A Comprehensive Overview of the Cold Spot

Figure 12

Radial profile (solid blue/red lines) of a cosmic texture, as given in (14). The parameters defining this profile are 𝜀=10⁻⁴ and 𝜗_𝑐=5^∘. The dashed lines represent the truncated values of the profiles given by (13) (blue) and the Gaussian function (red). See text for details.