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On non-linear CMB temperature anisotropy from gravitational perturbations

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2010-12-13 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Non-linear CMB temperature anisotropies up to the third-order on large scales are calculated. On large scales and in the Sachs-Wolfe limit, we give the explicit expression for the observed temperature anisotropy in terms of the primordial curvature perturbation up to the third-order. We derived the final bispectrum and trispectrum of anisotropies and the corresponding non-linear parameters, in which the contributions to the observed non-Gaussianity from primordial perturbations and from the non-linear mapping from primordial curvature perturbation to the temperature anisotropy are transparently separated.

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@article{arxiv.1005.1219,
  title  = {On non-linear CMB temperature anisotropy from gravitational perturbations},
  author = {Xian Gao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.1219},
  year   = {2010}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures

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