COBE-DMR constraints on the nonlinear coupling parameter: a wavelet based method

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2002-11-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0211399v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 339 (2003) 1189

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06269.x

Nonlinearity introduced in slow-roll inflation will produce weakly non-Gaussian CMB temperature fluctuations. We have simulated non-Gaussian large scale CMB maps (including COBE-DMR constraints) introducing an additional quadratic term in the gravitational potential.The amount of nonlinearity being controlled by the so called nonlinear coupling parameter f_{nl}. An analysis based on the Spherical Mexican Hat wavelet was applied to these and to the COBE-DMR maps. Skewness values obtained at several scales were combined into a Fisher discriminant. Comparison of the Fisher discriminant distributions obtained for different nonlinear coupling parameters with the COBE-DMR values, sets a constraint of abs(f_{nl})<1100 at the 68% confidence level. This new constraint being tighter than the one previously obtained by using the bispectrum by Komatsu et al. (2002).

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