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Phase Mapping as a Powerful Diagnostic of Primordial Non-Gaussianity

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The identification and extraction of non-Gaussian signals is one of the main cosmological challenges facing future experimental measurements of the cosmic microwave background temperature pattern. We present a generalized statistical measure based on a novel technique representation of Fourier phases using the return map. We show that this method is both robust and powerful in comparison, for example, with morphological measures.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0208235,
  title  = {Phase Mapping as a Powerful Diagnostic of Primordial Non-Gaussianity},
  author = {Lung-Yih Chiang and Pavel Naselsky and Peter Coles},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0208235},
  year   = {2009}
}