Three-Point Correlations in the COBE-DMR Two-Year Anisotropy Maps

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1995-03-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9503033v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages of uuencoded Postscript, including two tables and two figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/187932

We compute the three-point temperature correlation function of the COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer (DMR) two-year sky maps to search for evidence of non-Gaussian temperature fluctuations. We detect three-point correlations in our sky with a substantially higher signal-to-noise ratio than from the first year data. However, the magnitude of the signal is consistent with the level of cosmic variance expected from Gaussian fluctuations, even when the low order multipole moments, up to l = 9, are filtered from the data. These results do not strongly constrain most existing models of structure formation, but the absence of intrinsic three-point correlations on large angular scales is an important consistency test for such models.

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