Non-Gaussianity in WMAP Data Due to the Correlation of CMB Lensing Potential with Secondary Anisotropies

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2009-09-09

arxiv.org/abs/0909.1837v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

11 pages, 7 figures

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We measure the skewness power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies optimized for a detection of the secondary bispectrum generated by the correlation of the CMB lensing potential with integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. The covariance of our measurements is generated by Monte-Carlo simulations of Gaussian CMB fields with noise properties consistent with Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 5-year data. When interpreting multi-frequency measurements we also take into account the confusion resulting from unresolved radio point sources. We analyze Q, V and W-band WMAP 5-year raw and foreground-cleaned maps using the KQ75 mask out to l_max=600. We find no significant evidence for a non-zero non-Gaussian signal from the lensing-secondary correlation in all three bands and we constrain the overall amplitude of the cross power spectrum between CMB lensing potential and the sum of SZ and ISW fluctuations to be 0.42 \pm 0.86 and 1.19 \pm 0.86 in combined V and W-band raw and foreground-cleaned maps provided by the WMAP team, respectively. The point source amplitude at the bispectrum level measured with this skewness power spectrum is higher than previous measurements of point source non-Gaussianity. We also consider an analysis where we also account for the primordial non-Gaussianity in addition to lensing-secondary bispectrum and point sources. The focus of this paper is on secondary anisotropies. Consequently the estimator is not optimised for primordial non-Gaussianity and the limit we find on local non-Gaussianity from the foreground-cleaned V+W maps is f_NL = -13 \pm 62, when marginalized over point sources and lensing-ISW/SZ constributions to the total bispectrum.

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