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The low multipole anomalies of the Cosmic Microwave Background has receivedmuch attention during the last few years. It is still not ascertained whetherthese anomalies are indeed primordial or the result of systematics orforegrounds. An example of a foreground, which could generate some non-Gaussianand statistically anisotropic features at low multipole range, is the verysymmetric Kuiper Belt in the outer solar system. In this paper, expanding uponthe methods presented by Maris et al. (2011), we investigate the contributionsfrom the Kuiper Belt objects (KBO) to the WMAP ILC 7 map, whereby we canminimize the contrast in power between even and odd multipoles in the CMB,discussed discussed by Kim & Naselsky (2010). We submit our KBO de-correlatedCMB signal to several tests, to analyze its validity, and find thatincorporation of the KBO emission can decrease the quadrupole-octupolealignment and parity asymmetry problems, provided that the KBO signals has anon-cosmological dipole modulation, associated with the statistical anisotropyof the ILC 7 map. Additionally, we show that the amplitude of the dipolemodulation, within a 2 sigma interval, is in agreement with the correspondingamplitudes, discussed by Lew (2008).

Can residuals of the Solar system foreground explain low multipole anomalies of the CMB ?