The Microwave Background Bispectrum, Paper I: Basic Formalism

Preprint

4 January 1999

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9811252

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the potential importance of measuring the CMB anisotropy bispectrum. We develop a formalism for computing the bispectrum and for measuring it from microwave background maps. As an example, we compute the bispectrum resulting from the 2nd order Rees-Sciama effect, and find that is undetectable with current and upcoming missions.

Keywords

BACKGROUND BISPECTRUM
MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
UPCOMING MISSIONS
BASIC FORMALISM
CMB ANISOTROPY
ORDER REES
BISPECTRUM

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Version 1, 1998-11-16, ArXiv
Version 2, 1999-01-04, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review D, 59 (10), 103001.

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