The integrated bispectrum as a test of CMB non-Gaussianity: detection power and limits on f_NL with WMAP data

Details The integrated bispectrum as a test of CMB non-Gaussianity: detection power and limits on f_NL with WMAP data The integrated bispectrum as a test of CMB non-Gaussianity: detection power and limits on f_NL with WMAP data

2005-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512112v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.369:819-824,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10339.x

We propose a fast and efficient bispectrum statistic for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies to constrain the amplitude of the primordial non-Gaussian signal measured in terms of the non-linear coupling parameter f_NL. We show how the method can achieve a remarkable computational advantage by focussing on subsets of the multipole configurations, where the non-Gaussian signal is more concentrated. The detection power of the test, increases roughly linearly with the maximum multipole, as shown in the ideal case of an experiment without noise and gaps. The CPU-time scales as l_{max}^3 instead of l_{max}^5 for the full bispectrum which for Planck resolution l_{max} \sim 3000 means an improvement in speed of a factor 10^7 compared to the full bispectrum analysis with minor loss in precision. We find that the introduction of a galactic cut partially destroys the optimality of the configuration, which will then need to be dealt with in the future. We find for an ideal experiment with l_{max}=2000 that upper limits of f_{NL}<8 can be obtained at 1 sigma. For the case of the WMAP experiment, we would be able to put limits of |f_{NL}|<40 if no galactic cut were present. Using the real data with galactic cut, we obtain an estimate of -80

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