The Microwave Background Bispectrum, Paper I: Basic Formalism
Astrophysics
2016-08-25 v2
Abstract
In this paper, we discuss the potential importance of measuring the CMB anisotropy bispectrum. We develop a formalism for computing the bispectrum and for measuring it from microwave background maps. As an example, we compute the bispectrum resulting from the 2nd order Rees-Sciama effect, and find that is undetectable with current and upcoming missions.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9811252,
title = {The Microwave Background Bispectrum, Paper I: Basic Formalism},
author = {David N. Spergel and David M. Goldberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9811252},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
18 Pages, 3 Postscript Figures; Minor changes in response to referee's report