Gauge-Invariant Temperature Anisotropies and Primordial Non-Gaussianity
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We provide the gauge-invariant expression for large-scale cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations at second-order in perturbation theory. It enables to unambiguously define the nonlinearity parameter f_NL which is used by experimental collaborations to pin down the level of Non-Gaussianity in the temperature fluctuations. Furthermore, it contains a primordial term encoding all the information about the Non-Gaussianity generated at primordial epochs and about the mechanism which gave rise to cosmological perturbations, thus neatly disentangling the primordial contribution to Non-Gaussianity from the one caused by the post-inflationary evolution.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0407505,
title = {Gauge-Invariant Temperature Anisotropies and Primordial Non-Gaussianity},
author = {N. Bartolo and S. Matarrese and A. Riotto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0407505},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, LaTeX file. Revised to match the version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett