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Constraints on the birth of the universe and origin of cosmic dark flow

Garnavich, P.; Mathews, G. J.; Gangopadhyay, M. R. +4 more

We summarize three recent efforts to constrain the first few moments of cosmic creation before and during the epoch of inflation. We consider two means to explain a slight dip in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background for multipoles in the range of ℓ = 10-30 from both the Planck and WMAP data. We show that such a dip could be the re…