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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/03/017
Keywords
physics of the early universe; cosmological perturbation theory; CMBR theory
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- ASI [I/016/07/0]
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The non-linear effects operating at the recombination epoch generate a non-Gaussian signal in the CMB anisotropies. Such a contribution is relevant because it represents a major part of the second-order radiation transfer function which must be determined in order to have a complete control of both the primordial and non-primordial part of non-Gaussianity in the CMB anisotropies. We provide an estimate of the level of non-Gaussianity in the CMB arising from the recombination epoch which shows up mainly in the equilateral configuration. We find that it causes a contamination to the possible measurement of the equilateral primordial bispectrum shifting the minimum detectable value of the non-Gaussian parameter f(NL)(equil) by Delta f(NL)(equil) = O(10) for an experiment like Planck.
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