Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2012-04-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
4pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. Contribution to the proceedings of the International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology, Goa
Scientific paper
The population of compact extragalactic sources contribute to the non-Gaussianity at Cosmic Microwave Background frequencies. We study their non-Gaussianity using publicly available full-sky simulations. We introduce a parametrisation to visualise efficiently the bispectrum and we describe the scale and frequency dependences of the bispectrum of radio and IR point-sources. We show that the bispectrum is well fitted by an analytical prescription. We find that the clustering of IR sources enhances their non-Gaussianity by several orders of magnitude, and that their bispectrum peaks in the squeezed triangles. Examining the impact of these sources on primordial non-Gaussianity estimation, we find that radio sources yield an important positive bias to local fNL at low frequencies but this bias is efficiently reduced by masking detectable sources. IR sources produce a negative bias at high frequencies, which is not dimmed by the masking, as their clustering is dominated by faint sources.
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