1999/06/18 by Licia Verde, Limin Wang, Alan Heavens +2 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Anisotropy #Bispectrum #Cosmic background radiation #Cosmic microwave background #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Microwave #Observational cosmology #Planck #Sky #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03191.x
published as Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 313 (2000) L141-L147 · 6 pages, 2 figures, submitted as a letter to MNRAS
arxiv created 1999/06/18 · openalex publication_date 2000/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure data will shortly improve dramatically with the Microwave Anisotropy Probe and Planck Surveyor, and the Anglo-Australian 2-Degree Field and Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It is therefore timely to ask which of the microwave background and large-scale structure will provide a better probe of primordial non-Gaussianity. In this paper we consider this question, using the bispectrum as a discriminating statistic. We consider several non-Gaussian models and find that in each case the microwave background will provide a better probe of primordial non-Gaussianity. Our results suggest that if microwave background maps appear Gaussian, then apparent deviations from Gaussian initial conditions in galaxy surveys can be attributed with confidence to the effects of biasing. We demonstrate this precisely for the spatial bispectrum induced by local non-linear biasing.