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WMAP温度各向异性的Minkowski泛函对原始非高斯性的限制

Limits on Primordial Non-Gaussianity from Minkowski Functionals of the WMAP Temperature Anisotropies

Chiaki Hikage, Takahiko Matsubara, Peter Coles, Michele Liguori, Frode K. Hansen, Sabino Matarrese

摘要:

我们提出了一个分析的闵可夫斯基泛函(MF)描述的WMAP三年的温度图放置限制可能的原始非高斯水平。特别是,我们应用微扰公式的MF给约束通常的非线性耦合常数fNL。理论预测发现同意模拟CMB地图的MF包括辐射转移的全部影响。即使模拟图包括各种观测伪影,包括像素窗口函数、光束拖尾、不均匀噪声和测量掩模,该协议也非常好。因此,我们发现,这些解析公式可以直接应用于fNL的观测测量,而不依赖于非高斯模拟。考虑到WMAP中MF的面元-面元协方差,我们发现原始非高斯参数在95% C. L.时被限制在-70使用Q+V+W共同添加的映射。

英文摘要:

We present an analysis of the Minkowski Functionals (MFs) describing the WMAP three-year temperature maps to place limits on possible levels of primordial non-Gaussianity. In particular, we apply perturbative formulae for the MFs to give constraints on the usual non-linear coupling constant fNL. The theoretical predictions are found to agree with the MFs of simulated CMB maps including the full effects of radiative transfer. The agreement is also very good even when the simulation maps include various observational artifacts, including the pixel window function, beam smearing, inhomogeneous noise and the survey mask. We find accordingly that these analytical formulae can be applied directly to observational measurements of fNL without relying on non-Gaussian simulations. Considering the bin-to-bin covariance of the MFs in WMAP in a chi-square analysis, we find that the primordial non-Gaussianity parameter is constrained to lie in the range -70<fNL<91 at 95% C.L. using the Q+V+W co-added maps.

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