Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/09/002
Keywords
non-gaussianity; cosmological parameters from CMBR; inflation; physics of the early universe
Funding
- JSPS [22340056]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan
- World Premier International Research Center Initiative, MEXT, Japan
- [23-5622]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22340056] Funding Source: KAKEN
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An optimal method to constrain the non-linearity parameter g(NL) of the local-type non-Gaussianity from CMB data is proposed. Our optimal estimator for g(NL) is separable and can be efficiently computed in real space. Combining the exact filtering of CMB maps with the full covariance matrix, our method allows us to extract cosmological information from observed data as much as possible and obtain a tighter constraint on g(NL) than previous studies. Applying our method to the WMAP 9-year data, we obtain the constraint g(NL) = (-3.3 +/- 2.2) x 10(5), which is a few times tighter than previous ones. We also make a forecast for PLANCK data by using the Fisher matrix analysis.
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