On the bispectrum of COBE and WMAP

Details On the bispectrum of COBE and WMAP On the bispectrum of COBE and WMAP

2003-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311096v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 351 (2004) L1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 4 figure, MNRAS submission

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07912.x

The COBE-DMR 4-year maps displayed a strong non-Gaussian signal in the ``inter-scale'' components of the bispectrum: their observed values did not display the scatter expected from Gaussian maps. We re-examine this and other suggested non-Gaussian features in the light of WMAP. We find that they all disappear. Given that it was proved that COBE-DMR high noise levels and documented systematics could at most {\it dilute} the observed non-Gaussian features, we conclude that this dataset must have contained non-negligible undocumented systematic errors. It turns out that the culprit is a combination of QuadCube pixelization and data collected during the ``eclipse season''.

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