Angular Correlation Functions for Models with Logarithmic Oscillations
Abstract
There exist several theoretical motivations for primordial correlation functions (such as the power spectrum) to contain oscillations as a logarithmic function of comoving momentum k. While these features are commonly searched for in k-space, an alternative is to use angular space; that is, search for correlations between the directional vectors of observation. We develop tools to efficiently compute the angular correlations based on a stationary phase approximation and examine several example oscillations in the primordial power spectrum, bispectrum, and trispectrum. We find that logarithmically-periodic oscillations are essentially featureless and therefore difficult to detect using the standard correlator, though others might be feasible.
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@article{arxiv.1303.3499,
title = {Angular Correlation Functions for Models with Logarithmic Oscillations},
author = {Mark G. Jackson and Ben Wandelt and François Bouchet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.3499},
year = {2014}
}
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13 pages, 11 figures