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Cosmological constraints from $\mu E$ cross-correlations

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2016-11-30 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We derive general expressions of the ClμXC^{\mu X}_l, the cross correlation function between the cosmic microwave background spectral μ\mu distortion and the linear perturbations in the cosmic microwave background such as the temperature perturbations and the polarizations. The cross correlations are known as new tests for the extremely squeezed shape of primordial non-Gaussianity, which is inaccessible through the direct observations of the temperature 3-point functions. Our formulae are applicable to the arbitrary combinations of the scalar and the tensor perturbations, and we discuss the potential for detecting these quantities. We provide signal-to-noise ratio of the μE\mu E as well as μT\mu T, based on an experiment like the Primordial Inflation Explorer. We also find the signal-to-noise ratio from the scale dependent nonlinearity. For instance, we show that fNLloc(k1,k2,k3)=(k1k2k3)1/3k01F0f^{\rm loc}_{\rm NL}(k_1,k_2,k_3)=\left(k_1k_2k_3\right)^{1/3}k_0^{-1}F_0 with k0=0.05Mpc1k_0=0.05{\rm Mpc}^{-1} can be detectable at 1σ\sigma level even for F0O(1)F_0 \sim \mathcal O(1).

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@article{arxiv.1607.00212,
  title  = {Cosmological constraints from $\mu E$ cross-correlations},
  author = {Atsuhisa Ota},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.00212},
  year   = {2016}
}

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20 pages

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