2010•arXiv (Cornell University)Open access
A Measurement of Cubic-Order Primordial Non-Gaussianity (g_{NL} and τ_{NL}) With WMAP 5-Year Data
Joseph Smidt, Alexandre Amblard, Asantha Cooray, Alan Heavens, D. Munshi, P. Serra
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Abstract
We measure two higher-order power spectra involving weighted cubic and squared temperature anisotropy maps from WMAP 5-year data to study the trispectrum generated by primordial non-Gaussianity. Using these measurements combined with Gaussian and noise simulations, we constrain the cubic order non-Gaussianity parameters τ_{NL}, and g_{NL}. With V+W-band data out to l_{max}=600, we find -7.4 < g_{\rm NL}/10^5 < 8.2 and -0.6 < τ_{\rm NL}/10^4 < 3.3 improving the previous COBE-based limit on τ_{\rm NL} < 10^8 nearly four orders of magnitude with WMAP. We find that the ratio of trispectrum to bispectrum amplitude as captured by the ratio of τ_{\rm Nl}/(6f_{\rm NL}/5)^2 ranges from -3 to 21 at the 95% confidence level.