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The Complete Bispectrum of COBE-DMR Four Year Maps

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We extend a previous bispectrum analysis of the COBE-DMR 4 year maps, allowing for the presence of correlations between all possible angular scales. We find that the non-Gaussian signal found earlier for bispectrum components including adjacent modes does not extend to triplets of modes with larger separations. Indeed for all separations Δ>1\Delta\ell >1 we find that the COBE-DMR data is very Gaussian. The implication seems to be that the previously detected non-Gaussian scale-scale correlation falls off very quickly with mode separation.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0010395,
  title  = {The Complete Bispectrum of COBE-DMR Four Year Maps},
  author = {H. B. Sandvik and J. Magueijo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0010395},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 5 figures