Search for non-gaussian signals in the BOOMERanG maps: pixel-space analysis

Details Search for non-gaussian signals in the BOOMERanG maps: pixel-space analysis Search for non-gaussian signals in the BOOMERanG maps: pixel-space analysis

2002-01-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0201133v2

Astrophys.J.572:L27-L32,2002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

changes to reflect version accepted by ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/341484

We search the BOOMERanG maps of the anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) for deviations from gaussianity. In this paper we focus on analysis techniques in pixel-space, and compute skewness, kurtosis and Minkowski functionals for the BOOMERanG maps and for gaussian simulations of the CMB sky. We do not find any significant deviation from gaussianity in the high galactic latitude section of the 150 GHz map. We do find deviations from gaussianity at lower latitudes and at 410 GHz, and we ascribe them to Galactic dust contamination. Using non-gaussian simulations of instrumental systematic effects, of foregrounds, and of sample non-gaussian cosmological models, we set upper limits to the non-gaussian component of the temperature field in the BOOMERanG maps. For fluctuations distributed as a 1 DOF $\chi^2$ mixed to the main gaussian component our upper limits are in the few % range.

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