Series of Anomalies of low multipoles of WMAP and Planck Missions: What are They? Phys. Part. Nuclei, 2015, 46, 237–247.
https://www1.jinr.ru/publish/Pepan/v-46-2/18_verk.pdf

O. V. Verkhodanov, Low Multipoles Anomalies of CMB Maps, in "Radiative Mechanisms of Astrophysical Objects (V. Grining et al., eds.). Yerevan, 2017, 363-370.

P.M. Robitaille, WMAP: A Radiological Analysis, Progr. Phys. 2007, v. 3, no. 1, 3-18. ptep-online.com/2007/PP-08-01.PDF

D. Larson et al.,Comparing PLANCK and WMAP: Maps, spectra, and parameters, Astrophys. J. 2015, 801, 9.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/801/1/9

G.E. Addison, et al., Quantifying discordance in the 2015 PLANCK CMB spectrum, Astrophys. J. 2016, 818, 132.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-637X/818/2/132

Hinshaw, et al., Three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Temperature Analysis, Astrophys. J. Suppl. Series, 2003, 170, 288-334.
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C. Barnes, et al., First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Galactic Signal Contamination from Side Lobe Pickup, Astrophys. J. Suppl. Series, 2003, 148, 51-62.
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Y. Akrami, et al., Power Asymmetry in WMAP and Planck Temperature Sky Maps as Measured by Local Variance Estimator, Astrophys. J. Lett. 2014, 784(L42),
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Cold Spot
Discovery paper:

M. Cruz, et al., Detection of a non-Gaussian Spot in WMAP, MNRAS 2005, 356(1), 29–40. https://arXiv:astro-ph/0405341

M. Cruz, et al, The non-Gaussian cold spot in Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe: significance, morphology and foreground contribution, MNRAS 2006, 369(1), 57–67.
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Extragalactic radio sources and the WMAP cold spot L. Rudnick, et al., Extragalactic radio sources and the WMAP cold spot Astrophys. J. 2007
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A. Kovács, et al., The DES view of the Eridanus supervoid and the CMB cold spot, MNRAS, 2022, 510(1), 216–229.
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R. Mackenzie, et al, Evidence against a supervoid causing the CMB Cold Spot, MNRAS 2017, 470(2), 2328–2338. academic.oup.com/mnras/article/470/2/2328/3752440?login=false

C.H. Lineweaver, 7: Gold in the Doppler Hills: Cosmological Parameters in the Microwave Background, in “Quantum Fluctuations to Cosmological Structures”, ASP Conference Series 1997, v. 126, 185-205.
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N. Aghanim, et al., Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters, Astron. Astrophys. 2020, A6.
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ABELL CLUSTER
M. Douspis, Planck SZ Clusters, Société Française d’Astronomie et d’Astrophysique (SF2A) 2011.
http://sf2a.eu/semaine-sf2a/2011/proceedings/2011sf2a.conf..0021D.pdf
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Abe et al., Planck early results. VIII. The all-sky early Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample, Astron. Astrophys. 2011, v. 536, A8.
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K. S. Cover, Sky maps without anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background are a better fit to WMAP's uncalibrated time-ordered data than the official sky maps. Europhys. Lett., Volume 87, Number 6, 69003.
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arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0905/0905.3971.pdf

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