Testing large-angle deviation from Gaussianity in CMB maps

Details Testing large-angle deviation from Gaussianity in CMB maps Testing large-angle deviation from Gaussianity in CMB maps

2010-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/1005.0883v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

3 pages. To appear in the Proc. of 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Paris, 12--18 July 2009.

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A detection of the level of non-Gaussianity in the CMB data is essential to discriminate among inflationary models and also to test alternative primordial scenarios. However, the extraction of primordial non-Gaussianity is a difficult endeavor since several effects of non-primordial nature can produce non-Gaussianity. On the other hand, different statistical tools can in principle provide information about distinct forms of non-Gaussianity. Thus, any single statistical estimator cannot be sensitive to all possible forms of non-Gaussianity. In this context, to shed some light in the potential sources of deviation from Gaussianity in CMB data it is important to use different statistical indicators. In a recent paper we proposed two new large-angle non-Gaussianity indicators which provide measures of the departure from Gaussianity on large angular scales. We used these indicators to carry out analyses of non-Gaussianity of the bands and of the foreground-reduced WMAP maps with and without the KQ75 mask. Here we briefly review the formulation of the non-Gaussianity indicators, and discuss the analyses made by using our indicators.

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