Angular trispectrum of CMB temperature anisotropy from primordial non-Gaussianity with the full radiation transfer function

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作者
Kogo, N [1 ]
Komatsu, E
机构
[1] Osaka Univ, Grad Sch Sci, Dept Earth & Space Sci, Toyonaka, Osaka 5600043, Japan
[2] Kyoto Univ, Yukawa Inst Theoret Phys, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
[3] Univ Texas, Dept Astron, Austin, TX 78712 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2006年 / 73卷 / 08期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.73.083007
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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We calculate the cosmic microwave background (CMB) angular trispectrum, spherical harmonic transform of the four-point correlation function, from primordial non-Gaussianity in primordial curvature perturbations characterized by a constant nonlinear coupling parameter, f(NL). We fully take into account the effect of the radiation transfer function, and thus provide the most accurate estimate of the signal-to-noise ratio of the angular trispectrum of CMB temperature anisotropy. We find that the predicted signal-to-noise ratio of the trispectrum summed up to a given l is approximately a power-law, (S/N)(< l)similar to 2.2x10(-9)f(NL)(2)l(2), up to the maximum multipole that we have reached in our numerical calculation, l=1200, assuming that the error is dominated by cosmic variance. Our results indicate that the signal-to-noise ratio of the temperature trispectrum exceeds that of the bispectrum at the critical multipole, l(c)similar to 1500(50/\f(NL)\). Therefore, the trispectrum of the Planck data is more sensitive to primordial non-Gaussianity than the bispectrum for \f(NL)\greater than or similar to 50. We also report the predicted constraints on the amplitude of trispectrum, which may be useful for other non-Gaussian models such as curvaton models.
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