The complete bispectrum of COBE-DMR four-year maps

被引:14
作者
Sandvik, HB [1 ]
Magueijo, J [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, London SW7 2BZ, England
关键词
cosmic microwave background; cosmology : observations;
D O I
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04384.x
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We extend a previous bispectrum. analysis of the COBE-DMR four-year maps, allowing for the presence of correlations between all possible angular scales. For reasons of presentation we restrict ourselves to triplets of modes symmetrically arranged, but with larger and larger l separation. We find that the non-Gaussian signal found earlier for bispectrum. components including adjacent modes does not extend to triplets of modes with larger separations. Indeed for all separations Deltal > 1 we find that the COBE-DMR data are very Gaussian. The implication seems to be that the previously detected non-Gaussian scale-scale correlation falls off very quickly with mode separation.
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页码:463 / 467
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