The Angular Bispectrum of The Cosmic Microwave Background

Details The Angular Bispectrum of The Cosmic Microwave Background The Angular Bispectrum of The Cosmic Microwave Background

1993-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9312004v2

Astrophys.J. 427 (1994) L71

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, Latex, revised version

Scientific paper

10.1086/187367

COBE has provided us with a whole-sky map of the CBR anisotropies. However, even if the noise level is negligible when the four year COBE data are available, the cosmic variance will prevent us from obtaining information about the Gaussian nature of the primordial fluctuations. This important issue is addressed here by studying the angular bispectrum of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies. A general form of the angular bispectrum is given and the cosmic variance of the angular bispectrum for Gaussian fluctuations is calculated. The advantage of using the angular bispectrum is that one can choose to use the multipole moments which minimize the cosmic variance term. The non-Gaussian signals in most physically motivated non-Gaussian models are small compared with cosmic variance. Unless the amplitudes are large, the non-Gaussian signals are only detectable in the COBE data in those models where the angular bispectrum is flat or increases with increasing multipole moment.

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