Microwave background bispectrum. I. Basic formalism
- 23 April 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 59 (10) , 103001
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.59.103001
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
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