High-Resolution Simulations of Cosmic Microwave Background non-Gaussian Maps in Spherical Coordinates

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2003-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306248v1

Astrophys.J. 597 (2003) 57-65

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to ApJ. A version with higher quality figures is available at http://www.pd.infn.it/~liguori/con

Scientific paper

10.1086/378394

We describe a new numerical algorithm to obtain high-resolution simulated maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), for a broad class of non-Gaussian models. The kind of non-Gaussianity we account for is based on the simple idea that the primordial gravitational potential is obtained by a non-linear but local mapping from an underlying Gaussian random field, as resulting from a variety of inflationary models. Our technique, which is based on a direct realization of the potential in spherical coordinates and fully accounts for the radiation transfer function, allows to simulate non-Gaussian CMB maps down to the Planck resolution ($\ell_{\rm max} \sim 3,000$), with reasonable memory storage and computational time.

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