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We show that modified gravity presents distinctive nonlinear features on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies comparing with General Relativity (GR). We calculate the contribution to the CMB non-Gaussianity from nonlinear…

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We review two powerful methods to test the Gaussianity of the cosmic microwave background (CMB): one based on the distribution of spherical wavelet coefficients and the other on smooth tests of goodness-of-fit. The spherical wavelet…

We present a new tool for relating theory and experiment suited for non-Gaussian theories: non-Gaussian spectra. It does for non-Gaussian theories what the angular power spectrum $C_\ell$ does for Gaussian theories. We then show how…

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We compute the fully non-linear Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies on scales larger than the horizon at last-scattering in terms of only the curvature perturbation, providing a generalization of the linear Sachs-Wolfe effect at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Bartolo , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

We describe the subject of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) analysis - its past, present and future. The theory of Gaussian primary anisotropies, those arising from linear physics operating in the early Universe, is in reasonably good…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 J. Richard Bond , Robert G. Crittenden

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Anisotropies is a subject of intensive research in several fields of sciences. In this paper we start a systematic development of basic notions and theory in statistics according to the application for CMB.…

Applications · Statistics 2013-12-30 Gyorgy Terdik

Gaussianity is the very base for derivation of the cosmological parameters from the CMB angular power spectrum. Non-Gaussian signal, whether originated from experimental error or primordial source, could mimic extra power in the power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel Naselsky , Lung-Yih Chiang , Poul Olesen , Igor Novikov

Inflationary cosmologies predict Gaussian primordial fluctuations, but subsequent gravitational lensing of the CMB disturbs its Gaussianity. Knowledge of the specific signature of lensing is necessary to distinguish a lensed Gaussian sky…

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In the context of inflationary scenarios, the observed large angle anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature is believed to probe the primordial metric perturbations from inflation. Although the perturbations from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Somnath Bharadwaj , Dipak Munshi , Tarun Souradeep

We propose a fast and efficient bispectrum statistic for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies to constrain the amplitude of the primordial non-Gaussian signal measured in terms of the non-linear coupling parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Cabella , F. K. Hansen , M. Liguori , D. Marinucci , S. Matarrese , L. Moscardini , N. Vittorio

We consider the distribution of the non-Gaussian signal induced by weak lensing on the primary total intensity cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. Our study focuses on the three point statistics exploiting an harmonic analysis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabio Giovi , Carlo Baccigalupi , Francesca Perrotta

Searches for primordial gravitational waves have resulted in constraints in a large frequency range from a variety of sources. The standard Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) technique is to parameterise the tensor power spectrum in terms of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Thomas J. Clarke , Edmund J. Copeland , Adam Moss

Minkowski Functionals (MFs) are topological statistics that have become one of many standard tools used for investigating the statistical properties of cosmological random fields. They have found regular use in studies of departures from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-20 Geraint Pratten , Dipak Munshi

Upcoming stage 4 surveys, such as the Simons Observatory, LSST, and Euclid, are poised to measure weak gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and galaxies with unprecedented precision. While the power spectrum is the…

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We use South Pole Telescope data from 2008 and 2009 to detect the non-Gaussian signature in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) produced by gravitational lensing and to measure the power spectrum of the projected gravitational potential.…

We put forward a measure based on Gaussian steering to quantify the non-Markovianity of continuous-variable (CV) Gaussian quantum channels. We employ the proposed measure to assess and compare the non-Markovianity of a quantum Brownian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Massimo Frigerio , Samaneh Hesabi , Davood Afshar , Matteo G. A. Paris

Primordial gravitational waves could be non-Gaussian, just like primordial scalar perturbations. Although the tensor two-point function has thus-far remained elusive, the three-point function could, in principle, be large enough to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Maresuke Shiraishi

We use Minkowski Functionals to explore the presence of non-Gaussian signatures in simulated cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. Precisely, we analyse the non-Gaussianities produced from the angular power spectra emerging from a class…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Camila P. Novaes , Micol Benetti , Armando Bernui

We study different variants of the Gibbs sampler algorithm from the perspective of their applicability to the estimation of power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. These include approaches studied earlier in the…

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