Report on 3 and 4-point correlation statistics in the COBE DMR anisotrophy maps

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Jun 1996

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Technical Report, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States Lab. for Astronomy and Solar Physics/GSFC.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Statistical Correlation, Anisotropy, Astrophysics, Astronomical Models, Galactic Evolution, Skewness, Kurtosis, Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite, Galaxies

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As part of the work performed under NASA contract # NAS5-32648, we have computed the 3-point and 4-point correlation functions of the COBE-DNIR 2-year and 4-year anisotropy maps. The motivation for this study was to search for evidence of non-Gaussian statistical fluctuations in the temperature maps: skewness or asymmetry in the case of the 3-point function, kurtosis in the case of the 4-point function. Such behavior would have very significant implications for our understanding of the processes of galaxy formation, because our current models of galaxy formation predict that non-Gaussian features should not be present in the DMR maps. The results of our work showed that the 3-point correlation function is consistent with zero and that the 4-point function is not a very sensitive probe of non-Gaussian behavior in the COBE-DMR data. Our computation and analysis of 3-point correlations in the 2-year DMR maps was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, volume 446, page L67, 1995. Our computation and analysis of 3-point correlations in the 4-year DMR maps will be published, together with some additional tests, in the June 10, 1996 issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Copies of both of these papers are attached as an appendix to this report.

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