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Generating the cosmic microwave background power asymmetry with $g_{NL}$

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-07-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider a higher order term in the δN\delta N expansion for the CMB power asymmetry generated by a superhorizon isocurvature field fluctuation. The term can generate the asymmetry without requiring a large value of fNLf_{NL}. Instead it produces a non-zero value of gNLg_{NL}. A combination of constraints lead to an allowed region in fNLgNLf_{NL}-g_{NL} space. To produce the asymmetry with this term without a large value of fNLf_{NL} we find that the isocurvature field needs to contribute less than the inflaton towards the power spectrum of the curvature perturbation.

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@article{arxiv.1504.05736,
  title  = {Generating the cosmic microwave background power asymmetry with $g_{NL}$},
  author = {Zachary Kenton and David J. Mulryne and Steven Thomas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.05736},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure. Updated to match published version. Minor typographical corrections