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Testing models of inflation with CMB non-gaussianity

Astrophysics 2009-06-23 v1

Abstract

Two different predictions for the primordial curvature fluctuation bispectrum are compared through their effects on the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature fluctuations. The first has a local form described by a single parameter f_{NL}. The second is based on a prediction from the warm inflationary scenario, with a different dependence on wavenumber and a parameter f_{WI}. New expressions are obtained for the angular bispectra of the temperature fluctuations and for the estimators used to determine fNLf_{NL} and f_{WI}. The standard deviation of the estimators in an ideal experiment is roughly 5 times larger for f_{WI} than for f_{NL}. Using 3 year WMAP data gives limits -375<f_{WI}<36.8, but there is a possibility of detecting a signal for f_{WI} from the Planck satellite.

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@article{arxiv.0707.1647,
  title  = {Testing models of inflation with CMB non-gaussianity},
  author = {Ian G Moss and Chris M Graham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.1647},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures in ReVTeX

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