Abstract:
Measuring the three-point correlators of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies could help to get a handle on the level of non-Gaussianity present in the observational data sets and therefore would strongly constrain models of the early Universe. However, typically, the expected non-Gaussian signal is very small. Therefore, one has to face the problem of extracting it from the noise, in particular from the “cosmic variance” noise. For this purpose, one has to construct the best unbiased estimators for the three-point correlators that are needed for concrete detection of non-Gaussian features. In this article, we study this problem for both the CMB third moment and the CMB angular bispectrum. We emphasize that knowledge of the best estimator for the former does not permit one to infer the best estimator for the latter and vice versa. We present the corresponding best unbiased estimators in both cases and compute their corresponding cosmic variances. © 2000 The American Physical Society.
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Título: | Best unbiased estimators for the three-point correlators of the cosmic microwave background radiation |
Autor: | Gangui, A. |
Filiación: | Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, 1428, Argentina DARC, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon UMR 8629 CNRS, Meudon Cedex, 92195, France
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Año: | 2000
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Volumen: | 62
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Número: | 10
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Página de inicio: | 17
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.103004 |
Título revista: | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
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Título revista abreviado: | Phys Rev D Part Fields Gravit Cosmol
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ISSN: | 15507998
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Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_15507998_v62_n10_p17_Gangui |
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(2000)
. Best unbiased estimators for the three-point correlators of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 62(10), 17.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.103004---------- CHICAGO ----------
Gangui, A.
"Best unbiased estimators for the three-point correlators of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 62, no. 10
(2000) : 17.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.103004---------- MLA ----------
Gangui, A.
"Best unbiased estimators for the three-point correlators of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 62, no. 10, 2000, pp. 17.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.103004---------- VANCOUVER ----------
Gangui, A. Best unbiased estimators for the three-point correlators of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Phys Rev D Part Fields Gravit Cosmol. 2000;62(10):17.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.103004