Primordial Bispectrum Information from CMB Polarization

Details Primordial Bispectrum Information from CMB Polarization Primordial Bispectrum Information from CMB Polarization

2004-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408455v1

Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 083005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To be submitted to PRD, 25 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.083005

After the precise observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy power spectrum, attention is now being focused on the higher order statistics of the CMB anisotropies. Since linear evolution preserves the statistical properties of the initial conditions, observed non-Gaussianity of the CMB will mirror primordial non-Gaussianity. Single field slow-roll inflation robustly predicts negligible non-Gaussianity so an indication of non-Gaussianity will suggest alternative scenarios need to be considered. In this paper we calculate the information on primordial non-Gaussianity encoded in the polarization of the CMB. After deriving the optimal weights for a cubic estimator we evaluate the Signal-to-Noise ratio of the estimator for WMAP, Planck and an ideal cosmic variance limited experiment. We find that when the experiment can observe CMB polarization with good sensitivity, the sensitivity to primordial non-Gaussianity increases by roughly a factor of two. We also test the weakly non-Gaussian assumption used to derive the optimal weight factor by calculating the degradation factor produced by the gravitational lensing induced connected four-point function. The physical scales in the radiative transfer functions are largely irrelevant for the constraints on the primordial non-Gaussianity. We show that the total (S/N)^2 is simply proportional to the number of observed pixels on the sky.

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