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Testing models of inflation with cosmic microwave background non-Gaussianity

Ian G Moss and Christopher M Graham

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Two different predictions for the primordial curvature fluctuation bispectrum are compared through their effects on the cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations. The first has a local form described with a single parameter fNL. The second is based on a prediction from the warm inflationary scenario, with a different dependence on wavenumber and a parameter fWI. New expressions are obtained for the angular bispectra of the temperature fluctuations and for the estimators used to determine fNL and fWI. The standard deviation of the estimators in an ideal experiment is roughly 5 times larger for fWI than for fNL. Using three-year WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) data gives limits −375<fWI<36.8, but there is a possibility of detecting a signal for fWI from the Planck satellite.


Keywords

CMBR theory

inflation

 

E-print Number: 0707.1647

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PACS

98.70.Vc Background radiations

98.80.Cq Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe (including cosmic pancakes, cosmic strings, chaotic phenomena, inflationary universe, etc.)

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 11 (November 2007)

Received 24 August 2007, accepted for publication 15 October 2007

Published 6 November 2007



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