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 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 . Instead it produces a non-zero value of . A combination of constraints lead to an allowed region in space. To produce the asymmetry with this term without a large value of 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