Scale of homogeneity of the universe from WMAP

Patrícia G. Castro, Marian Douspis, Pedro G. Ferreira
2003 Physical Review D, Particles and fields  
We review the physics of the Grishchuck-Zel'dovich effect which describes the impact of large amplitude, super-horizon gravitational field fluctuations on the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy power spectrum. Using the latest determination of the spectrum by WMAP, we infer a lower limit on the present length-scale of such fluctuations of 3927 times the cosmological particle horizon (at the 95% confidence level).
doi:10.1103/physrevd.68.127301 fatcat:q4arcxzonnbmralmzi46f3dg5m